Brightside Produce : tackling limited healthy food access through produce distribution /
This case study focuses on inventory management and the application of the newsvendor inventory model to provide recommendations for BrightSide Produce, a produce distributor that delivers fresh fruits and vegetables to its network of partner stores located in underserved areas of San Diego County,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
NeilsonJournals Publishing,
2024.
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| Series: | SAGE Business cases.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This case study focuses on inventory management and the application of the newsvendor inventory model to provide recommendations for BrightSide Produce, a produce distributor that delivers fresh fruits and vegetables to its network of partner stores located in underserved areas of San Diego County, CA.1 It highlights the challenges and community impacts of limited access to affordable healthy food in these areas ad describes the approach BrightSide Produce used to address them. Students are presented with questions that require them to exercise newsvendor model calculations, test their intuition, and compare financially optimal inventory policies with BrightSide Produce's current policies. The case study concludes with open questions about addressing limited healthy food access in underserved communities. An extensive teaching note provides materials for teaching the newsvendor model, including detailed explanations of all calculations that students are asked to perform, along with an approach to structuring the classroom discussion. A companion spreadsheet for instructors contains all formulas and solutions. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781071931974 1071931970 |