Understanding fish waste management using bibliometric analysis: A supply chain perspective

Food loss and waste have become an issue of global significance, considering their concurrent effects on the socioeconomic and environmental facet of society. Despite this domain gaining prolific attention recently, issues hampering the effective utilization of residues from fish processing usually go unidentified in developing economies such as India. This occurs mainly owing to fragmented supply chains, inappropriate handling, discontinuous cold chains, inadequate temperature monitoring and so on, affecting quality and causing underuse. Any researcher trying to understand the prospects of utilizing these fish processing co-streams in a developing economy with the vision of improving consumption, economic sustainability, reducing discards and promoting circularity faces a lacuna. The authors address this demand in research by identifying the validity of this domain both in the global and native research community by conducting a detailed review using bibliometric analysis and content analysis. Data from Scopus with 717 documents, comprising 612 research articles from 78 countries, 1597 organizations and 2587 authors, are analysed. Results signify (i) developing a focus on hydroxyapatite production, bio-methane generation, transesterification processes, biomass and the rest raw material generated from fish processing, and (ii) reduced research on supply chain-related aspects despite their considerable importance. To comprehend this deficiency, especially in the Indian stance, barriers hindering the utilization of generated by-products are identified, and recommendations for improvements are proposed. The results will provide the struts for a circular and sustainable supply chain for processed seafood in developing economies.publishedVersio

Reprint of "Decision support models for supplier development: Systematic literature review and research agenda"

The continuing trend towards sourcing components and semi-finished goods for less vertically integrated manufacturing systems globally leads to a dramatic increase in supply options for companies. To ensure that companies benefit from the potentials global sourcing offers, supplier-buyer relationships need to be managed efficiently. Due to the decreasing share of value-adding activities provided in-house, suppliers are more and more considered as an essential contributor to the buying company's competitive position. Consequently, to realize and sustain competitive advantages, companies try to establish institutionalized long-term relationships to their most important suppliers and to actively improve the productivity and performance of their supplier base. To support supplier development in practice, researchers have developed decision support models that provide assistance in selecting and implementing suitable supplier development activities. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of decision support models for supplier development and to develop a research agenda that helps to identify promising areas for future research in this area. First, typical applications for supplier development as well as potential development measures that can be adopted to improve the performance of suppliers are identified. Secondly, a systematic literature review with a focus on decision support models for supplier development is conducted. Based on the analysis of the literature, we define a research agenda that synthesizes key trends and promising research opportunities and thus highlight areas where more decision support models are needed to foster supplier development initiatives in practice

Experiential marketing system.

Attention lies in the crux of our media based society. Look around you; everyone is trying to get your attention. But is it really working. Advertising fuels this attention crazy age of ours. But are they succeeding in what they set out to do. Research says that about 9 billion images are produced every year. That’s more than an image per person for a world with a population of around 6.7 billion. Do we really look at the hundreds of ads which are thrown at us through various platforms on an average day? Information technology is expanding massively and the pursuit for unique trademarks and logos has become desperate. A conventional corporate design is often no longer enough to achieve identification. The whole point of advertising is about getting your attention but the world out there is saturated with their overwhelming presence everywhere. What people are looking for is an experience. A coffee at Starbucks costs almost 10 times more than the one at your nearby food court. We value a good experience and we strive for it. The point of this project is to get the idea of an experience to advertising. I have tried to work on a developing a conceptual system which sells the product to an audience not just with an image or a clip but with an experience.Bachelor of Fine Art

Exploitation of ReValue results - ReValue Project Deliverable 4.3

This report is a part of Deliverable 4.3 of Revalue project highlighting the exploitation potential of the solutions developed in the project to reduce losses in the surimi supply chain in India. ReValue solutions have the potential to achieve a huge market impact, drastically increasing the Surimi industry profitability. The average value of fish used for surimi will increase significantly if the Rest Raw Materials (RRM) can be utilized into food and feed ingredients. In addition, ReValue solutions contribute to quality enhancement through improvement in processes and in the cold chain, as well as the introduction of functional ingredients derived from RRM that can be used as nutritional supplements. Further exploitation should focus on the marketing of surimi derived products, increasing consumer awareness for wider acceptance of surimi and derived products from India in the European market.publishedVersio