Abstract
The need to trace products in the food supply chain has become one of the most important ways of maintaining improved food safety, ensuring supply chain visibility achieving competitive advantage and boosting the confidence and trust of consumers. While food traceability has become a common and well documented practice in advanced economies such as that of the United States of America, The European Union and Japan, there is however, limited study on the implementation, practice, awareness and standardisation of the concept in developing economies such as Nigeria. Traceability from general understanding is a process or system by which the information about a product is generated, stored and transferred as the product moves from its raw material phase through to the final consumer.
It has been discussed and argued in various supply chain traceability literature that information sharing is one of the key factors critical to the success of any food traceability process as the concept itself is founded on how well actors in the supply chain are able to store, manage and share information while tracking and tracing a product or material as it moves along the chain. However, it has also been deduced from literature that food traceability systems implementation is a major challenge in an industry where a large percentage of the actors in the chain are made up of small businesses that do not have the required financial, technological and human capital to fully implement a traceability system. This study therefore, aims to evaluate the information sharing processes of supply chain traceability on in the Nigerian Food and Beverage supply chains. This will be achieved by assessing the awareness, development and implementation of information sharing and traceability systems and models adopted by 10 Nigerian Food and Beverage manufacturers in Nigeria and how these have helped in enhancing their supply chain visibility and performance.
The Coordination Theory is the theoretical lens by which this study will be conducted and the framework is founded on the TOE (technology, Organisation and Environment) innovation adoption model.
The study adopts the qualitative inductive approach comprising exploratory case-study, critical review of literature and thematic content analysis. Purposive sampling technique is employed and the study sample includes ten food and beverage manufacturing companies operating in Nigeria.
Data collection is by semi-structured interviews, document review, analysis and observation. The practical implication of the research is to bridge the knowledge gap that currently exist in the Nigerian food and beverage supply chain as it relates to information sharing and product traceability systems drawing out relevant implication and advancing new propositions for industry practice for both local and international competitiveness.
It has been discussed and argued in various supply chain traceability literature that information sharing is one of the key factors critical to the success of any food traceability process as the concept itself is founded on how well actors in the supply chain are able to store, manage and share information while tracking and tracing a product or material as it moves along the chain. However, it has also been deduced from literature that food traceability systems implementation is a major challenge in an industry where a large percentage of the actors in the chain are made up of small businesses that do not have the required financial, technological and human capital to fully implement a traceability system. This study therefore, aims to evaluate the information sharing processes of supply chain traceability on in the Nigerian Food and Beverage supply chains. This will be achieved by assessing the awareness, development and implementation of information sharing and traceability systems and models adopted by 10 Nigerian Food and Beverage manufacturers in Nigeria and how these have helped in enhancing their supply chain visibility and performance.
The Coordination Theory is the theoretical lens by which this study will be conducted and the framework is founded on the TOE (technology, Organisation and Environment) innovation adoption model.
The study adopts the qualitative inductive approach comprising exploratory case-study, critical review of literature and thematic content analysis. Purposive sampling technique is employed and the study sample includes ten food and beverage manufacturing companies operating in Nigeria.
Data collection is by semi-structured interviews, document review, analysis and observation. The practical implication of the research is to bridge the knowledge gap that currently exist in the Nigerian food and beverage supply chain as it relates to information sharing and product traceability systems drawing out relevant implication and advancing new propositions for industry practice for both local and international competitiveness.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 21-22 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 6 Apr 2017 |
Event | 2nd Annual Research Conference of the Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED) - University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, United Kingdom Duration: 6 Apr 2017 → 7 Apr 2017 |
Conference
Conference | 2nd Annual Research Conference of the Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED) |
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Abbreviated title | CAREED 2017 |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Paisley |
Period | 6/04/17 → 7/04/17 |