The food supply chain, following its globalization, has become very complex. Such complexities, introduce factors that influence adversely the quality of intermediate and final products. Strict constraints regarding parameters such as maintenance temperatures and transportation times must be respected in order to ensure top quality and reduce to a minimum the detrimental effects to public health. This is a multi-factorial endeavor and all of the involved stakeholders must accept and manage the logistics burden to achieve the best possible results. However, such burden comes together with additional complexities and costs regarding data storage, business process management and company specific standard operating procedures and as such, automated methods must be devised to reduce the impact of such intrusive operations. For the above reasons, in this paper we present BioTrak: a platform capable of registering and visualizing the whole chain of transformation and transportation processes including the monitoring of cold chain logistics of food ingredients starting from the raw material producers until the final product arrives to the end-consumer. The platform includes Business Process Modelling methods to aid food supply chain stakeholders to optimize their processes and also integrates a blockchain for guaranteeing the integrity, transparency and accountability of the data.
翻译:随着全球化的推进,食品供应链变得非常复杂。这种复杂性会引入对中间和最终产品质量产生负面影响的因素。必须遵守诸如维护温度和运输时间等参数的严格限制,以确保最佳质量并将对公共健康产生的有害影响降至最低。这是一个多因素的工作,所有涉及的利益相关者必须接受和管理物流负担,以实现尽可能好的结果。然而,这样的负担随之而来的是与数据存储、业务流程管理和公司特定标准操作程序相关的额外复杂性和成本,因此必须设计自动化方法以减少这些干扰性操作的影响。出于以上原因,本文介绍了BioTrak:一个平台,能够注册和可视化整个转化和运输过程的链,包括从原材料生产商开始监控食品配料的冷链物流,直到最终产品到达最终消费者。该平台包括业务流程建模方法,以帮助食品供应链利益相关者优化其流程,并集成了区块链以保证数据的完整性、透明性和责任追究能力。