Evaluating Traceability Technology Adoption in Food Supply Chain: A Game Theoretic Approach

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This manuscript written by Nainsi Gupta bet al. is a valuable research on. " Evaluating Traceability Technology Adoption in Food Supply Chain: A Game Theoretic Approach”. Although the subject is quite important, but, the study is unacceptable in its current form, minor revisions are required beforehand for manuscript. Below I list some of the main issues that need to be improved

1. Reference should be made in the following sentence in the introduction section

“Food waste depends upon consumer behavior and their society

concerns regarding food waste (###), while food loss can be monitored as well as controlled with the help of modifications in various aspects like food policies, infrastructure, and technological investments”

“Moreover, there are also several other factors like global population, food borne illness, and fraudulence, that also demands the need of traceability in a food supply chain (###).”

2.Figure 1 shows Core players of food supply chain. But explain why logistics is not included in this chain. Because logistics should have a very important place. In addition, in mathematical analysis, the logistics factor is also excluded from acting. This should be explained

3. As it is known, traceability of cold chain foods has an extra importance in the food chain. In this study, it would be more meaningful to make a separate proposition for cold chain foods as a variable.

4. The conclusion part is not well presented. The propositions of the study should be explained more strikingly. The analysis results of the developed mathematical model should be interpreted in detail. conlusion needs to be rewritten

4.plagiarism ratio is really successful

5.references is sufficient

6.Minor grammatical errors in English need to be corrected.

Author Response

The authors would like to thank the reviewer for his/her sincere review and comments and for spending time going through our research work.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

 

-          Please insert the suitable reference (s) for the following:

·         Page 1:  Food security is a major concern worldwide due to increase in population, climate change, and increasing demand of food (##).

·         Page 2: Food waste depends upon consumer behavior and their societal concerns regarding food waste (###)

·         Page 2: The choice to develop the traceable system at every level depends upon the risk, capital investment, governmental policies, technological information, and social & environmental concern (###).

·         Page 4: 3) lack of linkage between farmers and processing units. Moreover, there are also several other factors like global population, food borne illness, and fraudulence, that also demands the need of traceability in a food supply chain (###).

- Using shorter sentences makes your text easier to read. Please use shorter sentences.

Find and replace with suitable title: "2. Literature Review"

-           Find: (FAO (2019); Seminar (2016); Mogale et al., (2019); Maiyar & Thakkar (2019)). Correct the format of references.

-          Page 2-Find and correct: transportation. (Dandage et al., 2016; Mogale et al, 2020).  

-          Check all the figures 's numbers

-          Page 6- Find: Internet of things (technologies that provide communication between devices like cloud computing, RFID tags. Clarify what are the types of RFID in IoT Internet of things. high frequency

-           Figure 2 Multi-stage game model representing strategies of stakeholders of food chain

-          Put the represented multi-stage game model with a suitable figure in a suitable place of your text. Check Figure 4.

-          Nash Equilibrium (Pure and Mixed): More details are required to specify why you have utilized Gambit Software to calculate Nash equilibrium

-          - Put appropriate references to the following section “6. Discussion and Research Implication”.

-          Use recent references.

-        Good referencing practices require to cite recent and critical research works in your research article.  Please show the  impact of the following references:

·         Zhou, X., Pullman, M. and Xu, Z., 2022. The impact of food supply chain traceability on sustainability performance. Operations Management Research, 15(1), pp.93-115.

·         Reddy, P., Kurnia, S. and Tortorella, G.L., 2022, September. Digital Food Supply Chain Traceability Framework. Proceedings 2022, 82(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2022082009

·         Curto JP, Gaspar PD. Traceability in food supply chains: Review and SME focused analysis-Part 1. AIMS Agriculture and Food. 2021 Apr 1;6(2):679-707.

 

-          Page 2:  Find: Traceability is the ability of food chain that can track and trace the history and flow of food products throughout the supply chain by using different technical innovations like RFID, blockchain, food sensing technologies, and barcoding.

Put suitable references. The suggested references for “blockchain” are numbers 17, 20, and 28.

17. Kamble, S. S.; Gunasekaran, A.; Sharma, R. Modeling the blockchain enabled traceability in agriculture supply chain. International Journal of Information Management 2019.

20. Galvez, J. F.; Mejuto, J. C.; Simal-Gandara, J. Future challenges on the use of blockchain for food traceability analysis. Trends in Analytical Chemistry 2018

28. Iftekhar, A.; Cui, X. Blockchain-based Traceability System that ensures food safety measures to protect consumer safety and COVID-19 free supply chain. Foods 2021, 10, 1289.

- More details should be illustrated for other technical innovations such as “Food sensing technology and RFID tags”. Food sensing technology was only illustrated in the following “The transformative technologies that affect traceability include food sensing technologies for tracking of food safety …….

- RFID system was illustrated in the following: "The barcoding and QR scan code technologies are less expensive as compared to RFID systems".

-Page 6 Find: "Similarly, Iftekhar et al. (2020) considered blockchain as …". Please consider the following reference Omar et al., 2022 presented an overview of the various blockchain-based traceability solutions reported in the literature in various sectors including food supply chain.

Omar IA, Debe M, Jayaraman R, Salah K, Omar M, Arshad J. Blockchain-based Supply Chain Traceability for COVID-19 personal protective equipment. Computers and Industrial Engineering. 2022 May 1;167:107995.

Check the format of all references for example the numbers 8, 21, 23, 26, 38, 35, 40, 41

Author Response

The authors would like to thank the reviewer for his/her sincere review and comments and for spending time going through our research work.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear authors,

it was my great pleasure to read and review your work. It is obvious that a lot of work and effort has been invested in this study. The manuscript is well written, with very good English. Every part of the manuscript is well-explained and organized with clear objectives.

There seem to be some technical issues with the present PDF file (### in brackets, part of text missing in Figures, mistakenly numbered Figures ), so please make sure to correct that. Please find other minor corrections inside the PDF file.  

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

You may use following statement for Reviewer 3:

We thank the reviewer for going through our paper minutely and identifying the mistakes. We have now incorporated all the changes suggested in the pdf by the reviewer. We are also attaching the same pdf as a reply to the changes indicated. 

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf