Food Loss Factors in the Cold Supply Chain: a Case Study in the Poultry Sector

• Authors: Imen Ayadi , Mohamed Ali Elleuch , Ahmed Frikha

Abstracts

EN

Food loss is one of the challenges in the cold chain (CC), which can lead to serious problems with human safety, environment, and economies around the world. Recently, reducing food loss has drawn public attention; previous studies mostly gave attention to food loss drivers in the retailer-consumer stages of the supply chain. In this study, we focused on identifying food-loss-factors (FLF) all over the CC, and developed an approach based on multi decision-making methods and fuzzy sets to rank FLFs by those who have more influence on food loss in the poultry sector. The first phase concerns the identification of FLFs based on the literature as well as experts opinions in the poultry field. Then fuzzy Delphi method was implemented to reach the consistency level of >75% among all the group members. In the second phase, fuzzy AHP method was employed for the weighting of FLFs, in order to rank them. For the validation of our contribution, a sensitivity analysis was performed. This research presents a guide for decision makers in the CC to help them make an efficient strategy plan to reduce food loss during logistic activities.

Keywords

EN

cold chain (CC); food loss factors (FLF); MCDM; poultry supply chain; sensitivity analysis

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
• Journal: Multiple Criteria Decision Making
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 18
• Pages: 5-28

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Imen Ayadi

• University of Sfax, Tunisia

author

Mohamed Ali Elleuch

• University of Sfax, Tunisia

author

Ahmed Frikha

• University of Sfax, Tunisia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.22367/mcdm.2023.18.01

Biblioteka Nauki

33914803