Modeling and Implementation of Cattle/Beef Supply Chain Traceability Using a Distributed RFID-Based Framework in China

Abstract

In recent years, traceability systems have been developed as effective tools for improving the transparency of supply chains, thereby guaranteeing the quality and safety of food products. In this study, we proposed a cattle/beef supply chain traceability model and a traceability system based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and the EPCglobal network. First of all, the transformations of traceability units were defined and analyzed throughout the cattle/beef chain. Secondly, we described the internal and external traceability information acquisition, transformation, and transmission processes throughout the beef supply chain in detail, and explained a methodology for modeling traceability information using the electronic product code information service (EPCIS) framework. Then, the traceability system was implemented based on Fosstrak and FreePastry software packages, and animal ear tag code and electronic product code (EPC) were employed to identify traceability units. Finally, a cattle/beef supply chain included breeding business, slaughter and processing business, distribution business and sales outlet was used as a case study to evaluate the beef supply chain traceability system. The results demonstrated that the major advantages of the traceability system are the effective sharing of information among business and the gapless traceability of the cattle/beef supply chain.

Thai Agriculture Products Traceability System using Blockchain and Internet of Things

“…The use of Internet of Things (IoT) technology introduces many benefits for both business and human aspects [18]. The supply chain management has various advantages by integrating the IoT [19], [20]. For example, the user will be able to use the real-time monitoring system, which is the most important system in the food supply chain, by implementing the IoT traceability system with the main food supply chain logistics [21].…”

“…This provides a number of benefits regarding the food quality and security. RFID and QR-code also be implemented in order to allow the users to easily retrieve the information [6], [20], [22]. For the previous work, ZigBee mesh network has applied to work on the real time GPS tracking and monitoring.…”

Radio Frequency IDentification for Meat Supply-Chain Digitalisation

“…Badia-Melis et al [ 18 ] evidenced the potential benefits of introducing RFID (UHF paired to Near Field Communication (NFC)) for the traceability of the whole food chain until the consumer. An RFID-based traceability network was modelled and implemented in a beef supply chain in China from animal husbandry to meat distribution, involving the use of UHF RFID labels [ 19 ]. Nonetheless, technical issues associated with UHF labelling on single meat cuts were not discussed.…”

Traceability information modeling and system implementation in Chinese domestic sheep meat supply chains

“…At present, stakeholders in the meat industry have implemented traceability mainly to improve product flow, control product quality, and limit security scandals (Vol, 2004;Winn et al, 2015). Researches on traceability covers a range of topics: traceability system development (Donnelly, Karlsen, & Olsen, 2009;Feng, Fu, Wang, Xu, & Zhang, 2013;Marchi, Penasa, Cecchinato, & Bittante, 2013;Song, Liu, Wang, & Nanseki, 2008;Xiao, Fu, Zhang, Peng, & Zhang, 2017;Zhang, Fu, Xiao, Zhang, & Li, 2017); traceability modeling (Liang, Cao, Fan, Zhu, & Dai, 2015;Zhang, Lv, Xu, & Mu, 2010); consumers' willingness to pay for traceability (Bai et al, 2013;Mørkbak, Christensen, & Gyrd-Hansen, 2011;Wu et al, 2015;Wu et al, 2016;Zhang, Bai, & Wahl, 2012). Some researches on sheep meat traceability have also been conducted and introduced several mechanisms.…”