Identifying Business-to-Business Unfair Trading Practices in the Food Supply Chain: The case of Cyprus

New Medit ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marinos Markou ◽  
Andreas Stylianou ◽  
Marianthi Giannakopoulou ◽  
Georgios Adamides
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
State Level ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Enforcement Policy ◽  
Monitoring And Enforcement

Unfair Trading Practices (UTPs) between businesses in the food supply chain have a significant impact on the various stakeholders involved, and on the environment. So far, no attempt has been made at the Member State level for the identification of UTPs in the food supply chain and their impact on the relevant stakeholders. This study drew on this gap and attempted to identify the UTPs that exist in the Cypriot food supply chain, assess their impact on the involved stakeholders and provide guidelines that will assist the transposition of EU relevant Directive to the national law. To achieve this goal, the study was based on a quantitative survey of a representative sample of businesses using a specific questionnaire. The results showed that particular UTPs do appear in the food supply chain with a different frequency, while the majority of businesses have been victims of UTPs in the last five years. Notably, the estimated cost of UTPs as a percentage of the business annual turnover is considered important ranging from 5.7% for retailers to 31.9% for farmers. Thus, most participants agree that UTPs in the agricultural food sector should be regulated by national legislation. We argue that the national legislation for UTPs should be a mix of policies that integrate private, administrative and judicial methods of monitoring and enforcement. Policy and decision makers should seek to reinforce the role and the bargaining power of small businesses in the food supply chain. This might be accomplished through the development of efficient producers’ organizations, short food supply chains, interbranch organizations and strategic partnerships.

Alternative (Shorter) Food Supply Chains and Specialist Livestock Products in the Scottish–English Borders

10.1068/a3717 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 823-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Ilbery ◽  
Damian Maye
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Chains ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Hybrid Spaces ◽  
Conceptual Distinction ◽  
Livestock Products

In this paper findings are presented from survey work conducted with producers of specialist livestock products in the Scottish–English borders. Using supply-chain diagrams, the paper highlights how specialist livestock businesses operate individual or customised supply chains. The heterogeneity of surveyed producer initiatives throws into question both the simple conceptual distinction drawn between the labels ‘conventional’ and ‘alternative’ and also what is meant by a ‘short’ food supply chain. The starting point of the specialist food chain is clearly not the point of production but rather a series of upstream supply links—as is found in conventional food chains. Likewise, ‘alternative’ producers are regularly obliged, or choose, to ‘dip in and out’ of different conventional nodes downstream of the business, such as abattoirs, processors, and wholesalers. In practice, delimitations between ‘alternative’ and ‘conventional’ food supply chains are often blurred and are better characterised as ‘hybrid spaces’.

Blockchain-Based Food Supply Chain Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-171
Author(s):  
Dhana Srinithi Srinivasan ◽  
Karpagam Manavalan ◽  
Soundarya R. ◽  
Thamizhi S. I.
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Payment Mechanisms

Blockchain is an emerging technology that is based on the concept of distributed ledgers. It allows for pervasive transactions among different parties and eliminates the need for third-party intermediaries. Several of blockchain's characteristics make it suitable for use in the agriculture sector. Some of the potential applications of blockchain include efficient management of the food supply chain and value-based payment mechanisms. The products of agriculture are usually the inputs for a multi-actor distributed supply chain, in which case the consumer is usually the final client. The food chain involves several actors including farmers, shipping companies, distributors, and groceries. This makes the entire system to be distributed with multiple actors playing different roles throughout the chain. This currently used system is inefficient and unreliable in various aspects. This project aims to leverage blockchain technology to solve and address discrepancies involved in food supply chains.

Research on RFID Application in the Food Supply Chain

2012 ◽  
Vol 253-255 ◽  
pp. 1567-1570
Author(s):  
Xiao Lin ◽  
Wei Long Gao
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Critical Control Points ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

With the development of the information technology, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has become a hot topic in the fields of manufacturing and logistics. Meanwhile, food security becomes a worldwide problem. Food hazards can appear at any stage of global food supply chains, making it essential to define critical control points to capture the data about ingredients, manufacture and dates-certain, and provide it in a transparent manner to supply chain participants and consumers. In this article, I will analyze the current food supply chain situation and promote the literature review of RFID application in the food supply chain. And then the article will explore the questions and future research on RFID application in the food supply chain.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic Is a Wake-Up Call for Sustainable Local Food Supply Chains: Evidence from Green Restaurants in the USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9234
Author(s):  
Omar Alsetoohy ◽  
Baker Ayoun ◽  
Mahmoud Abou-Kamar
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Destination Branding ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Sustainability Practices

The COVID-19 outbreak has forced customers to shift their food habits to more locally grown products. Therefore, restaurants have begun to provide local food, which is reflected in “farm to fork” or “locally-sourced” or “farm to table” restaurants. Thus, purchasing sustainable food, specifically local food products, has become one of the most salient sustainability practices in restaurants. Therefore, this study seeks to further explore the influences of the Sustainable Local Food Supply Chain (SLFSC) of green fine-dining restaurants on tourist food experiences and destination branding in the USA. Data were analyzed using the partial least square (PLS) technique of a sample of 232 respondents. The findings of this study showed positive impacts of all sustainability dimensions on most consumption values of tourists (i.e., emotional, epistemic, health, taste/quality, etc.). The findings indicated that each sustainability dimension and overall sustainability of the local food supply chain had strong positive effects on destination branding. Finally, tourist food experiences in totality mediated the relationship between the overall Sustainable Local Food Supply Chain and destination branding. This study contributes to the existing literature by developing and validating a scale to measure the sustainability practices of local food supply chains in restaurants to fill this gap in the literature. Additionally, the findings have intimate important theoretical and practical implications.

scholarly journals Food Supply Chain Disruptions Owing to Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-103
Author(s):  
Anupam Saxena ◽  
Preetam Suman
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Research Protocol ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Supply Chain Disruptions ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Selection Of

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that food supply chains are the most critical component of economic and human activities. It has also created a lot of interest among researchers, practitioners and policymakers to study the significant challenges of the food supply chain caused by the pandemic. Therefore this work wanted to investigate the critical supply chain challenges due to Covid-19 with the help of a systematic literature review of well-established articles published in interdisciplinary journals. The selection of thirty one papers was made through a research protocol that helped select and identify research papers which were coded with the help of qualitative software Atlasti 9.0 to study which supply chain challenge amongst disruption, forecasting and inventory was most prominently studied in the literature. Results of software coding revealed that disruption was coded 170 times whereas forecasting 10 times and inventory 37 times as challenges of food Supply Chain Management (SCM). Therefore, it was concluded that most of the researchers considered disruption as one of the significant food supply chain challenges. Further coding also revealed that lockdown and labour related issues were the primary reasons for food supply chain disruption.

scholarly journals Agri-Food 4.0 and Innovations: Revamping the Supply Chain Operations

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Vasavi Dadi ◽  
Suryadevara Ram Nikhil ◽  
Rahul S Mor ◽  
Tripti Agarwal ◽  
Sapna Arora
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Block Chain ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Food Wastage

Abstract The agri-food sector contributes significantly to economic and social advancements globally despite numerous challenges such as food safety and security, demand and supply gaps, product quality, traceability, etc. Digital technologies offer effective and sustainable ways to these challenges through reduced human interference and improved data-accuracy. Innovations led by digital transformations in the agri-food supply chains (AFSCs) are the main aim of ‘Agri-Food 4.0’. This brings significant transformations in the agri-food sector by reducing food wastage, real-time product monitoring, reducing scalability issues, etc. This paper presents a systematic review of the innovations in the agri-food for digital technologies such as internet-of-things, artificial intelligence, big data, RFID, robotics, block-chain technology, etc. The employment of these technologies from the ‘farm to fork’ along AFSC emphasizes a review of 159 articles solicited from different sources. This paper also highlights digitization in developing smart, sensible, and sustainable agri-food supply chain systems.

scholarly journals Empirical “first-filter” test for the existence of buyer power in the Finnish food supply chain

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyrki Niemi ◽  
Xing Liu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Competitive Behaviour ◽  
Filter Test ◽  
Buyer Power ◽  
Oligopsony Power

Buyer power and competition policy in food supply chains has emerged as an important economic issue and a highly sensitive item on the policy agenda around the world. In Finland, the increasing concentration of the distribution sector and processing industry has raised concern over the existence and gradual growth of buyer power in these sectors. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible existence of buyer power in the Finnish food supply chain. More specifically, we follow an approach used by Lloyd et al. (2009) to measure oligopsony power among the Finnish food industry and retailers against farmers. The results suggest that the spread between producer and retailer prices in Finland is not consistent with perfectly competitive behaviour, and might thus be caused, at least as a candidate amongst other factors, by the existence of oligopsony power in the Finnish food supply chain.

scholarly journals The investigation of key factors for successful implementation of sustainable halal food supply chain management

Food Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 221-228
Author(s):  
A. Azhar ◽  
Y.T. Tu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Halal Food

Halal food plays an important role in the economic development in various countries. However, halal food supply chains could threaten the environment in several ways. This study was aimed to analyse the best practice of the implementation of a sustainable halal food supply chain from many data sources. The data then transform into managerial knowledge for the halal food industry. The data was collected using SAS Text Miner and analyzed using the decision tree. The analysis shows four key features of sustainable halal food supply chains: pre-slaughtering, warehousing, halal integrity, and packaging. From these features, the two most important factors of successful sustainability implementation in the halal food supply chain are found to be warehousing and packaging. The present study applies a relational view theory and an analysis theory of natural resource-based view, creating and extending new sustainable strategies of halal food chain management to sustainable halal food chain management.

Sustainable food supply chains: overcoming key challenges through digital technologies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamran Mahroof ◽  
Amizan Omar ◽  
Berk Kucukaltan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Critical Success

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to offer a consolidative approach in exploring the potential contribution of digital technologies in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) for the sustainable performance of food supply chain business, through the circular economy concepts.Design/methodology/approachAs a single case study, this qualitative, interpretivist research was based on one of the largest food producers in the United Kingdom. The research utilises semi-structured interviews and applies thematic analysis to offer rich insights into SSCM challenges and their relationship with the business performance, through ten in-depth interviews.FindingsFindings derived from thematic analysis of the interview transcripts suggest four main critical success factors underpinning SSCM practices and businesses performance – i.e. business continuity, waste reduction, performance measurement approach, and organisational learning, which could use the help of digital technologies to improve. This led to seven propositions to be addressed in the future research.Originality/valueThis research offers real, practical insights into SSCM challenges, within the context of food supply chain and explores the potential of digital technologies in overcoming them. Accordingly, the primary contribution of this work is grounded in the identification of critical success factors in SSCM for food supply chains (FSC). Hence, this work contributes further to the literature on SSCM, as well as circular economy, by providing a study of a business in the context of the highly pertinent and valuable food industry.

Utilization of Internet of Things on Food Supply Chains in Food Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Hanhan Maulana ◽  
◽  
Selvia Lorena Br Ginting ◽  
Pramanda Aryan ◽  
Muhamad Restu Fadillah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
The Internet Of Things

This study aims to analyze the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) in supporting the management of food supply chains (FSCs) in the food industry. This research used qualitative research methods. The results obtained from this study are increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the existing food supply chain in the food industry by applying the IoT concept to food supply chain management. These results can be obtained because the IoT concept is supported by various systems and technologies that can be implemented and developed so that IoT can help identify and deal with existing problems more quickly while being able to assist in the decision-making process with information obtained through IoT technology so that it will support development food supply chain management in the food industry. This study was conducted to see how much influence the internet of things (IoT) has on food supply chain management in the food industry.

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