Agri-food supply chain coordination: the state-of-the-art and recent developments

Abstract

Researches on agri-food supply chain coordination have been gaining public attention due to their critical relevance to food availability, security, and safety. Still, the research focus is considerably in its early stage of development. This study was aimed at reviewing a holistic understanding on agri-food supply chain, particularly on issues related to coordination. This review was conducted by analyzing selected articles from peer-reviewed journals and proceedings. The articles are classified based on three important categories for researches on agri-food supply chain coordination, i.e., interdependencies, coordination mechanism, and methodology. Based on an analysis on the current state of research, a future research on agri-food supply chain coordination should be encouraged. Besides, the spectrum of coordination mechanism taken to deal with different levels of interdependencies and quality requirements is presented. The spectrum is useful for any member in an agriculture supply chain who is willing to coordinate its actions with other members for improving supply chain performance. Then, the results of analysis suggest that a further research on the adoption of value co-creation in the coordination process is required to deliver benefits not only for participating actors but also for end consumers.

Push or Pull? Perishable Products with Freshness-Keeping Effort

“…Later studies on continuously deteriorating inventory models were reviewed in the surveys of Raafat (1991) and Goyal and Giri (2001), which offered informative discussions and insightful trends on the work conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, respectively. For recent literature reviews of perishable-product supply chains, we refer the reader to Bakker et al (2012), Shukla and Jharkharia (2013), and Handayati et al (2015).…”

How to Support Group Decision Making in Horticulture: An Approach Based on the Combination of a Centralized Mathematical Model and a Group Decision Support System

“…When collaborative planning is implemented under a distributed approach, it is necessary to implement coordination mechanisms ( [13]). [14] affirm that still, research on coordinationrelated issues in an agricultural supply chain is in its early development and not cover coordination of the whole supply chain. They state that studies on the coordination of processed fruits and vegetables products have been more widely studied than the coordination of fresh produce.…”

“…In their review, [14] also identify mathematical modelling as one methodology used in agri-food supply chain coordination. One application can be found in the work of [15] who propose a distributed mathematical model for the coordination of perishable crop production among small farmers and a consolidation facility using auction mechanisms.…”

“…Another example is the research of [9] where a collaborative mathematical model is proposed to improve farmers' skill level by investments in an uncertain context. [14] conclude in their review that studies on supply chain coordination in agri-food sector with a particular focus on small-scale farmers is very scarce. Besides, [16] highlight as a conclusion of their review that although quantitative modeling approaches have been applied to agricultural problems for a long time, adoption of these methods for improving planning decisions in agribusiness supply chains under uncertainty is still limited.…”

A structured-literature-review of the supply chain practices in dairy industry

“…Sharma et al (2017) ranked the key performance indicators responsible for implementation of GSCM in Indian dairy sector through extensive literature review and personal interviews. Handayati, Simatupang, and Perdana (2015) surveyed the FSC practices to identify key coordination issues. Chen, Zhang, and Delaurentis (2014) developed a model to study the 'quality measures' in FSC via a case study and concluded that the decentralized SC lead to distortion in food quality.…”