Grocery retail supply chain planning and control: Impact of consumer trends and enabling technologies

Vallandingham, Logan Reed; Yu, Qian; Sharma, Nakul; Strandhagen, Jo Wessel; Strandhagen, Jan Ola

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.08.386

Cited by 11 publications

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“…More specifically, the supply chain can reduce transaction costs and liability risks associated with retail efforts to govern product sustainability issues in the upstream (farmers) side [38]. This finding is confirmed by Vallandingham et al [78], highlighting that the high efficiency that grocery retail supply chains have achieved over the last years has led to cost-focused supply chains that are able to deliver high volumes of products at low prices. Furthermore, the reverse information flow that the supply chain enables to be conducted supports organic conversion decisions [39].…”

Section: Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…Because conversion costs in organic farming are high [78], the price of organic food is a crucial factor influencing conversion decisions [23,25,70]. Organic price premiums are powerful instruments to motivate the adoption of organic techniques [26,27].…”

Section: Pricementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, digitalization allows the food supply chains to be highly connected, efficient, and responsive to customer needs as well as to regulatory requirements. For example, food retailers are supported in their sourcing strategy, because it is easy to keep track of a supplier's performance based on various parameters such as cost, quality, availability, innovativeness, and environmental impact [78]. Food franchises largely have the advantage of shared resources of their suppliers in managing orders, payments, inventory, and after-sales services [83].…”

Section: Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The mean age of farmers and their education and knowledge can change, the regional or national systems providing training and information can be improved, the available technologies can be rapidly multiplied, and the consumers' income and interest in organic products may change. Country-level and global shifts in consumption, marketing, production, and trade lead to organizational changes along food chains [19], while increases in efficiency in supply chains lead to the ability to deliver high volumes of products at low prices worldwide [78]. The changes in habits linked to wider societal trends, with shifts in agricultural policy [27], as well as the changes in economic conditions that favor conversion can attract the interest of new farms to shift to organic activities [28].…”

Section: Dynamics and Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Factors that Impact Farmers’ Organic Conversion Decisions

Karipidis

Karypidou

2021

Sustainability

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This article helps to answer the question of how the diffusion of organic farming could be accelerated by analyzing farmers’ decisions. Given the fragmentation of the research findings, the determinants of farmers’ organic conversion decisions were integrated into a framework that enables a holistic approach to be adopted in research and policy scheduling. The most important factors of the external farm environment are the organic product demand, product price, access to markets, available technologies, education, knowledge transfer, peer networks, society’s attitudes, and subsidy provision. The most important farm characteristics are the farm’s location, farm size, enterprise, expected costs, profits, knowledge, information and communication technology use, farmers’ age, education, gender, off-farm activities, attitudes, and beliefs regarding organic farming and willingness to preserve the environment. Of particular importance are farmers’ satisfaction with economic incentives, the perception of technical problems, and the certification process. Such comprehensive information enables public authorities to bring about changes in the most important factors that effectively accelerate organic conversion decisions and to assess policy implementation. The market participants are facilitated to implement eco-strategies by encouraging farmers to decide to convert. Future research should broaden the sets of factors that are explored, taking into consideration the interactions and time-dependent changes that exist.

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Section: Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 66%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Karipidis

Karypidou

2021

Sustainability

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“…Consumer trends are pressing grocery stores to provide higher quality, availability, innovation, and environmental performance than in the past. Some studies showed that future grocery retailers would use real-time information, and gain agility, efficiency, and transparency in their operations [22].…”

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A meta-analysis of Nanostores: A 10-year assessment.

Ortega-Jiménez¹,

Amador-Matute²,

López³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the 2nd LACCEI International Multiconference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (LEIRD 202

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The effect of nanostores, i.e., small traditional, disorganized retailing, composed of millions of independent familyowned businesses, on consumer-packaged goods (CPG), has been studied in the existing literature, but results remain mixed. Therefore, it is important to provide a meta-analysis to investigate this relationship. In this study, 6 empirical journal articles published over the past 11 years have been reviewed and evaluated through a metaanalysis. The results reveal that nanostores are positively related to CPG. This study provides the first publication of meta-analysis on this relationship, which will contribute to the knowledge of practitioners and researchers to solve engineering problems and improve performance in nanostores and CPG, as well as to contrastnanostores to alternative retailing that are more modern and organized, such as convenience stores and supermarkets. This area of knowledge is new, so it is key to select, evaluate and statistically synthesize the available evidence, by also achieving significant methodological value applied to nanostores, where no similar publication exists to date.

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