## 4.5 Learning

Learning for Logistics

1. What are in general the most important logistic costs?

2. Focused factories (a factory that supplies its products internationally to a wide market and focuses on a limited segment of the product assortment) have an impact on the important trade-off between cost and delivery lead time. Make a list of the advantages and disadvantages of focused factories.

3. Give four arguments for processing manure centrally and four arguments for processing manure decentral at farmers level.

4. Why are pre-processing activities mostly executed in the area of origin?

5. What are the most important cost trade-offs in the biobased supply chain? Give an example.

6. Mention which aspects have to be researched to get sustainable, economically profitable logistic biomass chains.

7. What are the most important differences between traditional food supply chains and biobased supply chains?

8. Mention the most important logistical challenges in designing a biobased supply chain.

9. Firstly read this article: (http://www.knnadvies.nl/user_files/downloads/13/Artikel%20LC%2022112013.pdf)

10. Draw the supply chain

11. What are the logistic challenges in this chain?