Abstract
Fruits are easily damaged, therefore, a tracing system is needed to ensure the commodity is well received by consumers. This study is a systematic review aims to identify areas where the fruits traceability provides the most value for supply chain management and to develop elements of a future research agenda for the fruits traceability in supply chain management. PRISMA or Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses is used to help the systematic literature review. The result showed thad there are several values in applying traceability to the fruit supply chain, such as traceability guarantees the quality of fruit in the supply chain, traceability protects from fraud. Traceability will help increase consumer confidence in food safety, particularly on fruit. Blockchain technology is a promosing technology for a traceability system in industry and can be used successfully, by modifying the supply chain system and meeting the limitations first.
Highlights
IntroductionA tracing system is needed to ensure the commodity is well received by consumers
Fruits are damaged, a tracing system is needed to ensure the commodity is well received by consumers
The objective of this review are: (1) Identify how the traceability provides the most value for fruits supply chain management (2) Identify how the use of blockchain technology could solve them
Summary
A tracing system is needed to ensure the commodity is well received by consumers. A traceability system is needed to overcome several problems, for example the improper use of pesticides and fertilizers on fruits and vegetables which endanger human health. The implementation of traceability for food commodities has been carried out by Walmart. It conducts with the support of blockchain technology by IBM. Walmart has successfully carried out traceability on two commodities, namely porks in China and mangoes in the United States. Traceability carried out with blockchain technology, succeeded in tracing the origin of mangoes from 7 days to just 2.2 seconds and increased transparency (Kamath, 2018)
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