Guidani B., Ronzoni M., Accorsi R. (2024). Virtual agri-food supply chains: a holistic digital twin for sustainable food ecosystem design, control and transparency. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 01/05/2024, vol. 46, p. 161-179.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2024.01.016
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2024.01.016
Titre : | Virtual agri-food supply chains: a holistic digital twin for sustainable food ecosystem design, control and transparency (2024) |
Auteurs : | B. Guidani ; M. Ronzoni ; R. Accorsi |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Sustainable Production and Consumption (vol. 46, May 2024) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 161-179 |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Catégories principales 10 - INDUSTRIES ; 10.2 - IAA (en général)Thésaurus IAMM CHAINE D'APPROVISIONNEMENT ; SYSTEME AGROALIMENTAIRE ; NOUVELLE TECHNOLOGIE DE L'INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION ; DURABILITE |
Mots-clés: | JUMEAUX NUMERIQUES |
Résumé : | The transition of Agri-Food Supply Chains (AFSC) toward sustainable patterns able to secure safe, quality, and affordable food whilst preserving natural and anthropogenic ecosystems is a key challenge of this century. Increasing production and distribution operations' transparency and impact visibility uncovers hidden complexities and the food ecosystem's externalities. To this attempt, this paper introduces a novel Agri-Food Supply Chain digital twin (AFSC-DT) able to virtualize the agricultural, processing, warehousing, and distribution operations holistically from-field-to-consumer and estimate economic, logistic, environmental, safety, and nutritional indicators associated with any food order, assumed as the functional unit. The AFSC-DT behaves as a control tower, providing a multi-dimensional dashboard of indicators and labels to enhance practitioners' and consumers' knowledge of FSC entities and operations. The practitioner's visibility drives top-down operational and tactical feedback controls through real-time monitoring and a-posteriori multi-dimensional performance analysis, whilst consumers, with their informed choices, perform a strategic bottom-up pressure on the food industry toward a sustainable redesign. A what-if simulation analysis conducted over four virtual scenarios within a regional horticultural AFSC proves how the AFSC-DT aids informed decision-making across the AFSC echelons, stimulating a virtuous cycle and favoring a progressive transition toward more sustainable patterns. |
Cote : | En ligne |
URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2024.01.016 |