TY - JOUR
T1 - RFID-enabled traceability system for perishable food supply chains
AU - Zhu, Lijing
AU - Lee, Chulung
N1 - Funding Information:
The work was supported by the Ministry of Education in China (MOE) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (Project No. 15YJC630195). In addition, this research was supported under the framework of international cooperation program managed by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2016K2A9A2A11938449) and supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2015R1D1A1A09058818).
Publisher Copyright:
© International Journal of Industrial Engineering.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Food traceability has attracted great attentions due to increasing concerns over food safety and quality. This study analyzes an RFID-enabled traceability system for perishable food supply chains, which consist of an upstream supplier and a downstream retailer. The deployment of RFID enables constant monitoring of the parameters that are critical to the quality and the safety of food and therefore provides real-time food quality data. Based on the quality of food when it arrives at the retailer, the supplier sets the wholesale price and the retailer determines price markdowns, accordingly. We develop a decision-making mechanism for a perishable food supply chain when demand depends on the price, the quality, and the safety of perishable food. We further propose an incentive scheme to coordinate the decentralized system. Numerical analysis is conducted to provide managerial insights in terms of RFID deployment in the perishable food supply chain.
AB - Food traceability has attracted great attentions due to increasing concerns over food safety and quality. This study analyzes an RFID-enabled traceability system for perishable food supply chains, which consist of an upstream supplier and a downstream retailer. The deployment of RFID enables constant monitoring of the parameters that are critical to the quality and the safety of food and therefore provides real-time food quality data. Based on the quality of food when it arrives at the retailer, the supplier sets the wholesale price and the retailer determines price markdowns, accordingly. We develop a decision-making mechanism for a perishable food supply chain when demand depends on the price, the quality, and the safety of perishable food. We further propose an incentive scheme to coordinate the decentralized system. Numerical analysis is conducted to provide managerial insights in terms of RFID deployment in the perishable food supply chain.
KW - Food safety
KW - Food traceability system
KW - Perishable food management
KW - Radio frequency identification (RFID)
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042729355
SN - 1072-4761
VL - 25
SP - 54
EP - 66
JO - International Journal of Industrial Engineering : Theory Applications and Practice
JF - International Journal of Industrial Engineering : Theory Applications and Practice
IS - 1
ER -
