Proposal of a Customer-Oriented Sustainable Balanced Scorecard for Agri-Food Supply Chains

Verdecho, María-José; Perales, David Pérez; Valero, Faustino Alarcón

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44530-0_28

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“…The balanced scorecard designed from the viable system model of the sector under study allows the evaluation of the variables of integral sustainability as an iterative process that contributes towards the learning and continuous improvement of the agro-industrial sector [ 96 ]. This interaction leads to the creation of strategies [ 97 ] that should be included in the design from its link to the systemic process. To go beyond determining low performance rates and proposing improvements is to recognise the learning regarding what could not be achieved with the resources that were available.…”

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Characterisation and causal model of the holistic dynamics of the integral sustainability of the agri-food system

Leon-Romero,

Zamora-Polo,

Luque-Sendra

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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The transformation of the food and industrial agricultural production system into adaptative and sustainable systems capable of being productive within social, environmental, and economic limits is a crucial factor in reducing the risk to food security and to economic growth. However, the analysis structure of the effect of these variables in sustainable environments remains unknown, whereby the technology and processes are considered as variables of the equivalent critical level as those already described. The purpose of this study is to design a model that enables the characterisation of the agri-food sector based on the determination of sustainable variables from a sustainable and integral systemic approach. Tools, such as the viable system model, are employed to analyse the dynamics and generate the balanced scorecard, to which the items of learning and continuous improvement are added. Lastly, the impact of the principles of sustainability versus the variation of sustainability in the agri-food system is revealed, which is useful in determining the appropriate levels to guarantee a balance in the foundations of circularity. From a systemic approach, this model can be adopted by agronomists and scientists to design alternative strategies for the management of food sustainability.

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Characterisation and causal model of the holistic dynamics of the integral sustainability of the agri-food system

Leon-Romero,

Zamora-Polo,

Luque-Sendra

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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“…All the actors must prioritize their financial benefits but at the same time considering the increasing demand on environmental or social aspects. This is mainly due to two circumstances: companies are subject to many public legislation constraints and final clients are becoming more concerned about purchasing sustainable products and services, therefore forcing upstream the ASC to meet certain levels (Verdecho et al 2018) In this third section a brief review about the extent in which decision models (either conceptual or operations research-based) address sustainable issues in ASCM is conducted. Due to space constraints, this review just has focused on the environmental issues that, in some cases, complement the economical ones.…”

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“…The most addressed environmental sustainability issues (Gerbens et al 2003;Bourlakis et al 2014;Prima et al 2016;Beier et al2017;Verdecho et al 2018, Pérez et al 2019) have been: crop protection, soil management, water management, animal welfare, energy efficiency, pollution control and waste control.…”

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Industry 4.0 for the Development of More Efficient Decision Support Tools for the Management of Environmental Sustainability in the Agri-Food Supply Chain

Pérez

Verdecho

Alarcón

2021

Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering

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The agri-food supply chain (ASC) has received a great attention in the last decade due to sustainable issues, not only economical but also environmental and social. This implies that the traditional management methods must be reviewed and changed. Therefore new decision models must arise in which environmental and social aspects will have to be addressed in greater or lesser extent to complement the traditional economical-driven decision models. In this paper a characterization of the main actors and decisions taken throughout a generic ASC as well as the main environmental issues that could affect those decisions are first reviewed. Then, it is aimed to know how each one of these aspects could be enhanced with the incorporation of Industry 4.0 -related technologies to develop more efficient decision support tools for the management of sustainability in ASC.

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“…Although social standards such as ISO 260000 and Social Accountability SA8000 are well-known among companies, there is a wide spectrum about the different issues that must be taken into consideration to manage and measure this social performance, mainly due to their intangible nature. Using the works ( [6], [25][26][27]) we use as the most relevant social sustainability issues: employment, work conditions, safety, health, nutrition, traceability and community engagement. Table 2 shows how Industry 4.0related technologies can enhance each one of the previous issues, affecting the overall social sustainability performance of a generic AFSC.…”

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Enhancing the Sustainability Performance of Agri-Food Supply Chains by Implementing Industry 4.0

Perales

Verdecho

Alarcón-Valero

2019

Collaborative Networks and Digital Transformation

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In order to enhance the sustainability in the supply chain, its members should define and pursue common objectives in the three dimensions of the sustainability (economic, environmental and social). The Agri-Food Supply Chain (AFSC) is a network of different members such as farmers (producers), processors and distributors (wholesales, retailers…), etc. In order to achieve the performance objectives of the AFSC, Industry 4.0 technologies can be implemented. The aim of this paper is to present a classification of these technologies according to two criteria: objective to be achieved (environmental or social) specified in the main issues to be covered in each objective and member of the AFSC supply chain where it is implemented. In this work, we focus on technologies that deal with environmental and social sustainability because economic sustainability will depend on the specific characteristics of the business (a supply chain using a specific Industry 4.0 technology may be profitable while others do not).

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Proposal of a Customer-Oriented Sustainable Balanced Scorecard for Agri-Food Supply Chains

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Characterisation and causal model of the holistic dynamics of the integral sustainability of the agri-food system

Characterisation and causal model of the holistic dynamics of the integral sustainability of the agri-food system

Industry 4.0 for the Development of More Efficient Decision Support Tools for the Management of Environmental Sustainability in the Agri-Food Supply Chain

Enhancing the Sustainability Performance of Agri-Food Supply Chains by Implementing Industry 4.0

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