Risk Management in Agri-Food Chain

Agri-Supply Chain Management

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...

Information Management in Agri-food Chains

The establishment and management of information infrastructures in chains and beyond is a prerequisite for the implementation of the emerging comprehensive requirements on tracking, tracing and quality assurance in agriculture and the food sector. They support the guarantee of food safety and the focus on consumers’ quality needs. The challenge for the sector is the agreement on, and the implem...

Technological Implications of Supply Chain Practices in Agri-Food Sector: A Review

Today, the global business environment compels enterprises to consider rest of the world in their competitive strategy analysis where firms ignore external factors such as economic trends, competitive positions or technology advancement in other countries. While going truly global with supply chain management, a company develops product in the United States, produce in India and trade in Europe...

Evaluation on Service Ability of Agri-Food Supply Chain

This study aims to develop a comprehensive framework to evaluate the service ability of agri-food supply chain based on Chinese food industry. We develop an evaluation index system with five aspects resepectively, transportation, wareshousing & storage, customer response, distribution and information level. With analytic hierarchy process to identify the weight of each index, we apply fuzzy com...