Digitalization within food supply chains to prevent food waste. Drivers, barriers and collaboration practices

A Cause and Effect Model for Digital Sustainable Supply Chain Competitiveness under Uncertainties: Enhancing Digital Platform

“…Fettermann et al [27] claimed that the interconnectedness within SC needs collaboration among diverse technologies, such as sensors, cloud processing, and cyber-physical practices, to encourage management transformation towards Industry 4.0. Annosi et al [13] argued that high-performance DSC integration allows an increase in financial performance and is beneficial for sustainability. Kianpour et al [28] proposed integrating digital technology with real-time information on processing times and due date rescheduling decisions to adapt to dynamic situations.…”

“…Therefore, this aspect is argued to help ensure that the interaction between stakeholders is flexible and efficient because it synchronizes all the information in the whole SSCM process so that information can be processed into valuable insights. As one of the critical aspects, digital platform effectiveness offers enhancement of financial performance while also contributing to the social and environmental performance of the SSCM process [13]. Flexibility and efficiency, which are gained from digital platform effectiveness, result in less cost, less waste, and faster responses to the market, thus providing competitiveness and better socioenvironmental performance.…”

Digitalization and Future Agro-Food Supply Chain Management: A Literature-Based Implications

“…Quality challenges with big data, questionability of sustainable integration of the data, challenges in standardization of the data, and possibilities for raw data manipulation were among the data-related challenges identified [44,45,60,74,80]. The openness of the platform, technological complexities (non-friendly), difficulty in implementation in small and medium agro-food enterprises, difficulties in coordinating with partners of different sizes (agro-business size compatibility), and compatibility and complementarities of the technologies with existing technologies were other challenges mentioned in this category [44,64,94,104].…”

“…Poor infrastructure and internet connection in rural (remote) areas, lack of financial resources, high costs of transferring large amounts of data to the cloud, unsustainable energy expenses required for computing power, and high costs of the technologies and of infrastructure development were other challenges identified as threats to the sustainability of digitalization of the food system. It was frequently pointed out that all stakeholders need to work hand-in-hand to solve these challenges [41,50,[59][60][61]91,[102][103][104].…”

Intrinsic value of food chain data

“…Other actors invest in digitalising existing data assets by deploying advanced analytics and data processing systems for predictive analytics 21 . Value is also derived from transforming business models using connectivity, data storage and network technologies like distributed ledgers, smart contracts and cloud computing.…”