Ranking the Success Factors to Improve Safety and Security in Sustainable Food Supply Chain Management Using Fuzzy AHP

Abstract

Safety and security in food sector is a big problem in present days. Companies are spending a huge amount of money in safety and security to minimize the food losses. The present work mainly focuses for the improvement of safety and security in Sustainable Food Supply Chain Management (SFSCM). Initially, nine success factors (SFs) relevant to safety and security in SFSCM execution were determined on the basis of literature survey and from expert’s opinion. Therefore, a commonly used multi criteria decision making (MCDM) tool, fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is utilized as a method in this work for finding relative importance of among the SFs. Fuzzy AHP is a powerful tool which reduces uncertainty or biasness in the human made judgments between the factors. Packaging and government policies are found to be important success factors in safety and security for implementation of SFSCM. The proposed model can help the practitioners and mangers to plan a long term strategies in efficiently implementing a sustainable food supply chain.