Agricultural Products Supply Chain Research Articles

How Does Suppliers’ Fairness Affect the Relationship Quality of Agricultural Product Supply Chains?

Although many studies have suggested that the relationship between different supply chain members significantly affects agricultural product quality, suppliers’ perceptions of fairness, which greatly influence their decisions on building the relationship quality, are often overlooked. Particularly, the empirical evidence to investigate the impacts of suppliers’ fairness on the relationship quality and the factors that affect the suppliers’ fairness is missing, and therefore this knowledge gap needs to be filled by new research. Herein, we conducted a survey of 450 agricultural product suppliers and systemically analyzed the impact of antecedents on fairness perception and the impact of fairness perception on relationship quality. In addition, we developed a structural equation model and found that information sharing and price satisfaction had significantly positive effects on procedural fairness and distributive fairness, respectively. Furthermore, our studies demonstrated that procedural fairness is more important in improving the relationship quality than distributive fairness. However, supplier dependence is another important impact factor, and it greatly decreases the positive effects of suppliers’ fairness on relationship quality. In summary, the study results provide several managerial implications and extend our understanding of the importance of suppliers’ fairness in the relationship quality, which involves product development with respect to the supplier’s performance.

Coordinating of O2O Fresh Agricultural Products Supply Chain with Asymmetric Information When Disturbance Occur Online

With lots of hot money focusing on the field of fresh product, the fresh product e-commerce enterpraises developed rapidly, but quickly declined later. The aim of this paper is to explain the problem form view of supply chain by setting up the model of fresh produce supply chain. The decision model can be obtained including optimal retail price, sales volume and profit of supply chain whether in the condition of centralized decision-making or disperse policy decision. It can draw the conclusion that, in the condition of asymmetric information, price subsidy of the fresh produce O2O supply chain could promote the profit when online sales volume stay lower. Also, the increase of online sales volume results in the decrease of optimal retail price and subsidy price, and modified Wholesale Price Contract can coordinate the supply chain in disperse policy decision. Finally, the advice for enterpraises and supply chain has been listed.

Analysis on Investment Decision of Nano-technology Preservation of Fresh Agricultural Products Supply Chain

Effective freshness-keeping efforts can greatly reduce the loss of fresh agricultural products in the transportation, and decrease the quality loss of fresh agricultural products. The application of nanotechnology to the field of keeping agricultural products fresh can delay product decrease and prolong product life cycle. In this paper, we consider the stochastic market demand and analysis the impact of application about nanotechnology to the supply chain of fresh agricultural products. The difference between nanotechnology preservation and traditional preservation has been discussed. The results show that the application of nanotechnology can increase the benefit of the supply chain of fresh agriculture when the freshness-keeping cost satisfies a certain range.

Three-level supply chain coordination of fresh agricultural products in the Internet of Things

PurposeThe Internet of Things (IoT) is used in the fresh agricultural product (FAP) supply chain, which can be coordinated through a revenue-sharing contract. The purpose of this paper is to make the three-level supply chain coordinate in IoT by considering the influence of FAP on market demand and costs of controlling freshness on the road.Design/methodology/approachA three-level FAP supply chain that comprises a manufacturer, distributor, and retailer in IoT is regarded as the research object. This study improves the revenue-sharing contract, determines the optimal solution when the supply chain achieves maximum profit in three types of decision-making situations, and develops the profit distribution model based on the improved revenue-sharing contract to coordinate the supply chain.FindingsThe improved revenue-sharing contract can coordinate the FAP supply chain that comprises a manufacturer, distributor, and retailer in IoT, as well as benefit all enterprises in the supply chain.Practical implicationsResource utilization rate can be improved after coordinating the entire supply chain. Moreover, loss in the circulation process is reduced, and the circulation efficiency of FAPs is improved because of the application of IoT. The validity of the model is verified through a case analysis.Originality/valueThis study is different from other research in terms of the combination of supply chain coordination, FAPs, and radio frequency identification application in IoT.

Optimization Analysis of Agricultural Product Supply Chain From the Perspective of Internet

Optimization Analysis of Agricultural Product Supply Chain From the Perspective of Internet

Research on Coordination Mechanism and Low-Carbon Technology Strategy for Agricultural Product Supply Chain

As the future orientation of economic and agricultural development, low-carbon agriculture is devoted to reducing the energy inputs and greenhouse gas emissions during the agriculture production. So, it's urgent to take some actions to transit from the current high carbon economy to a low-carbon and high resource efficient economy. This paper examines a two-echelon agricultural product supply chain with a producer and a processor and the market demand is influenced by the retail price and the level of low-carbon technology. The optimal solutions in the decentralized and centralized agricultural product supply chain with or without low-carbon technology are studied. To make the decentralized agricultural product supply chain perform as well as the centralized agricultural product supply chain, the coordination mechanism of the low-carbon supply chain that few of papers focused explicitly on is designed. Finally, extensive numerical experiments are conducted to study the behaviors of supply chain members.

Research on the Operation Mode of Agricultural Products Supply Chain in Hainan Province under the Environment of Electronic Commerce

Currently, the development of Hainan agricultural products supply chain is still in its infancy, agricultural products supply chain management mode based on electronic commerce has not yet been established. In the face of increasingly complex competition environment and a more extensive competition, static, the structure of the complex supply chain of agricultural products cannot meet the continuous competition in the market environment, the changing of environment change and the request of the customer requirements vary widely. Therefore, constructing Hainan agricultural products supply chain management in e-commerce environment is realistic and urgent operation model.

Research on the Operation Mode of Agricultural Products Supply Chain in Hainan Province under the Environment of Electronic Commerce

Research on the Operation Mode of Agricultural Products Supply Chain in Hainan Province under the Environment of Electronic Commerce

Traceability System of Agricultural Products for Small and Medium-sized Farmers: Motivation Perspective

The safety of agricultural products has become increasingly prominent, but the participants in the supply chain of agricultural products are in a dilemma lacking of motivation in the construction of the traceability system. This paper summarizes the definition and origin of the tracing motivation, and analyzes the main motivation based on information sharing demand and product differentiation demand. Accordingly, it builds agricultural traceability system and designs process, then evaluate the application effect of the system. The traceability system of agricultural products is the concrete realization of food safety traceability system, which is of great significance to food safety management.

Modelos de Localización para Cadenas Agroalimentarias Perecederas: una Revisión al Estado del Arte

Context: The problem of locating facilities in supply chains of perishable agricultural products has not been widely addressed, however, this issue in recent years has taken great interest because of concerns about the consumption of fresh and healthy food, important aspect in countries with fruits food producer potential. Method: A systematic review of the state of the art on facility location problems for perishable agricultural products was conducted. The following databases were searched: Science Direct, IEEE Xplore, SpringerLink, JSTOR, Scopus and Google Scholar. From an initial collection of 135 papers obtained with a generic search query for food location, 31 were finally selected for review focusing on food supply chain location model, within a publication date ranging from 2004 to 2015. Results: Based on the review, a typology of variables considered and not considered in models pertinent to conditions relevant to countries such as Colombia, is proposed. Objective functions commonly used, specific restrictions for Food Supply Chain (FSC) and logistical drivers most commonly considered in these models were also identified. Future research, regarding variables to be included in FSC models location for perishables in context of mountainous countries were identified.Conclusions: Strategic decisions such as the location of facilities are of great importance for the design of the fresh food supply chain and its network, given the perishability. However, the issue has been poorly evaluated especially due to the difficulty of modeling and the large number of variables to consider in this type of chain. Models that include the perishability, losses and stochastic behavior of some variables are required. Colombia can benefit from more research in location models of perishable food, particularly the impact on perishability due to its particular conditions of great variety of climates, mountainous landscapes along with a limited transport and road infrastructure.

Research on Influence Factors of Cooperatives Performance in the Agricultural Products Supply Chain Based on System Dynamics

Research on Influence Factors of Cooperatives Performance in the Agricultural Products Supply Chain Based on System Dynamics

O2O - Based Agricultural Products Supply Chain Process Integration Optimization Based on Internet +

Traditional wholesale and retail, electricity supplier of agricultural products supply chain have many difficulties. The O2O supply chain of agricultural products of “Internet+”, committed to the integration of online and offline advantage process, has become the main direction of the agricultural products supply chain transformation. Practice operation results show that O2O supply chain can effectively play the advantages of online and offline process integration, but its further development is still subject to the logistics, information flow of the dispersion, fracture and high cost. The integrated optimization of various regions and various enterprises and all sectors of the supply chain process is the key to optimize the process Internet plus era of agricultural products supply chain.

Research on Supply Chain Coordination of Fresh Agricultural Products under Agricultural Insurance

Based on the fact that the current fresh agricultural products are susceptible to natural risks and the coordination of supply chain is poor, This paper constructs the supply chain profit model under the two models of natural risk and agricultural insurance, Firstly, studying the coordination function of the supply chain system under Two-part Tariff; Then discussing the setting and claiming mechanism of agricultural insurance, compares the influence of agricultural insurance on supply chain profit and supply chain coordination; Finally, giving an example to validate the model results and give decision - making opinions. Research shows that the supply chain of fresh agricultural products can coordinated under Two-part Tariff, but the supply chain cooperation is poor in the natural risk , need to further stabilize and optimize the supply chain; When the risk factor is less than the non-participation insurance coefficient, not to participate in agricultural insurance is conducive to maintaining the coordination of the supply chain system; When the risk coefficient exceeds the non-participation insurance coefficient, the introduction of agricultural insurance can not only effectively manage the natural risks, but also help to improve the coordination of the supply chain system.

Study on Operation Mode of Agricultural Supply Chain in WeChat Business Environment

With the popularity of the Internet and smart phones, it is becoming more and more common to use WeChat to maintain human relationship, share information in life, and sell various kinds of agricultural products at the moment. This paper analyzes the characteristics and current situations of operation mode in agricultural supply chain, and points out the disadvantages of modern agricultural product supply chain model, then puts forward a new operation mode of agricultural supply chain which is based on the Internet, and WeChat is regarded as the medium trading platform for the purpose of shortening the length of the supply chain and ensuring the operation efficient of agricultural supply chain.

The Empirical Study on the Evolutionary Game Based Agricultural Products Supply Chain

This research paper is to use a method of Evolutionary Game to investigate the relationship between a large supplier and a franchised supermarket in China. The authors would like to go through their empirical study with their filtered answers from the survey using SPSS software on agricultural supply chain for their quality safety factors. Their research is using factor analysis with five target factors which are: the excess return, cost, the relative size of cooperative enterprises, hitchhiking, and overflows income. Applying these factors to the evolutionary game model, analyze the earning status from the both players under their own policies, then make suggestions or proposals for quality and safety issues of agricultural supply chain management.

Extended community of peers and robustness of social LCA

This paper questions the robustness of social life cycle analysis (LCA), based on four social LCA case studies. To improve robustness of social LCA, it is a necessity to fight against its weaknesses. The paper addresses three questions: (1) what are its weaknesses? (2) How can they be combated? There are solutions suggested by the Conventions theory. The Conventions theory asserts that people are capable of adopting conventions (agreements between members of a group) to define what is fair and what is not, depending on the problem. The suggested solution consists in creating a new group (which has been called “extended community of peers”), which will define a new convention adapted to each new situation. The third question is, therefore, (3) do we need to resort to an extended community of peers to combat the social LCA weaknesses? To contribute to these debates, we discuss the classification of weaknesses defined by the Roy’s decision-making assistance methods: (1) not dealing with the lack of knowledge, (2) attributing undue preferential meaning to certain data, (3) implementing misleading models, and (4) using meaningless technical parameters. We discuss the literature about creating new conventions thanks to peer involvement. To determine whether the creation of an extended community of peers influences the robustness, we will analyse four case studies (social LCA) which we conducted in 2011, 2012 and 2013. The first ones were conducted in Southern territories, relating to various agricultural products (banana, meat, orange). Another case study comes from a northern region, with the objective of comparing direct local supply systems and large-scale supply chains of various agricultural products. About weaknesses in LCA, we highlight that environmental LCA authors have identified in their own works the same weakness points as Roy had done for other decision-making tools. We display that these weaknesses are present also in the “Guidelines for SLCA of Products” (UNEP-SETAC 2009). About fighting these weaknesses, building an extended community of peers may be a solution, but a conditional one. We cannot draw a general conclusion from such a small number of cases. However, in both case studies where a real community of peers was formed, the initial convention changed, and many weaknesses were mitigated. These changes did not occur in the other two cases, where no community of peers was mobilised. In particular, a relevant and plausible impact assessment was provided in the former two cases, while this was impossible in the latter two. The community of peers seems to function by comparison of a variety of viewpoints. Nevertheless, peer involvement is not the ultimate weapon against the weaknesses of social LCA, as we experienced it. These difficulties highlight the importance of the role of the consultants/researchers conducting the study. It is up to them to distinguish the situations which will lead to failure, from those which are manageable. It is up to them to generate the evaluative question, provide facts and negotiate. The creation of a community of peers does not guarantee that problems will be solved. The consultants and researchers have a particular responsibility in decrypting the power games and unfounded beliefs. Introducing the extended community of peers into the LCA landscape goes against the quest for standardisation. But specifying which convention was chosen does not impair the genericity of the method. On the contrary, the researcher’s critique of their own methods is an integral part of the scientific approach.

Identifikasi dan Evaluasi Risiko Manajemen Rantai Pasok Komoditas Jagung dengan Pendekatan Logika Fuzzy

<p><em>To meet the needs of the national corn on the feed industry that requires a continuous supply of raw materials with a definite quantity throughout the year, in the national maize production conditions </em><em>that </em><em>is not continuous and fluctuating, </em><em>it is </em><em>necessary supply planning and storage methods to avoid the risk of maize corn supply crisis form of food shortages or rising feed prices. One method is to apply the concept of supply chain risk management. The high level of dependence and complexity of networks makes supply chain of agricultural products supply chain is becoming more vulnerable to interference. The risk of supply chain disturbance can occur internally (the relation between the organization with a network of suppliers) and external (between network suppliers with the environment). Therefore it is necessary to identify and evaluate supply chain risks in order to avoid continuing problems that can occur at any point in the supply chain network. The objective of this study is to describe </em><em>the</em><em> model </em><em>of </em><em>identification and evaluation </em><em>for</em><em> maize supply chain risk. This model can be used to identify the dominant risk factors and variables at each level of supply chain so that it will </em><em>be </em><em>obtain</em><em>ed</em><em> appropriate recommendations action to anticipate them. Risk identification will be conducted with fuzzy AHP approach and risk evaluation would be done by using fuzzy logic with data input </em><em>form</em><em> the opinion of several experts maize supply chain.</em><em></em></p>

Factors affecting RFID adoption in the agricultural product distribution industry: empirical evidence from China.

We conducted an exploratory investigation of factors influencing the adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) methods in the agricultural product distribution industry. Through a literature review and field research, and based on the technology–organization–environment (TOE) theoretical framework, this paper analyzes factors influencing RFID adoption in the agricultural product distribution industry in reference to three contexts: technological, organizational, and environmental contexts. An empirical analysis of the TOE framework was conducted by applying structural equation modeling based on actual data from a questionnaire survey on the agricultural product distribution industry in China. The results show that employee resistance and uncertainty are not supported by the model. Technological compatibility, perceived effectiveness, organizational size, upper management support, trust between enterprises, technical knowledge, competitive pressure and support from the Chinese government, which are supported by the model, have significantly positive effects on RFID adoption. Meanwhile, organizational size has the strongest positive effect, while competitive pressure levels have the smallest effect. Technological complexities and costs have significantly negative effects on RFID adoption, with cost being the most significantly negative influencing factor. These research findings will afford enterprises in the agricultural products supply chain with a stronger understanding of the factors that influence RFID adoption in the agricultural product distribution industry. In addition, these findings will help enterprises remain aware of how these factors affect RFID adoption and will thus help enterprises make more accurate and rational decisions by promoting RFID application in the agricultural product distribution industry.

The Research on Influence Factors of Agricultural Products Logistics in Mainland China—The Empirical Analysis based on the Data During 2000-2014

Low efficiency of agricultural products logistics has become one of “bottlenecks” to restrict the further development of agricultural industrialization and rural economy in China. In this paper, upstream-downstream industries factors of agricultural products supply chain is innovatively absorbed into the influence factors framework. And then DEA-SBM model, regression analysis method and DEA-TOBIT model are applied to measure agricultural products logistics efficiency and analyze the three categories of influence factors. The research results show that During two periods of time, the TE level on a national scale was very low, which was basically in the state of inefficiency, which was mainly due to low PTE. Because the PTE is low and the development of agricultural products logistics of most of provincial administrative regions in Mainland China has reached the stage of constant or decreasing scale merit, the enlargement of agricultural production scale can improve the growth of TE level of agricultural products logistics to a certain extent, but the function is not remarkable. On the contrary, the negative relationship has been displayed between the expansion of farming industry scale and agricultural retail businesses and the TE level of agricultural products logistics. Because of the diversity in regional social and environmental factors, the impact of exogenous environmental factors on the TE level of three regions show a certain difference.

Agricultural Products Supply Chain Coordination: Price and Green Level

Research on the coordination of agricultural products' green supply chain has important practical significance for the development of agriculture. In this paper, the problem of the price and the green level of green supply chain of agricultural products is set up by game theory, three models including centralized decision-making, wholesale price contract and revenue sharing contract are analyzed. Results show that the agricultural products green level and the total income in the centralized decision-making model are the highest. The size of the green level and farmer’s profits in the decentralized decision model are determined by the relationship between the parameters of demand responsiveness to green SC’s own price, demand responsiveness to enterprise effort level and enterprise effort costs. The enterprise’s profits in the wholesale price contract model is higher.