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RFID-Enabled Traceability in the Food Supply Chain
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Purpose
This paper aims to study the main requirements of traceability and examine how the technology of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology can address these requirements. It further seeks to outline both an information data model and a system architecture that will make traceability feasible and easily deployable across a supply chain.
Design/methodology/approach
The design research approach is followed, associating traceability requirements to a proposed system design.
Findings
The technological approach used has great implications in relation to the cost associated with a traceability system and the ease of its deployment.
Research limitations/implications
Validation of the proposed information data model and system architecture is required through practical deployment in different settings.
Practical implications
The paper provides practitioners with insight on how RFID technology can meet traceability requirements and what technological approach is more appropriate.
Originality/value
Food quality has become an important issue in the last decade. However, achieving end‐to‐end traceability across the supply chain is currently quite a challenge from a technical, a co‐ordination and a cost perspective. The paper contributes by suggesting a specific technological approach, exploiting the new possibilities provided by RFID technology, to address these issues.
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... The authors first provide an overview of the challenges faced by the food industry in terms of traceability, such as the need to track products through multiple stages of the supply chain and the need to respond quickly to food safety incidents. They then propose RFID technology as a solution to these challenges [8]. The article describes the benefits of RFID technology, such as its ability to provide real-time visibility into the supply chain and its potential to improve traceability accuracy and efficiency. ...
... The article describes the benefits of RFID technology, such as its ability to provide real-time visibility into the supply chain and its potential to improve traceability accuracy and efficiency. The authors also discuss the potential barriers to the adoption of RFID technology, such as the cost of implementing the technology and concerns about data privacy [8]. ...
The food sector is crucial in providing the basic needs to sustain a range of human behaviors and activities. Supply chain is one of the important IoT application areas. IoT solutions support the monitoring, analysis, and management of the food sector in real-time. Through the application of IoT, the routing process of food products is greatly improved. The system is composed of a set of connected nodes that form a network of sensor nodes with the integration of RFID and IoT technology. The RFID tags associated with the food products enable the detection of the location, temperature and other parameters of the food products. The IoT platform provides real-time tracking and monitoring of the food products from the source to the destination. The task of the Food supply chain is to promote efficiency, transparency so that suppliers, clients, and partners may receive crucial information about the travel history movement along with quality of their products. Traceability plays a critical component for ensuring food safety, protecting public health, and providing assurance that food is free from contamination. By tracking the movement of food through the supply chain, businesses can ensure that food is sourced from approved suppliers.
... The movement of agri-food products through the production, supply and distribution stages, is known as traceability costs. Kelepouris et al. (2007) indicated that traceability costs are one of the costs involved in the product tracking process both from the point of origin to the point of consumption and the other way around. Traceability costs in the agri-food production process are very important because they are related to the short life of agri-food products. ...
Purpose
This study aimed to develop the integration of the multiperiod production-distribution model in a closed-loop supply chain involving carbon emission and traceability. The developed model was for agricultural food (agri-food) products, considering the reverse flow of food waste from the disposal center (composting center) to producers.
Findings
The results indicate that integrating the production and distribution model considering food waste recycling provides low carbon emissions in lower total costs. The sensitivity analysis also found that there are trade-offs between production and distribution rate and food waste levels on carbon emission and traceability.
Research limitations/implications
This study focuses on the mathematical modeling of a multiperiod production-distribution formulation for a closed-loop supply chain.
Originality/value
The model of the agri-food closed-loop supply chain in this study that considers food recycling and carbon emissions would help stakeholders involved in the agri-food supply chain to reduce food waste and carbon emissions.
The rise in milk adulteration and contamination, fraud incidents and improper handling necessitates effective traceability systems in the Indian dairy industry. Thus, this review investigates current trends, associated challenges, traceability and its fundamental applications to address food safety and quality issues. The paper covers the evolution of milk adulteration and contamination detection techniques from conventional to emerging. Such information and analytical technologies can improve transparency and safety in the dairy industry by implementing effective traceability systems. This review will explore the challenges and future opportunities associated with the current situation in the Indian dairy industry.
Purpose
This paper aims to present an emergent framework that proposes the strategic importance of supply chain (SC) traceability beyond the traditional role in supporting product safety, recalls and sustainability initiatives.
Design/methodology/approach
A grounded theory (GT) approach with 22 in-depth interviews with managers from 10 countries/territories and 3 different echelons of the food SC is employed to arrive at the strategic traceability framework and framework's propositions.
Findings
The framework suggests that traceability can sometimes help expose and modify firms' core and non-core SC capabilities and provide an opportunity to align them better with SC strategies. This alignment may require a complementary execution of human coordination and the adoption of technological traceability components.
Practical implications
The research suggests that firms may be able to extract greater value from the firms' traceability investments. While traceability continues to serve the key purposes of preventing and mitigating the risks of recalls, this can sometimes illuminate sustained business growth opportunities.
Originality/value
The study extends traceability beyond a means to meet the requirements of product safety, recalls and sustainability. Rather, this study establishes traceability's role in exposing and aligning firms' capabilities for business gain and not merely recall risk mitigation. This reframing of the premise for traceability can invigorate both research and practice on the subject of traceability.
In recent years, blockchain technology has gained a lot of attention for its various applications in various fields, with agriculture being one of the most promising. The use of blockchain in agriculture covers areas such as food security, information systems, agribusiness, finance, crop certification, and insurance. In developing countries, many farmers are struggling to earn a living, while in developed countries, the agriculture industry is thriving. This disparity is largely due to poor supply chain management, which can be improved using blockchain technology. Blockchain provides a permanent, sharable, and auditable record of products, improving product traceability, authenticity, and legality in a cost-effective manner. This chapter aims to compile all existing research on blockchain technology in agriculture and analyze the methodologies and contributions of different blockchain technologies to the agricultural sector. It also highlights the latest trends in blockchain research in agriculture and provides guidelines for future research.
The emerging fourth industrial revolution is revolutionizing the food industry, which has historically been plagued by food waste and contamination. Several internet-of-things (IoT) technologies have been proposed for optimizing processes and reducing costs while improving health conditions and safety in food consumption. Among them, radiofrequency identification (RFID) has been considered from the beginning a key instrument, especially in food logistics and management. Many contributions and case studies from academia and industry demonstrated the strategic role and the impact on existing and future paradigms of food. The literature analysis in the present work suggests a growing interest in RFID to implement optimization procedures for food management and control. This review describes RFID employment in three pillars of the Fourth Generation of the Food Industry (FI4.0): Logistics, Sensing, and Green RFID. The logistics one comprises the most mature applications for RFID, such as cold-chain monitoring or product tracking. Food sensing, instead, is currently the most attractive research area for both industry and academia, so researchers are focusing their attention on detecting physical and chemical parameters through direct and indirect sensing approaches. Furthermore, the ever-increasing amount of electronic waste motivated the research community to provide sustainable tags to establish Green RFID devices. According to this literature review, RFID can foster the fourth industrial revolution in food, especially considering the emerging synergy with artificial intelligence and biodegradable/resorbable materials.
O controle de medicamentos em hospitais é crítico para garantir a sua disponibilidade, gerenciar custos, aumentar a precisão e segurança dos pacientes. Pesquisas relacionam o controle de medicamentos à redução de perdas, menor risco de obsolescência e melhor gestão de custos, permitindo identificar medicamentos adulterados, maior precisão na dosagem prescrita, melhorar o gerenciamento de estoques, padronizar e automatizar processos manuais, reduzir erros e aumentar a produtividade. A literatura trata o controle de medicamentos com o uso de tecnologias como códigos de barras e RFID para rastreá-los em qualquer ponto da cadeia de suprimentos, que se tornam mais precisos quando conectados aos sensores sem fio e ao GPS através da Internet das Coisas (IoT). Este artigo visa estudar o uso da IoT no controle de medicamentos, sob a perspectiva dos benefícios entregues às farmácias e suas influências no desempenho organizacional. Foram entrevistados profissionais de três hospitais privados localizados em São Paulo. Como o tema IoT é recente, principalmente no segmento hospitalar, benefícios e impactos reais no desempenho organizacionais podem ser alcançados em aplicações especificas e desde que a IoT faça parte de um ecossistema composto por Inteligência Artificial, Cloud e Analytics, integrando todos os atores da cadeia de medicamentos hospitalares.
Supply chain traceability refers to product tracking from the source to customers, demanding transparency, authenticity, and high efficiency. In recent years, blockchain has been widely adopted in supply chain traceability to provide transparency and authenticity, while the efficiency issue is understudied. In practice, as the numerous product records accumulate, the time-and storage-efficiencies will decrease remarkably. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first work studying the efficiency issue in blockchain-based supply chain traceability. Compared to the traditional method, which searches the records stored in a single chunk sequentially, we replicate the records in multiple chunks and employ parallel search to boost the time efficiency. However, allocating the record searching primitives to the chunks with maximized parallelization ratio is challenging. To this end, we model the records and chunks as a bipartite graph and solve the allocation problem using a maximum matching algorithm. The experimental results indicate that the time overhead can be reduced by up to
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Η αλυσίδα εφοδιασμού τροφίμων (ΑΕΤ) περιλαμβάνει διάφορους εμπλεκόμενους φορείς, γεγονότα και στάδια παραγωγής, ξεκινώντας από την πρωτογενή παραγωγή έως τη μεταποίηση, το εμπόριο, τη συσκευασία, τη διανομή και την τελική κατανάλωση. Λόγω των σημαντικών διαφορών στη διαπραγματευτική ισχύ των εμπλεκόμενων φορέων, η ΑΕΤ είναι ιδιαίτερα ευάλωτη σε αθέμιτες εμπορικές πρακτικές (ΑθΕΠ), με τους μεμονωμένους γεωργούς/κτηνοτρόφους να παρουσιάζονται ως οι πιο αδύναμοι παράγοντες της ΑΕΤ. Ως εκ τούτου, μικροί και μεσαίου μεγέθους παραγωγοί, συχνά αναφέρουν παραβιάσεις από τους ισχυρότερους εμπορικούς τους εταίρους, όπως τις μεταποιητικές επιχειρήσεις και τις επιχειρήσεις λιανικού εμπορίου. Ωστόσο, οι ΑθΕΠ δύναται να εμφανιστούν σε οποιοδήποτε στάδιο της ΑΕΤ μεταξύ των διάφορων φορέων και ενδέχεται να έχουν σημαντικές αρνητικές επιπτώσεις σε όλους τους φορείς εμπορίας, στους καταναλωτές, αλλά και στο περιβάλλον (π.χ. σπατάλη τροφίμων). Οι στόχοι της παρούσας μελέτης ήταν: (1) να εντοπίσει τις ΑθΕΠ που υφίστανται στην ΑΕΤ της Κύπρου, (2) να αξιολογήσει τις επιπτώσεις τους στους εμπλεκόμενους φορείς, και (3) να παράσχει κατευθυντήριες γραμμές που θα βοηθήσουν στη μεταφορά της σχετικής Οδηγίας της ΕΕ στην εθνική νομοθεσία. Απ’ όσο γνωρίζουμε, αυτή είναι η πρώτη προσπάθεια που πραγματοποιείται σε επίπεδο Κράτους Μέλους (ΚΜ) για τον εντοπισμό των ΑθΕΠ στην ΑΕΤ.
This paper explores the applications and future commercial impacts of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Its objective is to summarize the ways in which organizations and academics are thinking about these technologies and to stimulate strategic thinking about their possible uses and implications. It first provides an overview of this technology and how it works. Then it explores the surprisingly wide variety of current applications of RFID. Next it looks at several classes of potential RFID applications and how these might affect how organizations work. Finally, it examines the cost and implementation considerations of this technology. The paper concludes that RFID is a viable technology with many possible applications. However, only some of the impacts on organizations and society can be anticipated at present.
Discusses the restoration of consumer confidence in the Belgian meat industry through Sanitel, a traceability system that tracks products through the entire supply chain. It is a prerequisite to an effective supply chain and quality management. Discusses the process in relation to the poultry meat industry in Belgium.
Although government and business interest in tracking and tracing has grown enormously over the last decade, a clear and coherent overview of the topic is still lacking and is not found in (logistics) literature. This article presents a structure for development and contemporary practices of tracking and tracing. The development structure is conceptualised by three supply-chain layers: item coding (the physical layer), information architecture (the information layer); and planning and control (the control layer). On behalf of tracking and tracing, the layers represent different levels of supply-chain integration. The conceptualisation is derived from similar ideas found in literature on supply-chain management. From a scientific point of view, the structure provides a coherent and systematic organisation of tracking and tracing concepts. From the viewpoint of business administration, the structure facilitates the determination of the scope of tracking and tracing application(s), which is of management value.
The dairy industry is under pressure to improve product security, implement efficient risk management and rapid response capabilities, and manage quality ‘from trough to table’ to achieve full, verifiable traceability. In order to invest proactively in the future of the industry, individual processors must reassess their handling of quality and traceability data for strategic and competitive success, make appropriate physical configuration and operational adjustments, and deploy readily available technological tools to meet legislative and consumer demands, enhance product quality and increase operational efficiency and profits.
The previous discussion assumes that all the technical barriers regarding the application of RFID have been overcome, and that RF-tags have been introduced on all or a big proportion of consumer goods. However, this assumption is still far from reality, as technical barriers have not been totally overcome yet, especially when considering large-scale implementations, and standards are still evolving to support the wide adoption of RFID technology across the industry.
While research is progressing fast on the standards and technology front, there is an ever increasing concern about consumer privacy relating to the use of RF-tags on consumer goods, which has recently led companies like Benetton and Wal-Mart to temporarily shirk RFID-at-consumer-level pilots (McGinity, 2004). Analysts predict that while four or five years will pass before consumers are directly affected by RFID, privacy will be a major problem, if it isn’t addressed up-front. These concerns, in combination with the lower costs associated with introducing RF-tags on product cases and pallets instead of consumer units, currently lead the industry to implementing warehouse applications in the first round. Eventually, privacy concerns will be overcome, as has happened during the initial introduction of barcode technology several decades ago, allowing companies to adopt advanced RFID applications and smarter collaboration practices. This perspective opens up many new directions for research and development in this area, relating both to technology and the many different business aspects associated with it. The work presented in this paper is a first attempt towards this direction.
Traceability in food manufacturing can range from in-house traceability in production plants to traceability in whole or part of the production chain from raw material to consumer, and descriptors of the product and its history can be few or many as decided. Well thought-out traceability systems are fundamental to achieving optimal benefits from quality control, production control and for fulfilling consumer demands etc. In order to facilitate the discussion of a traceability strategy in food industries this Viewpoint outlines the fundamental theoretical issues of traceability systems and presents a more practical discussion of its extent.
Facing many food safety crises, like BSE or foot-and-mouth disease, food companies try to limit incurred risk and to reassure consumers. So today, the point is not only to trace the products efficiently but also to minimize recalls and the number of batches constituting a given finished product. The problem studied concerns a sausage manufacturing process in a French food company. It tries to minimize the quantity of recalls when products are characterized by a 3-level “disassembling and assembling” bill of material.Such a “dispersion problem”, encountered in the food industry, has been modelled, solved and experimented. A mathematical MILP model is proposed and the results of experiments obtained with LINGO software are presented.