Developing electronic mango traceability in Indonesia

ABSTRACT

Agricultural production in developing countries needs to meet global traceability requirements to enable food product export. A single case study of a multi-tier supply network provides a detailed description on features of developing traceability of mangoes harvested in Indonesia. This effort involves the integrated, time-limited effort of different professional actors in a project-based network. Developing food product traceability is a boundary-spanning effort; a need to coordinate both actors and the traceability project as an organisational entity. Organising food product traceability importantly involves integration of the different supply network actors as well as the time-limited integration of external actors with technical competence about the traceability system. The case reveals that these technical professionals in addition to organising the project also are decisive in creating an integrated supply network to facilitate the traceability development and system implementation. Findings indicate that developing traceability in developing economies is not much different today than developing this ability in economies commonly labelled as more developed.

KEYWORDS:

• Mango traceability
• information technology use
• boundary spanning
• integration
• supply chains

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

The Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture funded this research through KKP3N schemes which included research collaboration between Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology in Indonesia.

Notes on contributors

Iwan Vanany

Iwan Vanany is Professor of Business Process Re-engineering at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia. He received his Ph.D. degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering and both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Industrial Engineering from ITS. His research interests are in the business process re-engineering/improvement, food supply chain management and operations management. He has published in International Journal of Information System and Supply Chain Management and Meiji Business Journal. He teaches business process re-engineering, supply chain management, logistics management, productions and planning control and enterprise resources planning (ERP).

Ronny Mardiyanto

Ronny Mardiyanto is a lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS). He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Saga University, Japan. His research interests are human–computer interaction and robot vision. He is member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Royyana Muslim Ijtihadie

Royyana M. Ijtihadie is a lecturer at the Department of Informatics, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya, Indonesia. He received his Ph.D. from Kumamoto University, and both master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember. Dr Royyana’s primary interests are in the areas of computer network and architecture and as well as net-centric computing.

Kuntoro Boga Andri

Kuntoro Boga Andri is Senior Researcher of Agricultural Socio-Economics and Policy in the East Java Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology, Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD). He received his Ph.D. from Kagoshima University, Japan, in Agricultural Economics, obtained his M.Agr. in Agricultural Economics and Marketing from Saga University, Japan, and B.Sc. degree from Bogor Agricultural University. Dr Kuntoro has experience conducting agricultural economics and policy research including supply chain management, agribusiness development, strategic marketing and agricultural/regional development. He has worked in the livestock, the dairy industries, horticulture, estate crops and in food crops, focusing on areas such as understanding consumer behaviour, investigating market opportunities for industries, group farming and farmers’ cooperative. He has experience working as collaborating scientist and project coordinator for Bioversity International (CGIAR Consortium), IFAD, ACIAR (Australia), and AVRDC (Taiwan) Project Development. Dr Kuntoro has published in international scientific journals in Japan, USA and Indonesia. He is member of the editorial board of various national and international journals. At the current time, he is often invited and is a Co-supervisor of undergraduate and graduate students of Brawijaya University, Malang.

Per Engelseth

Per Engelseth is an associate professor at Molde University College since 2012. He received his Dr Oecon degree from BI Norwegian School of Management in 2007. His research interests include offshore maritime & petroleum logistics, value chain management, complex responsive processes, lean networks, packaging logistics, CRM and ICT for logistics purposes, product standards and GS1 bar codes/labelling, food safety – quality – traceability. He has published two articles in 2009 and 2012 in The Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and has also published two book chapters. A number of papers included starting in 2002 in conference proceedings including NOFOMA, ISL, IMP, EurOMA, Nordic Workshop on Inter-organizational relations and Chain and network conference (Hosted by Wageningen University). He has predominately his teaching experience within the fields of logistics and supply chain management, Lean and quality management and business marketing.