Introducing traceability in the Indian Surimi supply chain

Sultan, Farook Abdullah; Routroy, Srikanta; Thakur, Maitri

doi:10.1016/j.matpr.2019.12.333

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“…The surimi storage temperature and energy use need to be optimised for both product quality and profit. These findings are further elaborated in the various research papers and reports linked to ReValue [30][31][32][33]. With its vast coastline and abundance of natural resources and fish, India has great potential to prosper in the seafood industry.…”

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“…Spoiled fish can lead to a recall of an entire production batch which in turn would trigger elevated market expenses for the industry. To decrease the chance of this happening, employing traceability and temperature monitoring systems along the supply chain are important [31]. Traceability can increase the quality of surimi ventures through investments in information technology for restructuring the Indian surimi supply chain to global standards.…”

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A Multidisciplinary Approach for Improving Resource Efficiency in the Indian Surimi Supply Chain

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With the world population set to approach an estimated 9 billion by 2050, against a background of finite natural resources, we need renewable biological resources for securing healthy food and animal feed to meet the nutritional requirements of the growing population. In this paper, key findings from ReValue Eranet project financed by Norway, India, and Spain are presented. The project aims to contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target on food losses reduction, by developing innovative technologies for the surimi industry, namely reducing losses by improved cold chain management and efficient conversion of rest raw materials (RRM) and wash water into value-added protein and oil ingredients for food and feed applications. A multidisciplinary research approach was applied with expertise from supply chain management, life cycle assessment, biotechnology, energy, and process engineering to propose several solutions for improving the overall resource efficiency of the surimi supply chains in India. This paper presents a synthesis of proposed solutions from ReValue project and potential contribution towards SDGs as well as market exploitation strategies.

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“…Moreover, many economic sectors need technological transformation and higher innovation levels, such as the incorporation of BT, in order to find new paths for global growth (Kizildag et al, 2020). Previous studies have exhibited the relevance of blockchain to leverage trust along supply chains, enhancing traceability and providing valuable information to their stakeholders (Borrero, 2019;Saberi, Kouhizadeh, Sarkis, & Shen, 2019), preventing losses, securing seafood quality, and improving customers' satisfaction (Sultan, Routroy, & Thakur, 2020). Hence, current trust concerns about piracy, slavery, abuse, among other across fishery supply chains would be tackled by BT features related to resourcing and fundraising initiatives towards cleaner oceans and well-integrated seafood supply chains (Howson, 2020).…”

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Achieving transparency through blockchain: sustainability of fishery supply chain management

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Aguirre

2022

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Objective: This paper aimed to discuss how blockchain technology would incorporate several changes in the fishery supply chains, in order to make them more reliable and sustainable. Method: This is a qualitative study, using an exploratory method with descriptive approach. In addition, the literature review in this study presents theoretical contributions regarding utility. Main Results: The study highlights the importance of incorporating blockchain features into seafood supply chains, which are currently fragmented and lack of real-time information, focusing on its traceability potential to leveraging fishery supply chains operations and outcomes. It identifies a sequence of strategic checkpoints that provide real-time information by using blockchain in fishery supply chains. Relevance / Originality: This manuscript presents a diagram of a seafood supply chain considering how blockchain allows the data gathering in each stage in order to provide traceability to the supply chain. Hence, the study serves as a map, as well as a model, for upcoming research on how to understand the incorporation of technology into supply chains stages. Theoretical / Methodological Contributions: Supply chains support international business operations. Furthermore, as digital revolution moves aggressively forward, supply chains need to adapt to it in order to fit for the new stakeholders’ expectations. This study uses sustainable supply chain management and blockchain technology as positioning literature. Management Contributions: The study provides an overview of how fishery supply chains would work by incorporating blockchain technology, which extends the literature about sustainable supply chain management and proposes paths for actions for policymakers in order to make them improve the business ecosystem. This study implies a practical contribution to global value chain perspective and the discipline of business.

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“…life (Park et al 1997). Gaining substantial importance in the global marketplace (Sultan et al 2020), Indian surimi constitutes 2.5% of the processed seafood export earnings (Dasgupta et al 2019). India contributes 2% to the soaring global surimi demand of 705,051MT (Trade Map 2019).…”

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Evaluating sustainability of the surimi supply chain in India: a life cycle assessment approach

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Routroy

Thakur

2021

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose Being a primary product for a multitude of processed seafood, the ecological impacts of surimi have been less noted, despite its global supply dominance, especially in India. Life cycle assessment (LCA) evaluates the environmental sustainability of existing supply chain by comparing it with two other supply chain alternatives. The ecologically understudied and fragmented nature of the existing Indian surimi supply chain necessitates the authors to highlight the significance of supply chain localizations and the reductions obtained in ecological impacts. The current study will show the direction for developing strategy(s) to improve the environmental sustainability in Indian stance. Methods A cradle-gate approach of LCA is adopted right from fishing to an export market. Different supply chain alternatives such as the current state and two different states with different localizations and downstream alternatives (i.e., Scenario 1 with partial localizations and Scenario 2 with complete localizations) are analyzed to study the impacts. An economic analysis of these scenarios is also carried out to check the competency of the proposed alternatives for economic sustainability. Results and discussion Eleven environmental impacts considered for analysis under the existing supply chain scenario denote that the process of fishing has an average environmental impact of 74%. However, the inclusion of downstream operations such as distribution in the LCA analysis reveals a significant share of environmental impact averaging 53% from fishing and 34% from distribution for the 11 environmental indicators considered. A detailed assessment of the various alternatives considered reveals vital improvements for both Scenario 1 and Scenario 2 in human carcinogenic toxicity (8% and 16%), fossil resource scarcity (8% and 20%), and global warming potential (GWP) (6% and 16%), respectively, in comparison to the current state. A carbon footprint assessment of the complete surimi supply chain to an export market (considered in this study) via ship freight denotes reduction in footprint values from 4.67 kg CO 2 equivalent/kg (existing state) to 4.43 kg CO 2 equivalent/kg (Scenario 1) and 4.06 kg CO 2 equivalent/kg (Scenario 2), respectively. The economic analysis reveals maximum fiscal gains of 9.83% and 13.31% in Scenario 1 and Scenario 2 respectively. Conclusion Results highlight that the introduction of supply chain localizations in the Indian surimi scenario can reduce environmental impacts and improve economic savings. Among the assessed alternatives, Scenario 2 is found to be the best sustainable alternative with reduced environmental impacts and improved savings.

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Introducing traceability in the Indian Surimi supply chain

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

A Multidisciplinary Approach for Improving Resource Efficiency in the Indian Surimi Supply Chain

A Multidisciplinary Approach for Improving Resource Efficiency in the Indian Surimi Supply Chain

Achieving transparency through blockchain: sustainability of fishery supply chain management

Evaluating sustainability of the surimi supply chain in India: a life cycle assessment approach

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