“Sustainable supply chain management - challenges and emerging solutions for Indian Food Processing Companies”

This paper reviews the opportunities available for processed food products to boost consumers to eat healthier and more nutritious diets and motivate more to invest in more sustainable manufacturing and distribution systems. This process will develop processing firms procurement systems based on more sustainable forms of agriculture. The important factors in developing more sustainable supply chains are known as the type of supply chain implicated and the individual business approach to extending responsibility for product quality into social and environmental performance within their own supply chains. Interpersonal trust and working to standards of supply chain participants are both important to build more sustainable local and many conserved food supply chains. This also leads inadequate to transform conventional agriculture and raw material supplies to the manufactured and commodity food markets. Cooperation among food manufacturers, retailers, NGOs, governmental and farmers’ organizations is vital in order to raise standards for some supply chains and to enable farmers to adopt more sustainable agricultural practices. Sustainable Supply Chain Management of processed food companies also Contains quantitative models and tools that address the interconnected areas of the food supply chain, Synthesizes academic literature related to sustainable food supply chains and also Deals with interdisciplinary fields of research (Industrial Systems Engineering, Food Science, Packaging Science, Decision Science, Logistics-and Facility Management, Supply Chain Management, Agriculture and Land-use Planning) that dominate food supply chain systems and operations. In this paper it is cleared that there is no specific strategy or instruction for sustainable supply chain but, this concept is dependent on strategic approach of the managers, employees and environmental conditions. In particular, sustainable development in food service industry is very important because of its impact on modern dietary life and the environment through complex supply chains. The study focus on different challenges and emerging solutions to develop a sustainable processed food supply chain. Having a sustainable food supply chain can help the food industry not only contributing more to the environment protection and improving the markets, but also increasing the safety of the food they can produce and provide. This is becoming more and more important in domestic food market. There are many processes that play important roles in building a sustainable processed food supply chain, the processed food logistics is one of the most important aspects to be improved.