L'audit logistique - Application à une société du secteur agricole. Cas de la société Buttiens Fruits.

Abstract

Since the extension of the Schengen area and especially the entry of Poland, the competition has become fiercer in the agriculture sector. Belgian small companies and farmers have to increase their efficiency to deal with this growing competition. As bigger enterprises, they may need to have a better control on their logistics aspects, in order to increase their production performances, which are evaluated through indicators. In order to help big companies, several logistics assessments have been developed by logistics specialists. However, these have not been studied for small enterprises, and even less for farmers and agricultural companies. The present study tries to use and adapt one of those assessments with a double purpose: check the possibility and the consistency of this sort of assessment within this kind of company, and also see if it can help in the identification of improvement methods. This paper is based on the case study of Buttiens Fruits s.a., operating in apples and pears cultivation and commercialization.