Disruptive Technologies for Achieving Supply Chain Resilience in COVID-19 Era: An Implementation Case Study of Satellite Imagery and Blockchain Technologies in Fish Supply Chain

Abstract

In supply chains where stakeholders belong to the economically disadvantaged segment and form an important part of the supply chain distribution, the complexities grow manifold. Fisheries in developing nations are one such sector where the complexity is not only due to the produce being perishable but also due to the livelihood dependence of others in the coastal regions that belong to the section of economically disadvantaged. This paper explains the contextual challenges of fish supply chain in a developing country and describes how integrating disruptive technologies can address those challenges. Through a positive deviance approach, we show how firms can help unorganized supply chains with economically disadvantaged suppliers by carefully redesigning the supply chain through the integration of satellite imagery and blockchain technology. With COVID-19 in the backdrop, we highlight how such technologies significantly improves the supply chain resilience and at the same time contributes to the income generating opportunities of poor fisherfolks in developing nations. Our study has important implications to both developing markets and food supply chain practitioners as this paper tackles issues such as perishability, demand-supply mismatch, unfair prices, and quality related data transparency in the entire value chain.

Hygienic assessment of fish handling practices along production and supply chain and its public health implications in Central Oromia, Ethiopia

“…Under the current Ethiopian context, it is more prudent to transform the prevailing informal fish production and marketing system by strengthening the existing fish producer and supplier cooperatives to a large-scale commercial enterprise, establishing well networked formal marketing system, and regulating the market dynamics and improving infrastructural development. These will be foundational to evaluate the application of the digital technologies such as blockchain and adopt the technology in future studies for sustainable management of fish production and supply chain by addressing perishability of fish, demand–supply mismatch, unfair prices, and quality related data to satisfy the demands of intervening actors across the supply chain to encourage transparency and accountability in the entire value chain in Ethiopia 5 .…”

“…Within the context of fishery and aquaculture, fish production and supply chain start with collection of fish mostly from large water bodies such as lakes and oceans and end up delivering to consumer in markets far from thousands of miles. The major actors in the fish supply chain consists of a network of fishermen, retailers, distributors, transporters, storage facilities and suppliers that participate in the production, delivery, and sale of a product to the consumer 4 , 5 .…”

The Important of Supply Chain Resilience During Covid-19 Pandemic For Enterprise Risk Management: A Systematic Literature Review

“…[32] Operational Avoid demand-supply mismatch and unfair prices, and increase quality of data transparency. [38] Human capital Leverage dynamic capabilities and frugal innovation for reducing disruption.…”

“…In this context, we elaborate I4.0 enabler with technologies-and-strategies used as key, so-called key drivers in enabling supply chain resilience. As we can see the list of enablers from Figure 5, we also address I4.0 enabler as key driver of SCR, that is, Artificial Intelligence [35] and Blockchain Technologies [38]. Therefore, our framework is summing up all current emerging technical progress for embracing the resiliency of supply chain network.…”

Achieving transparency through blockchain: sustainability of fishery supply chain management

“…Therefore, a first element in meeting these sustainable supply chain demands is innovation. One of the innovations implemented in the fishing industry is the incorporation of BT into the supply chain to overcome logistical deficiencies and improve overall performance (Sengupta, Narayanamurthy, Moser, Pereira, & Bhattacharjee, 2021). The fishing industry has been characterized as an inefficient industry due to the lack of transparency and monitoring, and limited product traceability from point of origin to destination.…”