Abstract

In current context of globalized markets, competitiveness of agricultural producers faces challenges derived from national and international standards that impose high-quality requirements to access important markets and implement measures to warrantee safety in food, especially in fresh produce. Under this context, traceability of supply chain plays an essential role of giving information that aloud to establish improving points in each link of the supply chain. Current traceability approaches are based on conventional commercial solutions used on industrial products, leaving out fresh produce features that make necessary having into account a higher level of information all over the entire supply chain. Throughout this research work, it is presented a proposal to evaluate fresh produce traceability systems taking into account technological systems that aloud to monitor the product transport conditions and the design of an architecture to facilitate its visualization, tracking and control in any part of the chain. This research work pursue the construction of easy-to-employ quality indicators in order to evaluate the traceability and the decision making throughout technological monitoring, design methodologies and the construction of approval and verification instruments using a case study of the supply chain of Solanum Quitoense (Lulo in colombian spanish).