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Virtual agri-food supply chains: A holistic digital twin for sustainable food ecosystem design, control and transparency

Beatrice Guidani; Michele Ronzoni; Riccardo Accorsi

Sustainable Production and Consumption · 2024

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Summary

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-dim

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1016/j.spc.2024.01.016
Catalogue ID
NRmo9zxr64-06k
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