A Virtual Supply Chain Architecture to Grant Product Transparency in Agribusiness

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Author(s): Giulia Bruno (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 19
Source title: Driving Agribusiness With Technology Innovations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Theodore Tarnanidis (University of Macedonia, Greece), Maro Vlachopoulou (University of Macedonia, Greece)and Jason Papathanasiou (University of Macedonia, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2107-5.ch002

Keywords: Agricultural & Food Technologies / Business Science Reference / Environment & Agriculture / Management Science

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Abstract

Especially in the food sector, fraud and counterfeiting are affecting the trust of consumers, who are more and more oriented to chose products basing on quality and traceability attributes rather than the price. Recently, the Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) standard was introduced to provide specifications for the representation of product traceability information. The collection and analysis of such information allows supply chains to be monitored and controlled through virtualization. Several applications of EPCIS were presented in literature, even if most of them are mainly focused on enabling technologies, with less emphasis on assessing how the available information can be used for a control at a higher level. This chapter review the relevant literature available on this topic, and present an architecture allowing the traceability of information about products throughout the entire supply chain by exploiting both the EPCIS standard and a NoSQL database. An application showing the potentiality of the proposed system in a case study is also reported.

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