Supply chain transparency as a key prerequisite for sustainable agri-food supply chain management

Bastian, Jonas; Zentes, Joachim

doi:10.1080/09593969.2013.834836

Cited by 71 publications

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“…At present, the ability to trace raw materials for MT-SSCM and have total SC visibility is a utopia [24,43]. While academic and theoretical progress has been made on MT-SSCM, what is often missing is the recognition that SC transparency is a key pre-requisite before MT-SSCM can occur [32]. As Wilhelm et al stated, managing the sustainability of sub-suppliers "is still the exception, rather than the rule" [30].…”

Section: Sustainability In Supply Chain Management Beyond Tiermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They also recognised the role that supply chain mapping must play as a first step in MT-SSCM activities. Assuming that achieving transparency (and the resulting SC visibility) is the key factor for MT-SSCM [31,32,41,82,85,86], it is apparent that FCs find it exceptionally difficult to achieve transparency in their MT-SCs [87,88].…”

Section: Sustainability In Supply Chain Management Beyond Tiermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transparency for Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Multi-tier Transparency Approach for SSCM in the Automotive Industry

2020

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Sustainability in supply chain management (SSCM) has become established in both academia and increasingly in practice. As stakeholders continue to require focal companies (FCs) to take more responsibility for their entire supply chains (SCs), this has led to the development of multi-tier SSCM (MT-SSCM). Much extant research has focused on simple supply chains from certain industries. Recently, a comprehensive traceability for sustainability (TfS) framework has been proposed, which outlines how companies could achieve MT-SSCM through traceability. Our research builds on this and responds to calls for cases from the automotive industry by abductively analysing a multi-tier supply chain (MT-SC) transparency case study. This research analyses a raw material SC that is particularly renowned for sustainability problems—the cobalt supply chain for electric vehicles—and finds that the extant literature has oversimplified the operationalisation of transparency in MT-SSCM. We compare the supply chain maps of the MT-SC before and after an auditing and mapping project to demonstrate the transparency achieved. Our findings identify challenges to the operationalisation of SC transparency and we outline how FCs might set to increase MT-SC transparency for sustainability.

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Section: Sustainability In Supply Chain Management Beyond Tiermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sustainability In Supply Chain Management Beyond Tiermentioning

confidence: 99%

Transparency for Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Multi-tier Transparency Approach for SSCM in the Automotive Industry

2020

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“…SCT is an indicator of the quality, availability, accuracy, accessibility and facts about SC data (Bastian and Zentes 2013). To accomplish enhancements in collaboration with SC partners, transparency beyond organisational boundaries is required (Shao 2013).…”

Section: • Supply Chain Collaboration Design (Sccd)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Enabling sustainable energy futures: factors influencing green supply chain collaboration

Irani

Kamal

Sharif

et al. 2017

Production Planning & Control

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PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL, 2017 VOL. 28, NO. 6-8, 684-To explore the relationship between sustainability strategies and future energy needs, supply chains need to reduce their CO2 emissions through developing their green credentials and improving performance. Knowledge management (KM) is an enabler to support collaboration efforts. The SCM and KM areas have largely focused on improving organisational performance. While the latter has yielded successful outcomes in different sectors, there is still a scarcity of research on identifying influential factors highlighting those aspects which may enable green supply chain collaboration (GrSCC), thus leading to sustainable energy futures and carbon-efficient production. This paper examines the role of KM in facilitating GrSCC. Through the identification of key factors extrapolated from the literature, a model for implementing GrSCC using a futures-based perspective is proposed. This paper inductively demonstrates the relationship between identified GrSCC factors through fuzzy cognitive mapping technique. Findings support a futures-based perspective that enhances understanding and refines forward-looking strategies for GrSCC.

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“…As a result, different exigencies can be discussed when speaking of food transportation and storage; these needs are also correlated to several players of the food chain and different warehousing systems [23]. Anyway, the most influential factors appear to be (a) weight, (b) shape and (c) volumetric capacity: naturally, these features are mainly established in the design step for FP and IFP.…”

Section: Requirements For Transportation and Storagementioning

confidence: 98%

Packaging and Food: A Complex Combination

Brunazzi

Parisi

Pereno

2014

SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science

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The advent of packaging materials in the modern food industry has deeply changed the relationship between people and foods. Food packages have progressively been turned into essential element for the sale and the consumption of food products. On these bases, packaged foods can become communicative media of values and information: the user receives and understands these data by means of suitable tools of physical, cultural and personal nature. Functional and communicative requirements of food packaging are continuously evolving: the careful analysis of these factors should be recommended because of their influence on chemistry of foods, food technology, biochemical interactions between different food phases, and chemistry of food packaging. This section is dedicated to the study and the 'chemical' interpretation of food packaging requirements.

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Supply chain transparency as a key prerequisite for sustainable agri-food supply chain management

Cited by 71 publications

References 46 publications

Transparency for Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Multi-tier Transparency Approach for SSCM in the Automotive Industry

Transparency for Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Multi-tier Transparency Approach for SSCM in the Automotive Industry

Enabling sustainable energy futures: factors influencing green supply chain collaboration

Packaging and Food: A Complex Combination

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