Measuring agri-food supply chain performance: insights from the Peruvian kiwicha industry

A conceptual framework for supply chain collaboration: empirical evidence from the agri-food industry

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the concept of supply chain collaboration and to provide an overall framework that can be used as a conceptual landmark for further empirical research. In addition, the concept is explored in the context of agri-­‐‐food industry and particularities are identified. Finally, the paper submits empirical evidence from an exploratory case study in the...

Evaluation on The Risk of Chinese Agri-Food Supply Chain

There is a huge potential risk on agri-food supply chain due to the specific complex nature of agricultural products. Agri-food supply chain has such character as structural complexity, market uncertainty, market power imbalance and vulnerability. Agri-food supply chain risks mainly represent to technical risks, information risks, organizational management risks and security risks. Based on end...

Measuring Supply Chain Performance

In the last years performance evaluation issues have attracted the attention of many researchers and companies worldwide. However, most studies are still conducted focusing only on the manufacturing processes performance and associated with financial indicators. Currently an important question is the necessity of expanding the concepts of performance evaluation to the supply chains, in order to...

Agri-Supply Chain Management

A Knowledge Network and Mobilisation Framework for Lean Supply Chain Decisions in Agri-Food Industry

Making the right decisions for food supply chain is extremely important towards achieving sustainability in agricultural businesses.This paper explores that knowledge sharing to support foodsupplychaindecisionstoachieveleanperformance(i.e.toreduce/eliminatenon-value-adding activities,or“waste”inleanterm).Thefocusofthepaperisondefiningnewknowle...