Logistic platforms for fresh produce: the case of Samazan.

摘要

This paper describes a project to develop a logistic platform, specialized in fresh produce, located in Samazan (near Bordeaux), France. This platform aims to regroup orders coming mainly from retailers and for which transport to the consumption areas requires the shipment of complete truck loads (26 pallets of 100 cm x 120 cm). At the present time, this zone is served by five transport firms functioning in competition, each separately using their own means of regrouping. The project regroups the five platforms. A methodology using a commodity system approach associated with standard cost analysis demonstrates high efficiency gains (around 15 million F per year only in fixed costs). Transport firms agree with this outcome but the project is stillunder discussion. The reasons are due to managerial problems rather than technical or organizational: the strategies of the five transporters are too different and they refuse to finance a public platform. However, the concentration of transport firms and the appearance of a comite de bassin (set of producer organizations instituted by the new CMO) (Regulation 2200/96) risk quickly to change the market structure.