MODEL FOR THE PREDICTION OF HORTICULTURAL PRODUCT QUALITY EVOLUTION ALONG DIFFERENT SUPPLY CHAIN SCENARIO PATHS

As customer expectations and regulations on food quality become more severe, the way of performing traceability changes too.
First there were ‘paper’ traceability tools, now there are electronic traceability tools.
An emerging novelty is the addition of quality evolution prediction of products in these systems.
When this prediction component gets combined with path modelling techniques, the quality can be predicted at any point along this path.
Up to now there are almost no international publications that describe such specific quality tracing system.
The aspects of process conditions, product quality and biological variation are just the things that are central at the heart of this model in the quality prediction part.
These aspects distinguish this application from similar research.

The aim of this paper is to describe the actual design of a model for the prediction of horticultural product quality evolution along different supply chain scenario paths.
This model is part of an intelligent tracing and quality evolution monitoring system for horticultural produce being currently under development.

III International Symposium on Applications of Modelling as an Innovative Technology in the Agri-Food Chain; MODEL-IT

P. Snoekx, J. De Baerdemaeker, M. Hertog, B. Nicolaï

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2005.674.44