Traceability information modeling and system implementation in Chinese domestic sheep meat supply chains

Abstract

Traceability has become a prerequisite for ensuring meat quality and safety. It is the most critical requirement for developing a well‐structured traceability system to identify efficiently and model the traceability information need to be captured. This article identified Chinese domestic sheep meat supply chain and proposed the Petri nets and UML based modeling approach for identified traceability information and process. This approach followed the definition of state and transition in sheep meat production process. An in‐depth analysis was conducted for the sheep stakeholders and production flow of the sheep meat chain. The state‐transition for the production process and specific traceability information need to be captured were identified including the product, process, quality, and transformation information. Furthermore, traceability functionality requirement and system architecture were presented. System evaluation results illustrate the model can help to provide guidance for standardizing meat product flow and supporting quality traceability management in meat industry. The system can provide making‐decision for the meat product quality and safety control. Practical applications The proposed method could be applied widely in development of traceability system and provided making‐decision for the control of meat product quality and safety.

Traceability to ensure food safety and consumer protection as typified by case studies of three meat processing plants

“…However, the authors concluded that simple IT systems could reduce risk in these enterprises through better implementation of traceability. Yan et al (2018) developed a traceability design based on the HACCP principles and established critical points. They pointed to the need to identify participants in the process request them to collect relevant information to facilitate traceability.…”

Design of Meat Product Safety Information Chain Traceability System Based on UHF RFID

“…Currently, many different system architectures and software designs have been proposed in order to realize the information traceability function in the meat product supply chain. Researchers have proposed to apply RFID technology in different fields such as wine, fish, and meat in order to realize the complete traceability of the food production chain [ 7 ], a pig slaughter data collection scheme to effectively address the issues of harsh environmental conditions and difficulty in the pig slaughter processing process [ 8 ], a Petri net-based and UML-based modeling approach to identify sheep meat traceability information and processes [ 9 ], and the use of DNA technology for traceability systems to prove the origin of Swiss meat [ 10 ]. It is clear that more researchers are focusing on the development of food traceability systems, but they are concentrating more on the technology and method research for a specific object or link and less on the hardware, the connection of various links, and the platform software to realize the whole traceability system.…”

Systematic assessment of food traceability information loss: A case study of the Bangladesh export shrimp supply chain

“…Studies have used qualitative interviews, document analysis and practical observations to map FSC processes and reveal the material flow, information flow and information loss points or CTPs (Gunawan et al, 2018;Yan et al, 2018). Two main shortcomings have been identified with these studies.…”

“…The export shrimp supply chain in Bangladesh is used to demonstrate the proposed methodology. A data collection approach combining qualitative interviews, direct observation and document analysis is adopted Yan et al, 2018). Three main supply chain actors are considered: farm, depot and processor.…”