Review
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Jian Chen, Yuxi Guo, Xianlong Zhang, Jianghua Liu, Pin Gong, Zhuoqun Su, Lihua Fan, Guoliang Li
Summary: Nanoparticles have small size, high surface activity, and antibacterial and antioxidant properties, making them widely used in the food industry. However, their migration from the environment to food increases the exposure risk to humans. Carbon-based NPs, nanoselenium NPs, and rare earth oxide NPs are three emerging NPs that are commonly used in the food industry. The potential risk mechanisms and absorption pathways of NPs into the human body are discussed.
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sachin Kumar Mangla, Arijit Bhattacharya, Alok Kumar Yadav, Yogesh Kumar Sharma, Alessio Ishizaka, Sunil Luthra, Ratula Chakraborty
Summary: This study identifies 25 challenges to food safety initiatives in emerging economies, including organizational, government and policy, global, knowledge, and financial aspects. Government and policy challenges are prioritized as key challenges, followed by organizational, global, knowledge and financial challenges. The results provide insights for supply chain managers on the importance of synergy between government policymakers and industry players in these economies.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Saurabh Ardra, Mukesh Kumar Barua
Summary: This study identifies barriers to closed-loop food supply chain and establishes causal relationships among them using the Grey DEMATEL methodology. Traceability issues, limited expertise in information and technology, poor logistic network design, and high installation and operational cost of updated facilities were found to be the most influential factors.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sudhanshu Joshi, Manu Sharma, Banu Y. Ekren, Yigit Kazancoglu, Sunil Luthra, Mukesh Prasad
Summary: Food waste reduction and security are major concerns in agri-food supply chains, as more than a third of global food production is wasted or lost due to mismanagement. Resilient food supply chains need to address challenges such as resource scarcity, climate change, and waste generation. This study explores supply chain innovations, using SWARA analysis, to identify the most significant innovations for developing resilient food supply chains. The results highlight the importance of business strategy and technological innovations in bringing resilience to food supply chains.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jianli Luo, Shujuan Leng, Yanhu Bai
Summary: This study analyzed the relevant literature on food safety in the food supply chain, revealing the current status, hotspots, and development trends. The findings suggest that food supply chain management, particularly when combined with blockchain technology for traceability, may become a future hot topic. The study provides recommendations for academics and relevant government departments in food supply chain safety research.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Business
Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, Simonov Kusi-Sarpong, Syed Imran Zaman, Syed Hasnain Alam Kazmi
Summary: This study aims to identify key social sustainable supply chain indicators in the food sector of Pakistan and use the DEMATEL methodology to evaluate them. The results highlight the importance of work-life balance as a key cause indicator and a safe and healthy working environment as a key effect indicator in the food industry. These findings can guide managers and policymakers in formulating strategies for advancing social sustainability and achieving a truly sustainable supply chain.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Business
Claudia Cozzio, Giampaolo Viglia, Linda Lemarie, Stefania Cerutti
Summary: Blockchain enhances consumer trust and attitudes towards food traceability, while suppliers hesitate to adopt the technology due to organizational support and data sharing concerns.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Helen Rogers, Mohit Srivastava
Summary: 3D printing technology is revolutionizing supply chains and enabling personalisation in manufacturing, including the food production sector. Growing consumer awareness about sustainability and customised nutrition have driven research in the food industry, leading to the emergence of 3D food printing technology.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Jasna Mastilovic, Dragan Kukolj, Zarko Kevresan, Gordana Ostojic, Renata Kovac, Marina Deric, Dragana Ubiparip Samek
Summary: This study collects, describes, and analyzes a patent portfolio in the field of blockchain technology application in the food supply chain using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) modeling. The analysis reveals four key areas of patented inventions: tracing and tracking, devices and methods, combination with other ICT technologies, and trading. The number of patent applications significantly increased after 2019, indicating a growing number of potential users in the food supply chain. China, India, and the US have the largest numbers of patents.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Zhilong Kang, Yuchen Zhao, Lei Chen, Yanju Guo, Qingshuang Mu, Shenyi Wang
Summary: This paper introduces the application of hyperspectral imaging and machine learning in the food supply chain. By nondestructively and efficiently evaluating the quality and sensory characteristics of food, it can meet the demand for real-time food information in the market. This technology has a wide range of applications in sorting, packaging, transportation, storage, and sales, and has the potential for further optimization.
FOOD ENGINEERING REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Nikitha Modupalli, Mohan Naik, C. K. Sunil, Venkatachalapathy Natarajan
Summary: The growing concerns about food quality and safety among consumers have increased the need for food authentication to combat different types of food frauds. Spices, as high-value products, are often adulterated, posing serious health risks and economic damage. Non-destructive quality testing methods like spectroscopic and artificial sensing techniques have been proven useful in detecting adulterations in spices efficiently.
TRENDS IN FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Dheeraj Sharma, Amol Singh, Ashwani Kumar, Venkatesh Mani, V. G. Venkatesh
Summary: This study focuses on the challenges of procuring food grains from farmers during the COVID-19 outbreak, proposing a new mathematical model that considers government guidelines and personal distancing. Tested in India, the model was found to be highly effective in emergency situations. Future research could potentially expand the model to include the distribution segment of the supply chain network.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Vera Lavelli
Summary: This paper discusses the advantages of applying circular supply chains in the food system, the impact on food safety, and proposes management solutions. Circular food supply chains have the potential to generate added-value foods, but also come with new risks that require a comprehensive research approach to address.
TRENDS IN FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Business
Michele Morais Oliveira Pereira, Minelle E. Silva, Linda C. Hendry
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply chain sustainability learning, focusing on the changes in sustainability initiatives of emerging economy suppliers. Through studying three scenarios over a nine-month period, it was observed that suppliers prioritized social sustainability and developed initiatives without external support. This led to stronger relationships with buyers and multiple levels of learning related to planning, new procedures, and social awareness.
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Adnan Iftekhar, Xiaohui Cui
Summary: This article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy, especially through the spread in food supply chains, and proposes a blockchain-enabled supply chain architecture to ensure food safety and quality.
Review
Food Science & Technology
Vinicius Antonio Machado Nardi, Daniel Pedro Auler, Rafael Teixeira
JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE
(2020)
Review
Food Science & Technology
Vinicius Antonio Machado Nardi, Rafael Teixeira, Wagner Junior Ladeira, Fernando de Oliveira Santini
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Aria Shahsavar, J. Kiarash Sadeghi, Jeff Shockley, Divesh Ojha
Summary: This research examines shipbuilding production processes from a lean scheduling perspective, developing an analytical model that minimizes overproduction and waiting time to improve cost performance in the industry. The proposed lean scheduling approach showed significant reduction in waste and performance improvement compared to traditional scheduling approaches commonly used in shipbuilding.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Sally A. Santen, Jeff Smith, Jeff Shockley, John W. Cyrus, Kimberly D. Lomis, Martin Pusic, George C. Mejicano, Luan Lawson, Bradley L. Allen, Susan Skochelak
Summary: The study examined the patterns of educational innovation collaboration among the members of the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium. It found that the members produced a variety of publications in different domains, with a network of relationships expanding over time both within and beyond the Consortium.
Article
Management
Xiaojin Liu, Ying Kou, Jeff Shockley, Jeffery S. Smith
Summary: This article examines the impact of supplier CSR performance on expanding relationships with major buyers. The study finds that environmental and product performance positively relate to greater customer dependence and improved financial performance for suppliers, but the effect weakens under demand-driven and supply-side uncertainty.
Article
Business
Rafael Teixeira, Andre Luis de Castro Moura Duarte, Flavio Romero Macau, Fernanda Marinuzzi de Oliveira
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between ship-to-store retailing and brick-and-mortar store performance in an emerging economy. The study finds that customer satisfaction with brick-and-mortar stores moderates the effect of ship-to-store transactions on store revenue, and store convenience, size, and inventory transparency also moderate the impact of ship-to-store online customers on store cross-sales.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RETAIL & DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Business
Rafael Teixeira, Renato Przyczynski, Jeff Shockley
Summary: This paper introduces the concept of B2B buyer operational capability (B2B-BOC) and its significance in service continuity. Survey data from 300 buyers in Brazil is used to test the hypothesis, showing that B2B-BOC completely mediates the effect of supplier information quality on service continuity, and there are significant variations in B2B-BOC among facilities of the same buyer.
Article
Business
Rafael Teixeira, Juliana Ballin Suzin, Diego Augusto de Jesus Pacheco, Juliana Bonomi Santos
Summary: This study proposes an empirical taxonomy to classify KIBS buying companies based on their capacity to absorb knowledge. It also assesses how their knowledge absorption profile influences the importance they attribute to KIBS purchases.
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Management
Rafael Marques, Rafael Teixeira, Daniel P. Lacerda, Fabio S. Piran
Summary: This study examines the relationships between buyers and suppliers in the outsourcing service industry and their impact on service productivity. Through evaluating the importance of outputs and inputs for service productivity, as well as the service characteristics of each B2B, the study finds that some choices made by buyers are not optimal for suppliers. Managers can utilize buyer and transaction data to identify the contribution of each B2B buyer to productivity and design better service contracts.
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Business
Maryam Mahdikhani, Mahdieh Mahdikhani, Marvin Gonzalez, Rafael Teixeira
Summary: This study systematically reviews the current state of research on the application of high technology in supply chain management. It identifies key topics, trends, and influential scholars in this field, providing a knowledge structure for future research. This study contributes to advancing the understanding of how high technology can enhance SCM and informs future research endeavors.
MANAGEMENT DECISION
(2023)
Article
Management
Jeffery S. Smith, Jeff Shockley, Sidney Anderson, Xiaojin (Jim) Liu
Summary: Healthcare providers are expected to compete in financial productivity and patient experience. This study explores how emergency departments can improve efficiency and care quality by managing patient flow stages, specifically focusing on the value of physician-directed evaluation time.
Article
Management
Murilo Branco, Rafael Teixeira, Saif Mir, Daniel P. Lacerda
Summary: This research examines the mismatch between the strategic importance of a port operator's customers and their perceptions of supply chain integration (SCI). The study found that most companies have a mismatch, with low-importance customers perceiving a high level of SCI due to the port operator's operational investments in its important customers.
TRANSPORTATION JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Business
Divesh Ojha, Jeff Shockley, Pamela P. Rogers, Danielle Cooper, Pankaj C. Patel
Summary: This paper establishes and tests a model of buyer-supplier relational investment that connects supply chain integration (SCI) with supplier flexibility performance (SFLEX) advantages in various manufacturing environments. It finds that social exchange investments in relationship stability and information quality fully mediate the positive performance relationship between supply chain integration and supplier flexibility performance. However, the relative importance of different forms of investment in enhancing supplier flexibility performance varies depending on the manufacturer's order fulfillment environment.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL MARKETING
(2021)
Article
Emergency Medicine
John Cyrus, Sally Santen, Chris Merritt, Brendan Munzer, WIlliam Peterson, Jeff Shockley, Jeffrey Love
WESTERN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
(2020)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Hiroshi Matsuhisa, Nobuo Matsubayashi
Summary: This study investigates the formation of an alliance between competing manufacturers and a monopolistic platform retailer, and analyzes the impact of the degree of differentiation among manufacturers on the formation of the alliance and the profitability of the retailer.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Lingxuan Kong, Ge Zheng, Alexandra Brintrup
Summary: Supply Chain Financing is used to optimize cash flows in supply networks, but recent scandals have shown inefficiencies in risk evaluation. This paper proposes a Federated Learning framework to address order-level risk evaluation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Jing Gu, Xinyu Shi, Junyao Wang, Xun Xu
Summary: The asymmetric market power between a firm and its partners negatively affects the firm's financial performance. Building relationships with suppliers or customers that have matched market power is the best approach. The strength of the buyer-supplier relationship amplifies the negative impact of asymmetric market power, while the level of relationship embeddedness reduces its negative effect. Moreover, firm-specific institutional, industry, and regional economic heterogeneities also influence the financial impact of asymmetric market power.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Yu Du, Jun-qing Li
Summary: This study investigates the group scheduling of a distributed flexible job shop problem using the concrete precast process. The proposed solution utilizes three coordinated double deep Q-networks (DQN) as a learn-to-improve reinforcement learning approach. The algorithm shows superiority in minimizing costs and energy consumption.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Xiaoyu Yan, Weihua Liu, Ou Tang, Jiahe Hou
Summary: This study analyzes the market amplification effect and the impact of entrant's overconfidence on a two-sided platform. The results show that overconfident entrants can lead to price increases and benefit both the existing firms and themselves to a certain extent.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Illya Kaynov, Marijn van Knippenberg, Vlado Menkovski, Albert van Breemen, Willem van Jaarsveld
Summary: The One-Warehouse Multi-Retailer (OWMR) system is a typical distribution and inventory system. Previous research has focused on heuristic reordering and allocation strategies, which are time-consuming and problem-specific. This paper proposes a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithm for OWMR problems, which infers a multi-discrete action distribution and improves performance with a random rationing policy.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Yimeng Sun, Ruozhen Qiu, Minghe Sun
Summary: This study considers a multi-period inventory management problem for a retailer offering limited-time discounts and having a joint service-level requirement under demand uncertainty. It proposes a double-layer iterative approach to solve the problem and maximize total profit while balancing the service level using a posteriori method and an affinely adjustable robust chance-constrained model.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Anas Neumann, Adnene Hajji, Monia Rekik, Robert Pellerin
Summary: This paper presents a new mathematical formulation for planning and scheduling activities of Engineer-To-Order (ETO) projects, along with a new ETO strategy to reduce the impacts of design uncertainty. The study proposes a hybrid Layered Genetic Algorithm combined with an adaptive Lamarckian learning process (LLGA) and compares it with the branch-and-cut procedure of CPLEX. The results show good performance of the proposed mathematical model for small and medium-sized instances.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Thilini Ranasinghe, Chanaka D. Senanayake, Eric H. Grosse
Summary: Production systems are undergoing transformative changes, necessitating adaptability from human workers. This study developed an analytical model to account for stochastic processing times and learning heterogeneity, revealing insights into system performance.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Sunil Tiwari, Pankaj Sharma, Ashish Kumar Jha
Summary: Black Swan events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Suez Canal blockage have a significant impact on firms' technology adoption decisions, especially in terms of disruptions and digitalization in the supply chains. This study investigates the influence of institutional forces and environmental contingencies on supply chain digitalization from an institutional and contingency theory perspective. The findings emphasize the importance of organizational readiness and people readiness, including top management involvement and employee training, in facilitating digitalization.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Fabio Neves-Moreira, Pedro Amorim
Summary: Omnichannel retailers are using stores as distribution centers to provide faster online order fulfillment services. However, in-store picking operations can impact the offline customer experience. To address this, we propose a Dynamic In-store Picker Routing Problem (diPRP) that minimizes customer encounters while fulfilling online orders. Our solution approach combines mathematical programming and reinforcement learning to find efficient picking policies that reduce customer encounters.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Richard Kraude, Ram Narasimhan
Summary: In this study, the relationship between Vertical Integration (VI) and Environmental Performance (EP) is examined, revealing that highly integrated firms produce less waste but engage in fewer environmental initiatives. These findings are crucial for understanding the impact of stakeholder exposure on organizational behavior.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Korina Katsaliaki, Sameer Kumar, Vasilis Loulos
Summary: This research conducts a systematic literature review (SLR) and content analysis on Supply Chain Coopetition (SCC) through the PRISMA framework. It examines the theory of coopetition and organizational relationships in intra-firm and inter-firm supply chains, focusing on collaboration between rival manufacturers. The study identifies structures and mechanisms of coopetition, such as buyer-supplier coopetition, supply networks coopetition, and production and distribution/logistics coopetition. It provides a holistic approach to SCC management practices and serves as a guide for future research.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2024)
