Process modelling in demand-driven supply chains: A reference model for the fruit industry

Verdouw, C.N.; Beulens, A.J.M.; Trienekens, J. H.; Wolfert, J.

doi:10.1016/j.compag.2010.05.005

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“…With a view to the demand-driven FFSC, the quality of the fresh fruit becomes a fundamental element and parameters such as sweetness, firmness, flavour and their maintenance are basic requirements. These considerations, which go beyond the need to reduce losses due to deterioration to a minimum [13], make the FFSC more complex and more difficult to manage than others [17]. …”

Section: Fresh Fruit Supply Chain (Ffsc) Characteristics and Innovatimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In their 2010 research, Verdouw et al [13,34] describe two distinctive characteristics of the FFSCs analysed. It is possible to state that the FFSC of the Agrifrutta srl has passed over a period of 10 years from type I, where the blueberries were packaged during the harvest directly by the producers and the product was straightaway placed on the market with very reduced storage and conservation periods, to a type II FFSC.…”

Section: Qualitative Analysis Of the Innovation In The Blueberry Suppmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The structure of the Fresh Fruit supply chain (FFSC) (Figure 1) may have different configurations, but the basic elements remain unchanged [13]. FFSC implies reasoning at the same time with regard to field production, storage, packaging, warehousing, transportation, distribution, marketing and consumption, or rather a "farm-to-fork" system [14].…”

Section: Fresh Fruit Supply Chain (Ffsc) Characteristics and Innovatimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Blueberry Supply Chain in Italy: Management, Innovation and Sustainability

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Abstract:The growing trend market of fresh products is driven by a consumer oriented to new lifestyles and environmental issues. The berries market in Europe represents a good example of a consumer driven supply chain, due to the capacity to answer all the sequences of the system. To explore the process developed by fruit growers' associated groups in Italy, the research is organized into four stages. The first stage provides a review of the organization of the fresh fruit supply chain (FFSC) and the need to innovate it in light of the driven demand. The second section focuses on the innovation displayed towards storing, managing and maintaining the quality of fruit during the supply. The third section considers the case study. The manuscript concludes by summarising the main results and discussing the implications for future research. The use of a modified active packaging system (MAP) with "green" films has enabled the maintenance of the quality of the fruits for two months, as well as the presence of the company blueberries market for longer periods, and has finally led to improving the exports, thus reaching new European countries, increasing the turnover of the associated group and better remuneration for the fruit growers as a consequence.

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Section: Fresh Fruit Supply Chain (Ffsc) Characteristics and Innovatimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Qualitative Analysis Of the Innovation In The Blueberry Suppmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Fresh Fruit Supply Chain (Ffsc) Characteristics and Innovatimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Blueberry Supply Chain in Italy: Management, Innovation and Sustainability

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“…A related remaining question was how business process models can become more easily configurable in order to enable re-use and rapid adaptation of services to a changing, dynamic environment. A follow-up paper addressed this question for the fruit industry and focused on the third phase of iterative implementation (Verdouw et al, 2010b). This chapter applies to arable farming and mainly focuses on the enhancing role of reference (process) models to analyze the existing state (as-is) of arable farm enterprise integration.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When organisations decides to set up a software product line it will face the following issues (i) how the particular software product is specified and (ii) how the software product line itself is specified (Benavides et al, 2010). Reference information models can play an important role to setup a software product line as it can model how the product is specified by describing the relations and provide generic descriptions of an object system (Benavides et al, 2010;Verdouw et al, 2010a;Verdouw et al, 2010b;Verdouw and Wolfert, 2009). Reference Information Models are standardized taxonomies that represent possible configuration options of process instances and interdependencies that exist between components or features, including rules for permitted combinations (Verdouw et al, 2010a).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%