Review, typology and evaluation of traceability technologies: case of the French forest supply chain

Abstract

The use of supply chain management and traceability systems are increasingly important in the forest industry. The adoption of traceability technologies and labelling procedures has become key element to promote the principles of sustainable development in the French forest. This later suffers from a misuse of resources, which negatively impacts the forest ecosystem including the economic competitiveness and biodiversity. However, opting for a suitable technology that resists to the forest environment and does not require a major organisational change is a major challenge for the entire forest supply chain's partners. For this reason, throughout this paper, we suggest a multi-criterion assessment grid to better choose an effective and efficient traceability system, which might include one or more technologies. Thus, our main objective is to review, typologise and evaluate six technologies that could be used in the forest supply chain.

Supply chain traceability: a review of the benefits and its relationship with supply chain resilience

“…Although no technology was limited to a product or industry (as shown in Table 6 below), some specific technologies are better aligned to certain products, based on their unique characteristics, that require particular functional capabilities (Papert, Rimpler, and Pflaum 2016;Musa, Gunasekaran, and Yusuf 2014). For instance, Isotopic and DNA-based technologies trace products using their unique composition of isotopes (elements) and molecules, hence they are mostly used in bio-products/industries such as agrifood and forestry (Saikouk and Spalanzani 2016;George et al 2019). RFIDs do not require line-of-sight and can simultaneously identify multiple products, and hence can be effective Uses the unique isotopic compositions of a product to determine its provenance and authenticity (Saikouk and Spalanzani 2016;George et al 2019).…”

“…For instance, Isotopic and DNA-based technologies trace products using their unique composition of isotopes (elements) and molecules, hence they are mostly used in bio-products/industries such as agrifood and forestry (Saikouk and Spalanzani 2016;George et al 2019). RFIDs do not require line-of-sight and can simultaneously identify multiple products, and hence can be effective Uses the unique isotopic compositions of a product to determine its provenance and authenticity (Saikouk and Spalanzani 2016;George et al 2019).…”

“…x A sophisticated tool for product verification that certifies a product's origin and authenticity based on a DNA added to the product (Saikouk and Spalanzani 2016;George et al 2019).…”

“…Generates unique codes as molecular prints that are merged into a product for identification and authentication (Saikouk and Spalanzani 2016).…”

28 years of traceability management: trends, bottlenecks and opportunities

“…The remaining case studies were specific: chocolate (Saltini and Akkerman, 2012;Acierno et al, 2017), farming (Bertolini et al, 2006), agrifood (Gandino et al, 2009;Hobbs, 2004;Zhang et al, 2010), fruit and vegetable (Rábade and Alfaro, 2006;Pakurar, 2015), aquaculture (Parreño-Marchante et al, 2014;Parenreng et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2017;Cawthorn and Mariani, 2017) and seafood (Donnelly and Olsen, 2012;Karlsen and Olsen, 2011;Ibáñez, 2015;Dien Vo et al, 2016). Studies in industries different from the food industry dealt with fashion (Guercinia and Runfola, 2009;Gobbi and Massa, 2015), solid waste management (Gnoni et al, 2013), forestry (Saikouk and Spalanzani, 2016), blood supply (Bentahar et al, 2016) and automotive (Sohal, 1997).…”