Uniquely and comprehensively explains traceability in the food supply chain by providing business cases, implementation scenarios, and tools for designing, evaluating, supervising and performing traceability business processes.
As the food chain will continue to be global in the foreseeable future, improvements in food safety will dominate the thinking of most of the manufacturers and retailers around the world. The most acute need in improving food safety deals with global traceability or whole-chain traceability. Industry-wide, there is a huge gap of basic knowledge about what traceability is beyond myth or misconceptions. Questions abound. What are the basic requirements and pre-requisites for performing traceability? What is the final scope of traceability? What are the business benefits? How does traceability play a major role in a larger corporate sustainable development strategy?
Traceability in the Food Supply Chain explains how businesses should manage opportunities and challenges related to traceability. At its core are discussions and applications of risk management, product life cycle analysis in the context of sustainability and eco-efficiency, and enhancement of consumer attraction to brands. The authors draw from their management experiences and contributions to setting global food and consumer goods supply chain traceability standards. They outline the business cases, implementation scenarios, and tools for designing, evaluating, supervising and performing traceability business processes. Coverage is extensive and includes a general introduction to traceability; its scope, dimensions and functions; challenges to implementation; calculation of benefits and costs; traceable item definition and identification; serialization and batch aggregation/disaggregation; data organization and exchange; and performance evaluation and readiness scorecards. The only book to specifically explain the ISO 22005 Food Traceability Standard and the GS1 Global Traceability Standard, Traceability in the Food Supply Chain ensures a solid foundational understanding of the hows and whys of food traceability and its benefits to both the business world and to consumers.
