Decision support system to assign food price rebates on the basis of quality decline

• Autor(a) principal: Maciel, Vinicius Biasutti Pitol
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Matos, Cláudia, Lima, Tânia M., Gaspar, Pedro Dinis, Santos, Fernando Charrua
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/10349
• topic: Food Waste; SME; Pricing; Mathematical modeling; Decision Support System

In order to reduce food waste, fruits and vegetables in special, in small and medium markets sizes, caused by loss of quality at the end of shelf life, an appropriate pricing method was created to maximize profit of seller. The method it was based on an acquisition of primary data, through questionnaires appropriate to the theme, and, subsequently, these primary data was used for mathematical modeling using a pricing dynamic method. As a last step this work, was development a spreadsheet application, where the seller can found a ideal point of order, size of stock and best price to sell. This way, using the application, the goal of reduction of food waste in fruit products is expected.