Agriculture plays an important role in sustaining all human activities. Major challenges such
as overpopulation, competition for resources poses a threat to the food security of the planet …

Over the years, several companies have emerged as exemplary of “best practices” in supply
chain management; for example, Wal-Mart is frequently cited as using unique strategies to …

Waste stemmed from inappropriate quality control and excessive inventories is a major
challenge for perishable food management in grocery retail chains. Improvement of visibility …

Managing uncertainty is a main challenge within supply chain management. Therefore, it is
expected that those supply chain planning methods which do not include uncertainty obtain …

Global supply chains are vulnerable towards different types of risks and are dynamically
expanding with the increase in globalisation. Costs are associated with every risk factor that …

Managing perishability may represent a remarkable problem in supply chain management
of a varied set of industries. In fact, perishability can influence, for example, productivity or …

With large volume of product flows and complex supply chain processes, more data than
ever before is being generated and collected in supply chains through various tracking and …

The food industry has been under pressure regarding improving food safety, implementing
efficient risk management, and managing quality 'from farm to fork'. Individual parties in a …

The value of perishable products is most affected by the time delays in a supply chain. A
major issue is how to integrate the existing practices in production, inventory holding and …

Traceability has become an essential business function to consistently supply quality and
safe food products to consumers. However, it has been not rare that the efforts in traceability …