Managing food traceability information using EPCIS framework

Thakur, Maitri; Sørensen, Carl-Fredrik; Bjørnson, Finn Olav; Forås, Eskil; Hurburgh, Charles R.

doi:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2010.11.012

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“…Food industry is facing great challenges and pressures in managing its dynamic, globalized and complex supply chain for providing consumers with safe, high-quality, healthy and environment friendly products and satisfying more rigorous requirements of food laws and regulations [5] , [12] , [20] , [38] , [44] , [53] , [63] , [67]. Consumers are demanding more detailed information on the food they consume each day, from recipes, the origins of raw materials and ingredients, through certified quality, safety and nutrition labels, processes of food planting or live stocks breeding, production, processing, packaging and distribution, pesticide residue level, to environmental impacts and the comments from friends on food tastes [31] , [33].…”

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“…are imposing significant complexities and rising costs for achieving horizontal and vertical transparency in local or cross-border/global, 'closed' or 'open' food supply chains [63], [67]. Worldwide food and agricultural export had doubled to US$900 billion in 2007 compared to US$400 billion in 2000, which continues to increase [74].…”

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“…International organizations, non-government and government organizations, and industry consortiums have been pursuing the enforcement and reform of variable food guidelines, standards and legislations, promoting or forcing food producers, logistics providers and retailers to adopt specific management and operation practices, to safeguard food quality and safety [19]. Food companies are struggling to pilot innovative business practices and implement emerging technologies to establish flexible and efficient collaborations with upstream and downstream partners for sharing tracking and tracing information, thus improving the efficiency and transparency of their supply chains [3], [10], [16][17][18], [24], [49].Globalization, personalized food consumption behavior, and unprecedentedly increasing demands on quality and healthy foods from both developed countries and emerging economies DOI 10.7603/s40601-013-0051-8are imposing significant complexities and rising costs for achieving horizontal and vertical transparency in local or cross-border/global, 'closed' or 'open' food supply chains [63], [67]. Worldwide food and agricultural export had doubled to US$900 billion in 2007 compared to US$400 billion in 2000, which continues to increase [74].…”

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“…Stakeholders of food supply chain are summing up lessons from these incidents to restore consumers' confidence in food chain. More transparency and visibility of the whole life-cycle chain and wider public participation is the key; technology innovation is one of critical promising enablers, besides reform of government supervision organizations and regulations and optimization of food supply chain business processes.Various enterprise applications-enterprise resource planning system (ERP), warehouse management system (WMS), transportation management system (TMS), to name only a few, food quality management systems, government supervision systems, public tracking and tracing service platforms, together with sensing, labeling, data capturing and exchanging technologies, such as linear and quick response (QR) barcodes, radio frequency identification (RFID), temperature and humidity sensors, global position system (GPS), eXtended Markup Language (XML), Web Service, DNA fingerprinting, have been being deployed and piloted around the world, though not universally and evenly used yet, to improve the transparency and visibility of complex food supply chains [53], [63], [67]. Most of these systems are implemented only for governments to simplify supervision and administration processes, for big food companies or retailers to align operation processes with their closed business partners under strict agreement terms of sharing and using tracking and tracing data.…”

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“…J.H. Trienekens et al have identified key challenges in making complex, dynamic and opaque food supply chains transparent, such as differentiated and dynamic demands of consumers, government agencies and food companies for transprency information, inconsistency of governance and food quality and safety standards, inaccuracy of information exchange, infexibility and heterogeneity of supporting information systems and technologies [63], [67]. These challenges are even more to tackle for cross-border and global food supply chains: many layers of suppliers and service providers are involved; cross-border business processes are weakly linked and difficult to hamonize; cross-border regulartoy environments, trade laws and supervision mechanisms are inconsistent; high cost of politics, technology, and finance has to be paid to integrate cross-border systems and exchange transparency information [5].…”

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A Framework for Developing Social Networks Enabling Systems to Enhance the Transparency and Visibility of Cross-border Food Supply Chains

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Abstract-Demands on safe, high-quality and healthy food are unprecedentedly increasing in both emerging economies and advanced countries. Food safety incidents and scandals, frequently breaking out around the world, are significantly reducing the confidence of consumers in food safety and quality. It is even more difficult to achieve the full transparency, visibility and traceability of dynamic cross-border and global food supply chains, which is critical to ensure food safety and quality, due to: the personalization and globalization of consumer demands; the diversities of food products, raw materials and ingredients; the loose relationships between food business partners; the technology and resource barriers in aligning business processes, coordinating and sharing information; and the changing government supervision mechanisms and standards. Social networking technologies and social software are promising enablers to facilitate end consumers, food companies and government agencies to participate in open discussion, comments and feedback on the quality and safety of cross-border foods. They are able to connect, interact, communicate and collaborate with each other in loose, open, effective and flexible ways for enhancing the transparency and visibility of cross-border and global food supply chains through collective wisdom and intelligence. In this paper a framework is proposed for developing social networks enabling food traceability systems, which not only leverages enterprise Manuscript received November 8, 2013. This work was supported in part by the Guangdong Science and Technology Innovation Fund administered by Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology of China under the Programme of Guangdong-Hong Kong Breakthrough Project in Key Areas (The project reference number: 2011A011303004), and by Shenzhen Strategic Emerging Industry Development Fund (The project reference number: ZDSY20120615142741201).Frank J. Xu was with the E-Business Technology Institute, The University of Hong Kong. He is now with the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. He is also a member of Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation and Shenzhen Key Lab in Carbon Emission Enabling Technologies, The University of Hong Kong (corresponding author, phone: 852-2241-5791; fax: 852-2559-5337; e-mail: frankxu@ hku.hk) Victor P. Zhao is with the Emerging Technologies Institute (formerly as E-Business Technology Institute), The University of Hong Kong (e-mail: vzhao@eti.hku.hk). He is also a member of Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation and Shenzhen Key Lab in Carbon Emission Enabling Technologies, The University of Hong Kong. He is currently a PhD candidate of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China.Lu Shan is with Guangzhou Wanglaoji Pharmaceutical Company Limited, China (e-mail: shanlu@wlj.com.cn).Chuxiong Huang is with Guangzhou Wanglaoji Pharmaceutical Company Limited, China (e-mail: huangcx@wlj.com.cn) applications, public service platforms for food quality, safety and trace...

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