Highlights•Involvement of traceability issues in supply chain design and optimisation.•
Discussion of different criteria for traceability systems performance evaluation.•Modern …

Rapid advances in Industry 4.0 have the potential to transform production planning and
control (PPC) through the emerging concept of smart PPC. This paper provides a visionary …

For the past few years, food safety has become an outstanding problem in China. Since
traditional agri-food logistics pattern can not match the demands of the market anymore …

This study explores how performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), firm size (FS),
top management support (MS) and absorptive capacity (AC) of cloud computing technology …

Food waste is an important social and environmental issue that the current society faces,
where one third of the total food produced is wasted or lost every year while more than 820 …

Food safety is an important issue in today's world. The traditional agri-food production
system does not offer easy traceability of the produce at any point of the supply chain, and …

Waste stemmed from inappropriate quality control and excessive inventories is a major
challenge for perishable food management in grocery retail chains. Improvement of visibility …

Managing perishability may represent a remarkable problem in supply chain management
of a varied set of industries. In fact, perishability can influence, for example, productivity or …

One main reason for food scarcity is its improper and uneven distribution amongst those
who require aid. To overcome this issue, charities and food banks serve as the connection …

Abstract RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) has been proposed as a leading technology
that could help reduce wastage in perishable food supply chains. This is due to their cost …