Leveraging the Dynamics of Food Supply Chains towards Avenues of Sustainability

Ali Saeed Almuflih, Janpriy Sharma, Mohit Tyagi, Arvind Bhardwaj, Mohamed Rafik Noor Mohamed Qureshi and Nawaf Khan
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Ali Saeed Almuflih: Industrial Engineering Department, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia
Janpriy Sharma: Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 144011, India
Mohit Tyagi: Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 144011, India
Arvind Bhardwaj: Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 144011, India
Mohamed Rafik Noor Mohamed Qureshi: Industrial Engineering Department, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia
Nawaf Khan: Department of Supply Chain Management, University of Jeddah, Alfiasaliyah St., Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 12, 1-15

Abstract: Increased globalization and the surging count of the population across the world indicate the need for more sustainable supply chains, especially those allied with the food industry. Nowadays, the demand for processed food items is increasing and establishing new markets globally. The sequence of activities starting from the farm and ending at the fork determines the sustainability within processed food supply chain (FSC) dynamics. Emphasizing sustainability-based performance systems in the processed FSC marks an effective and efficient utilization of resources, strengthening the dimension of economic, environmental, and societal benefits. The presented work aimed to review the avenues for adopting sustainability in the actions of Indian processed FSCs. For the same relation hierarchical models, clustering the various key enactors of sustainability in processed FSCs, every functional tier was developed. This relational, hierarchical framework was contemplated by implying the Pythagorean fuzzy set. The proposed methodology handled the mutual interrelation between the enactors and the uncertainty associated with human judgments, establishing the sequence of sustainability enactors. Outcomes of the presented study have implications in developing the framework, policy formulation, decisional attributes, facilitating field practitioners in streamlining, and embedding sustainability within the actions of processed FSCs.

Keywords: food supply chain; sustainable food supply chains; Pythagorean fuzzy sets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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