Objective The purpose of the project is to provide recommendations for the development of internationally competitive milk supply chains in Central and Eastern European countries. They will be made from an evolutionary analysis that will consider the demands of a fa st progress from a centrally-planned to a market-led economy, which will soon be required to compete on quality, safety and value at a par with the Western European supply chain. This objective will be served by a systematic approach that will deploy cutti ng-edge methods of designing supply chains and enterprise resource planning. These provide comprehensive benchmarking tools to effectively pinpoint the impact of various organisational strategies of the supply chain in its distribution of costs and value. This is supplemented by quality and safety best practices suitable for the unique, perishable nature of milk. The project deliverables will support policy-making and strategy decisions to: ensure safety and quality of raw milk in the context of securing pu blic health at competitive costs; optimise the value distribution and improve the efficiency of the supply chain of raw milk to dairy processing in a market-oriented context; cultivate closer cooperation among the stakeholders involved in the agro-dairy se ctor in an enlarged European context; identify strategies to facilitate the evolution of the supply chain of new accession countries safeguarding value and wealth creation in rural economies; identify required scientific knowledge. The work plan comprises: international workshop to develop a blueprint for the benchmarking analysis; missions of the team in countries representative of the various stages of development from centralised to market-led supply chains, gathering data and dissemenating the project t hrough workshops; comparative and evolutionary analysis of the milk supply chains of these countries versus an EL) cutting edge example; elaboration of recommendations and dissemination of the conclusions. Fields of science agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedairy Keywords supply chain management value optimisation Programme(s) FP6-FOOD - Food Quality and Safety: Thematic priority 5 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) FOOD-2002-T0 - Realising ERA objectives - Promotion of SME participation - Stimulating international co-operation - Linking with Candidate Countries - Supporting policy development - Stimulating exploitation. FOOD-2002-T1 - Total food chain: Food from low input and organic production systems: Ensuring the safety and improving quality along the whole chain Call for proposal FP6-2002-FOOD-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme SSA - Specific Support Action Coordinator WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITEIT Address Costerweg 50 Wageningen Netherlands See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Western road Cork See on map ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE GENIE DES SYSTEMES INDUSTRIELS - INSTITUTE NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE DE LORRAINE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rue bastien lepage 8 Nancy See on map VYSOKA-SKOLA CHEMICKO-TECHNOLOGICKA (INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY) Czechia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Technicka 5 Dejvice (prague) See on map WARSAW AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY Poland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Nowoursynowska 166 Warszawa See on map UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRONOMICE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA - BUCHARESTI Romania EU contribution € 0,00 Address Bdul marasti, 59 sector 1 Bucharest See on map EDINBURGH DIRECT AID Bosnia and Herzegovina EU contribution € 0,00 Address Mehmeda mujezinovica 4 Bihac See on map
