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Since 2003 Orlando Wyndham Group and CSIRO have worked in partnership to scope, develop and deploy innovative decision support technologies in Orlando Wyndham's grape and wine supply network. The shared supply network goal is to maximise the value that is realised from material and intellectual assets in the supply network. A prime example of the partnership's results is a system for simultaneously planning the harvesting of grapes and the intake of these grapes into wineries. Harvesting and grape intake require that the operations of grape growers, harvester operators, grape transporters and wineries are tightly coordinated, resilient to disruptions and can adapt to unplanned events. Assistance from computerised decision support is necessary if coordination and adaptability is to be achieved repeatedly and reliably throughout the grape harvesting season, and this decision support must account for …