Towards a comprehensive model of a biofuel supply chain optimization from coffee crop residues

Chávez, Marcela María Morales; Sarache, William; Costa, Yasel

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2018.06.001

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“…Topic Issues [40] Sustainability Model for designing a sustainable coffee supply chain. [41] Quality Coffee characterization for quality improvement.…”

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Roadmapping as a Driver for Knowledge Creation: A Proposal for Improving Sustainable Practices in the Coffee Supply Chain from Chiapas, Mexico, Using Emerging Technologies

Contreras-Medina

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et al. 2020

Sustainability

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Technologies are essential for productive sectors to increase competitiveness and improve sustainable development. However, the technology benefits present a great delay in adoption in agricultural sectors, due to discrepancies between scientific research and local needs. This article presents a study for improving sustainability practices in the coffee supply chain, using emerging technologies, of two localities in the Frailesca region from Chiapas, Mexico, based on the current situation, expectations and actions expressed by 165 coffee producers and 12 representatives of two coffee producers’ organizations. Based on Mentzer theoretical support, the technology roadmaps, knowledge management and digital compass were used to draw coffee supply chain processes to identify concrete actions and explore technologies. The results show that the technological route must be focused on renewing and improving coffee quality, getting quality certifications and access to specialized markets. Digital quality management and advanced statistical process control seem to be the appropriate emerging technologies for enhancing the acquisition of resistant varieties, proper pest management, improvement in the collection of coffee beans, the right time and way to plant a coffee plant, soil analysis and for the management of weeds and water conservation and harvesting as sustainable practices in this region. In addition, statistical correlation showed that digital technologies can be better adopted, on average, by producers with 4–6 family members, aged between 40–44 years and without additional crops. The findings propose sustainable practices linked with emerging technologies, based on a technology roadmap and knowledge management methodologies for this region.

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“…Topic Issues [40] Sustainability Model for designing a sustainable coffee supply chain. [41] Quality Coffee characterization for quality improvement.…”

Section: Referencementioning

confidence: 99%

Roadmapping as a Driver for Knowledge Creation: A Proposal for Improving Sustainable Practices in the Coffee Supply Chain from Chiapas, Mexico, Using Emerging Technologies

Contreras-Medina

Núñez

et al. 2020

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“…Studies on biofuel from a management perspective can be categorized into two main streams. In the first stream of research, biofuel supply chain management has been studied [21,22]. The second stream of research has focused on the drivers of biofuel adoption [23][24][25].…”

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Barriers of Biodiesel Adoption by Transportation Companies: A Case of Malaysian Transportation Industry

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The need to develop an alternative fuel to fossil fuel is growing day by day, especially for the transportation industry, as the supply of fossil fuels is limited and is depleting at a rapid rate. One available resource that has emerged recently is biodiesel. However, the usage of biodiesel is very low among transportation companies. An investigation into the barriers of adopting biodiesel by transportation companies is the focus of the present study. A survey of 147 transportation companies in Malaysia was undertaken, and the data gathered were analyzed using partial least squares technique. Lack of government support, lack of environmental–commercial benefits, and lack of competitive pressure were found to be the barriers to biodiesel adoption. The results also indicated that differentiation strategy moderates the impact of lack of government support, lack of customer demand, lack of environmental-commercial benefits and lack of competitive pressure on biodiesel adoption. The results of this study could benefit policy makers by providing them key focus areas in which they can modify their strategies to actively and successfully promote the use of biodiesel among transportation companies in developing countries.

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“…Varsei and Polyakovskiy (2017a) simultaneously considered all dimensions of sustainability and developed a multi-objective model to find the best network configuration, while minimizing costs, greenhouse gas emission and maximizing the social impact. A bio-fuel SC with coffee as raw material was proposed by Chávez et al (2018) where net present value (economy), gray water footprint and CO2 emission (environment), jobs created and food security (society) are considered as objective functions. A three echelon SC model to determine optimal service level and minimize total costs was proposed by Alavidoost et al (2018).…”

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Supplier Selection and Optimization of Supply Chains

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Krasławski

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International Journal of Management and Sustainability

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Supplier selection is one of the most important components of supply chain management. The main objective of this exercise is to select best suppliers based on different criteria. Those criteria are often closely related with sustainability and are set by the decision-maker. Hence, the objective of this paper is to integrate sustainability and decision-making. The sustainability aspect of the model includes economic, environmental and social dimensions and strategic level of decision-making criteria. The methodology used in this paper is mathematical modeling and the problem is formulated as mixed integer linear programming. The integration of sustainability and supplier selection is presented on an illustrative example of a bio-fuel supply chain. The best multi-objective solution is obtained using the weighting sum method. The study indicates that the integration of several sustainability aspects and supplier selection can be useful for decision making process. The main contribution of this work is the integration of supplier selection with the sustainability of supply chains. Contribution/Originality: The main contribution of this paper is in the field of sustainable supply chain development. The methodology used was mathematical modeling (optimization). The objective was to integrate supplier selection and sustainability of supply chains. 1. INTRODUCTION Supply chains (SCs) are considered one of the main part in today"s economy and business organizations (Pasandideh et al., 2015) and their goal is to deliver products from front end (supply) to back end (demand) (Tang and Musa, 2011). Additionally, SCs are characterized by forward (open loop SCs) and reverse movement (closed loop SCs) of material (Easwaran and Üster, 2010; Govindan et al., 2015; Pedram et al., 2017). SCs are integrated networks of raw materials suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, distribution centers, and consumers (Melo et al., 2009) with various aspects of inter-network (within SCs) competition and relations seen from business managements perspective (Lambert and Cooper, 2000; Mentzer et al., 2001). The common interest of all SCs players is most often reflected in terms of economic gains (Carter and Liane Easton, 2011). The most common measure of a SC performance is its sustainability (Schaltegger and Burritt, 2014) which is approached at three levels, namely: economic, environmental and social (Beske and Seuring, 2014; Joyce and Paquin, 2016; Rajeev et al., 2017). Although, SCs and sustainability have been defined in many ways over the years, the most often used definition of sustainability describes it as: "development thata meets the needs of the present without

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Towards a comprehensive model of a biofuel supply chain optimization from coffee crop residues

Cited by 49 publications

References 47 publications

Roadmapping as a Driver for Knowledge Creation: A Proposal for Improving Sustainable Practices in the Coffee Supply Chain from Chiapas, Mexico, Using Emerging Technologies

Roadmapping as a Driver for Knowledge Creation: A Proposal for Improving Sustainable Practices in the Coffee Supply Chain from Chiapas, Mexico, Using Emerging Technologies

Barriers of Biodiesel Adoption by Transportation Companies: A Case of Malaysian Transportation Industry

Supplier Selection and Optimization of Supply Chains

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