Alternative designs of perishable product supply chains (see the redesign strategies in
Section 2.3) can be simulated, visualised, and analysed. ALADINTM adds the indicators
product quality or product freshness (remaining keeping quality and product waste) and
energy use and CO2 emissions to classical performance indicators such as transportation
costs, stock levels, and delivery reliability (e.g., Gunasekaran et al. 2000). In this way,
ALADINTM helps the decision maker, to trade-off logistics costs and service (product
quality, sustainability and availability), when assessing specific (re)designs of the FSC.