Granularity and its role in implementation of seafood traceability

Karlsen, Kine Mari; Dreyer, Bent; Olsen, Petter; Elvevoll, Edel O.

doi:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2012.03.025

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“…The EU Regulation 178/2002 has translated the general European food safety principles through the introduction of a mandatory traceability system for food, feed, food-producing animals and any other substance incorporated into a food at all stages of production, processing and distribution. The EU Regulation introduces a scare traceability system as it obliges food firms to be able to identify from whom and to whom an agri-food product has been supplied (Karlsen et al, 2012). No normative requirements related to the identification of information about the product flow within the firms part of the traced food supply chain are introduced by the EU Regulation 178/2002.…”

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Voluntary traceability standards and the role of economic incentives

Stranieri

Cavaliere

Banterle

2016

British Food Journal

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Purpose The proliferation of traceability standards shed light on the understanding of the mechanisms leading agri-food firms to choose among different kind of rules and systems for their implementation. The present paper investigates the role of firms economic incentives on the adoption of different traceability systems. In specific, the analysis aims at segmenting food firms on the basis of economic incentives for the adoption of voluntary traceability and the levels of the system complexity implemented. Design/methodology/approach A survey based on an ad hoc questionnaire was conducted in 2014 on a sample of firms certified ISO 22005/2008. Cluster analysis was run for the analysis and one-way ANOVA was used to confirm differences among clusters. Findings The analysis presents three different clusters in terms of economic incentives for voluntary traceability and the level of systems complexity implemented. All the clusters reveal that supply chain incentives play a key role. Moreover, ‘fine traceability’ clusters firms with high level of traceability. They consider food safety as an important incentive to adopt a voluntary standard. ‘Medium traceability’ groups firms with an average level of traceability system complexity. The interviewed consider the firm reputation as strategic driver for voluntary standard implementation. The cluster ‘coarse traceability’ groups firms which introduced traceability for quality differentiation of products on the market. These firms implemented a low level of traceability system complexity. Research limitations/implications The paper presents some limitations due to the sample dimension. Future research is oriented to test such results on an extended sample and to analyse the relationships between the traceability system implemented and the different kind of economic incentives for traceability standards. Originality/value The present paper offers two main contributions. From a conceptual point of view it tries to deepen existing knowledge on the mechanisms regulating the existence of different traceability standards. From a managerial point of view, the analysis contributes in the understanding of firm strategies in relation to the adoption of different traceability systems. Such results could address firm management on the allocation of financial resources for the adoption of different traceability systems.

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Voluntary traceability standards and the role of economic incentives

Stranieri

Cavaliere

Banterle

2016

British Food Journal

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“…Following the definition formulated by Karlsen, Dreyer, Olsen, and Elvevoll (2012), granularity refers to the size of a traceable unit and the number of the smallest traceable units necessary to make up the traceable unit at a specific granularity level. As reported by Angeles (2005), usually the traceability levels considered are three: pallet, case or item-level.…”

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“…On the other hand the finer the traceability, the higher will be the cost of the system and the amount of data to be processed. Karlsen et al (2012) underlined that usually coarse granularity can be used when the risk of contamination is low, or when requirements for controlling production processes are less stringent, while finer granularity is recommended otherwise. As reported by Dabbene and Gay (2011), the granularity generally arises from a combination of tradition, short-term convenience and use of available facilities.…”

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The expected value of the traceability information

Aiello

Enea

Muriana

2015

European Journal of Operational Research

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“…According to Karlsen et al (2012), traceability system must be able to trace both products and activities, by determining traceable unit and elementary activities. Regattieri et al (2007) focused on the ability of the traceability system to describe and to communicate product characteristics, taking into consideration confidentiality constraints.…”

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Enhancing container transportation traceability based on intelligent product and web-services: Model driven approach

Najib¹,

Samiri²,

Fazziki³

et al. 2014

Sci. Res. Essays

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Containers transportation involves various intermediate supply-chain actors.These containers are subject to myriad risks that can occur at any moment. In addition, the absence of a specialized stakeholder for securing containers flow and the lack of communication among actors impedes identifying responsibilities when an adverse event arises. For this purpose, we advocate the use of traceability system to enhance containers transportation security. This objective is achieved through enhancing systems interoperability to collect necessary information for identifying risks. Thus, we opted for urbanizing a traceability system to meet the new requirements related to risk management. In this paper, we propose the use of web-services to overcome the problems related to the heterogeneity of systems used by supply-chain stakeholders. Thus, we proposed a development process based on model driven architecture (MDA) to automate the code generation of these web-services. Moreover, we used the concept of intelligent product (IP) to propose an intelligent container able to communicate with external systems and to manage information related to its traceability. This solution is validated by a real case study.

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Granularity and its role in implementation of seafood traceability

Cited by 42 publications

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Voluntary traceability standards and the role of economic incentives

Voluntary traceability standards and the role of economic incentives

The expected value of the traceability information

Enhancing container transportation traceability based on intelligent product and web-services: Model driven approach

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