Supply chains

Time to beef up agrifood supply chains

COVID-19 has exposed vulnerabilities in our global food systems, which have become designed around “just-in-time” principles to maximise efficiency. As we start to look at what life will be like after this pandemic, can we reconfigure our supply chains around resilience and sustainability to guard against the impact of future shocks?

From tracking cattle to tourists

Understanding Australia’s goods and people movement to save costs and target infrastructure investment.

Faster delivery, lower costs? The answer’s in TraNSIT

Taking product from farm to market in Australia can involve distances of hundreds of kilometres and high freight costs. A group of NSW and Queensland councils has turned to computer modelling to work out where local infrastructure bottlenecks are, and how they could be fixed.

Fingerprinting wine to prevent fraud

Wine fraud is a threat to Australia’s wine industry, but a technique to fingerprint wine could help protect the industry.

On the road to mapping a more efficient transport future for Australian agriculture

What truck drivers do in clicks, scientists have done in data – tracking the great distances travelled by Australian produce from farm gate to market. It’s all to make for better infrastructure investment and make those long journeys more efficient and reliable.

The answer’s complex: Supply chain adaptation to climate change

Like it or not, climate change has introduced new levels of unpredictability into the business of producing and transporting goods to market.

Modelling a more efficient future for cattle transport

The new TRANSIT tool developed by CSIRO is identifying ways to cut the costs of transporting cattle—offering solutions that would reduce the vast distances travelled and the numbers of trucks on the road. The tool will be applied beyond the livestock industry for use more broadly in the agricultural and logistics sectors.