Quantifying the Sustainability of Products and Suppliers in Food Distribution Companies

Segura, Marina; Álvarez, Concepción Maroto; Segura, Baldomero

doi:10.3390/su11215875

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“…This work also broadens the scope of [15] from several dimensions. First, work products are only assessed by the quality indicator in the logistic platform, while the present research also includes in-store consumer evaluation, applying MAUT in both studies because the quality of a product only depends on its specifications.…”

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“…To the best of our knowledge, there is only one other research work, in addition to [15], that applies multicriteria methodology to evaluate suppliers for fresh food. In [33], authors applied a hybrid procedure based on fuzzy AHP to weight the assessment criteria, ELECTRE to qualify suppliers according to food safety and TOPSIS to rank suitable suppliers.…”

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“…A complete description of this method can be found in [34][35][36]. Previous works have shown the suitability of MAUT for this purpose [15,26].…”

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Improving Food Supply Chain Management by a Sustainable Approach to Supplier Evaluation

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Increasing food supply chain sustainability means having to deal with many conflicting aspects and involves producers, several departments in distribution companies, and consumers. The objectives of this research are to develop models to solve real-world supplier evaluation problems and validate them with real data on fresh fruits in a supermarket chain. Literature review and results from a survey with managers from purchasing, logistics, and quality departments of a food distribution company are used to establish criteria, to first model the assessment of products and, second, to model supplier evaluation. A multicriteria hybrid approach is proposed, using multi-attribute utility theory (MAUT) to assess the quality of products and Preference Ranking Organisation Method for Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE) to complete their evaluation with strategic criteria to be included in the second phase. The results allow companies to rank suppliers by product and classify them according to the main criteria categories, such as product strategy, food safety, economic, logistic, commercial, green image and corporate social responsibility. A sorting approach is also applied to obtain ordered groups of suppliers. Finally, the models proposed can form the core of a decision support system in order to create and monitor the supplier base in food distribution companies, as well as to inform sustainable decision making.

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“…Thus, the model revealed which ones were the best to establish new pig farms. PROMETHEE as an outranking method was not compensatory and it was more discriminant than accumulative multi-criteria techniques [ 40 ].…”

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GIS-Based and Outranking Approach to Assess Suitable Pig Farming Areas in the Mediterranean Region: Valencian Community

Marzal

Salguero

Segura

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The concentration of livestock production is problematic due to environmental concerns. European regulations are guiding the sector to become increasingly sustainable and, at the same time, maintaining the population in rural areas. The aim was to determine suitable areas in municipalities where livestock is presented as a market option. The methodology applied was based on the combination of multi-criteria methods and geographic information system (GIS) techniques, following three steps: removal of unsuitable zones by sectoral regulations (STEP 1); removal of unsuitable zones due to urban planning, and environmental recommendations (STEP 2); and evaluating the resulting areas depending on the importance of socio-economic, sectoral, and environmental characteristics. This study was based in a Spanish region with ongoing conflicts over land use on the coast but with a high number of rural municipalities at risk of depopulation in the interior. The results showed that 33% of the municipalities of the Valencian Community (VC) had suitable and outranking areas for the development of the swine sector. The 43 municipalities with the highest scores were because of the socio-economic factor and confirmed that suitable livestock development in municipalities with the highest risk of depopulation and low rural tourism activity was a key issue for development.

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“…The use of multicriteria models to choose suppliers in the food sector has been studied in the literature [24][25][26][27]. However, no research to date has focused exclusively on the selection criteria for securing a food supply without risk, avoiding purely business issues.…”

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Food Supply without Risk: Multicriteria Analysis of Institutional Conditions of Exporters

Puertas

Martí

García-Álvarez-Coque

2020

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International trade in food knows no borders, hence the need for prevention systems to avoid the consumption of products that are harmful to health. This paper proposes the use of multicriteria risk prevention tools that consider the socioeconomic and institutional conditions of food exporters. We propose the use of three decision-making methods—Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), Elimination et Choix Traduisant la Realité (ELECTRE), and Cross-Efficiency (CE)—to establish a ranking of countries that export cereals to the European Union, based on structural criteria related to the detection of potential associated risks (notifications, food quality, corruption, environmental sustainability in agriculture, and logistics). In addition, the analysis examines whether the wealth and institutional capacity of supplier countries influence their position in the ranking. The research was carried out biannually over the period from 2012–2016, allowing an assessment to be made of the possible stability of the markets. The results reveal that suppliers’ rankings based exclusively on aspects related to food risk differ from importers’ actual choices determined by micro/macroeconomic features (price, production volume, and economic growth). The rankings obtained by the three proposed methods are not the same, but present certain similarities, with the ability to discern countries according to their level of food risk. The proposed methodology can be applied to support sourcing strategies. In the future, food safety considerations could have increased influence in importing decisions, which would involve further difficulties for low-income countries.

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Quantifying the Sustainability of Products and Suppliers in Food Distribution Companies

Cited by 17 publications

References 40 publications

Improving Food Supply Chain Management by a Sustainable Approach to Supplier Evaluation

Improving Food Supply Chain Management by a Sustainable Approach to Supplier Evaluation

GIS-Based and Outranking Approach to Assess Suitable Pig Farming Areas in the Mediterranean Region: Valencian Community

Food Supply without Risk: Multicriteria Analysis of Institutional Conditions of Exporters

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