Organised agri-food (apple) supply chain in Indian scenario: reality or myth?
19 Nov 2012-International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling (Inderscience Publishers Ltd)-Vol. 4, pp 359-378
TL;DR: Over view of how existing apple supply chains is working in India and various businesses associated with it is provided to provide an over view of whether unorganised and big retail chains dependency on each other for apple supply chain.
Abstract: Numerous issues are being raised towards survival of unorganised retailing or whole sale markets vis-a-vis organised agri-food retail in India. The purpose of present study is to provide an over view of how existing apple supply chains is working in India and various businesses associated with it. The study is of exploratory in nature and explores unorganised and big retail chains dependency on each other for apple supply chain. The paper also describes production and price curves from farm to end customer for India descriptive research. The primary information was collected through personal interview and by observation method and secondary data is collected from APMC and other published sources. The paper brings forth factors for maximising return on investment to excel in unorganised business and impact of agri-food retail chains on unorganised retailing in India. The paper also discusses innovations in unorganised retail sector and concludes with hurdles and challenges for establishment of organised retailing in India. Supply chain partners will be able to understand the business better as well as will be able to further increase their business and profits.
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TL;DR: The result shows that all identified issues at farmers' level are developing positive relationships and provides suggestive IT solutions to them which will help in overall development of farmers involved in sugarcane production.
Abstract: The study is to identify various issues at farmers' level on the basis of literature review and expert panel discussions for developing suitable relationship between them so that the facilitation of e-applications for optimising cane yield at farmer level can be made possible. A field survey was conducted for checking the relevance level of the identified issues at five-point Likert scale. A total of 30 sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, India were targeted to collect 120 responses from the managers to identify the issues in an unstructured way. For checking the scope of e-applications, a total of 243 respondents were collected randomly from 183 farmers and rest from 60 employees of IT companies who provide supply chain solutions. The result shows that all identified issues are developing positive relationships and provides suggestive IT solutions to them which will help in overall development of farmers involved in sugarcane production.
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...In India, agri-food supply chain is available in broken value chain form (Shah and Samuel, 2012)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the structure of contractual relations between growers and first handlers in California fruit and vegetable markets and identified four generic instruments (input control, field visits, quality measurement, and residual price risk) which are used to coordinate relations between buyers and sellers and which help to alleviate information asymmetries and align incentives between contracting parties.
Abstract: This article examines the structure of contractual relations between growers and first handlers in California fruit and vegetable markets. Evidence on existing structures is collected from on-site interviews and from a small mail survey of market intermediaries who contract with independent growers. Four generic instruments are identified—input control, field visits, quality measurement, and residual price risk—which are used to coordinate relations between growers and first handlers and which help to alleviate information asymmetries and align incentives between contracting parties. Drawing from our interviews and survey, we offer examples of how each of these instruments are employed.
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...In order to guarantee reliable supply, supermarkets prefer going for long term arrangements with the producers to reduce information and transportation costs as well as to smoothen the supply (Hueth et al., 1999)....
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...Lack of flow of information leads to such a situation and the end customers are the sufferers as they need to pay the price (Hueth et al., 1999)....
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...The choice of procurement strategies by supermarkets and whole-sellers critically depend upon the existing SC structure as well as government policies existing in the particular country (Dorward, 2001; Pitelis, 1993)....
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TL;DR: The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that affect the suppliers’ satisfaction in buyer-supplier relationships and explore their relationships with suppliers” satisfaction.
Abstract: Supplier performance evaluation in buyer-supplier relationships from the buyer perspective is an important research issue among researchers and practitioners. Many studies have been conducted to measure the buyer’s satisfaction with the supplier’s performance in buyer-supplier relationships. However, very few studies present in the literature that deal with measurement of suppliers’ satisfaction in buyer-supplier relationships. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that affect the suppliers’ satisfaction in buyer-supplier relationships and explore their relationships with suppliers’ satisfaction. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 300 suppliers organisation. Based on the influencing factors, four hypotheses were developed and tested in the framework of structural equation modelling.
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TL;DR: The result shows that all identified issues at farmers' level are developing positive relationships and provides suggestive IT solutions to them which will help in overall development of farmers involved in sugarcane production.
Abstract: The study is to identify various issues at farmers' level on the basis of literature review and expert panel discussions for developing suitable relationship between them so that the facilitation of e-applications for optimising cane yield at farmer level can be made possible. A field survey was conducted for checking the relevance level of the identified issues at five-point Likert scale. A total of 30 sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, India were targeted to collect 120 responses from the managers to identify the issues in an unstructured way. For checking the scope of e-applications, a total of 243 respondents were collected randomly from 183 farmers and rest from 60 employees of IT companies who provide supply chain solutions. The result shows that all identified issues are developing positive relationships and provides suggestive IT solutions to them which will help in overall development of farmers involved in sugarcane production.
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