Many organizations are confronted with the challenge of improving supply chain
transparency not only to meet regulatory requirements, but also to optimize operations …

Purpose This paper aims to examine how companies enact traceability in their global supply
chains (SCs) to achieve sustainability goals and how this so-called traceability for …

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

A number of high profile product safety events and recalls have heightened public attention
to the safety and security of the products that people consume and use. While product safety …

The management of food distribution networks is receiving more and more attention, both in
practice and in the scientific literature. In this paper, we review quantitative operations …

Intrinsic characteristics of food products and processes along with growing sustainability
concerns lead to the need for decision support tools that can integrate economic …

Given their proclivity to occur despite managers' best efforts, disruptions often result in lost
sales, lead to large financial losses, and have a negative impact on shareholder wealth and …

Recent regulations on agri-food traceability prescribe traceability throughout the entire
supply chain, in order to ensure consumers' safety and product quality. This has led …

Traceability systems are perceived as a powerful solution to cope with food safety issues. It
is important to improve the traceability for food supply chains to address potential food safety …

The aim of a traceability system is to collect in a rigorous way all the information related to
the displacement of the different products along the supply chain. This information proves …