Innovation is defined as the introduction of new goods, services, or ways of doing business

(Wojan and Parker, 2017). Business innovation plays a vital role in short-term recovery and
long-term resilience following significant market uncertainty, economic recession, and major
crises (Wojan and Paker, 2017; Ulvenblad et al., 2018; Galankis et al., 2021; Ozanne et al., 2022;
Wang et al., 2022).

Innovation is an imperative tool for organizations to gain their competitive advantage and
improve organizational performance (Porter, 1990). SC innovation refers to a complex process
which deals with uncertainty in the environment, so as to provide solutions for customer needs
and find new ways to better organizational processes using new technologies (Porter, 1990;
Herzlinger, 2006). SC innovation refers to tools that can improve organizational processes
needed for effective SCM through seamless interactions with suppliers, manufacturers,
distributors and customers (Lin, 2008). Thus, SC innovation allows reduction in cost and lead
time, creation of new operational strategies, provision of consistent quality, and development of
flexibility for dealing with rapid changes in the business environment (Stundza, 2009).

The food logistics supply chain, as an important link connecting producers and consumers, plays
a crucial role in the modern economic system. With the continuous deepening of global trade, the
complexity and dynamics of food logistics supply chains have also increased. It not only
involves the physical flow of food from production to consumption, but also includes the
integration of information flow, capital flow, and service flow. Effective management of the
supply chain is crucial in ensuring food quality, reducing costs, improving service levels, and
meeting consumer demands during this process.

Every link from production to consumption may have efficiency bottlenecks, which affect the
performance of the entire supply chain. For example, issues such as food loss during
transportation and storage, inaccurate demand forecasting, and information asymmetry in the
supply chain can all lead to increased costs and decreased service quality. In addition, with the
increasing demands of consumers for food safety and quality, supply chain management also
needs to constantly innovate and improve to adapt to market changes.
Based on a comprehensive review of existing literature and in-depth case analysis, this paper
provides theoretical and practical references for improving food logistics supply chain
management. The aim of this study is to promote the continuous progress of the food logistics
industry, in order to meet the growing market demand and seek a win-win situation for all parties
in the supply chain.

In the era of disruption technology and sustainability challenges, innovations play a significant
role in any business competitive strategy. Innovation is a diffusion and process new concept,
novel ideas, experimentation, improvement practical application and creative thoughts to find a
better solution, technology, method, or re-engineering a thing or to make something in a real-
world system in order to make human-life better and easier

SCM concepts are already consolidated as an essential part of modern management thinking. Its
tools and techniques have helped companies in traditional areas such as manufacturing and
retailing to achieve unprecedented levels of operational performance and efficiency in
transaction coordination with suppliers and customers. Yet, the discipline is still rather incipient
in the agro-industry domain. While managerial literature abounds with textbooks and
publications about SCM in general, publications specific to agro-processing enterprises are few
and far between. The present research aims to fill this gap.

Developing countries are becoming more and more integrated in the global food market due to
the global sourcing of western retailers and food industries and to the increase of consumer
demand in western countries for year round supply of exotic products. A consumer that visits a
supermarket in Rome, Italy or Amsterdam in the Netherlands, can find papayas from Brazil,
special coffees from Tanzania, beef from Argentina, mangoes from India or rice from Thailand,
among many other imported foods from a diverse number of developing countries. This means,
however, that developing countries must adapt to the stringent quality and safety standards and
regulations in these markets. They must also gain better control over production, trade and
distribution of their agricultural products in order to guarantee traceability and operate in a cost-
effective way, so as to compete in the global market. One important barrier for developing
country producers in this respect is the lack of an enabling environment (institutions, support
services and infrastructure facilities). For example many countries lack adequately skilled people
and laboratory facilities, which make good quality management difficult.

All these developments put dynamic requirements on the performance of the agrifood system,
thus triggering a reorientation of companies with regard to their roles, activities and strategies,
both in developed and developing countries. There is a need for SCM to cope with these changes
and this cannot be done by one party itself. Cooperation is needed to fulfil market demands for
responsive, low cost and high quality deliveries.
Participants in both types of chains, e.g. farmers, traders, processors, retailers, etc, understand
that original good quality products can be subject to quality decay because of
an inadequate action of another participant. For example, when a farm leaves a can of milk
for pick-up on a roadside, under the sun, without any cover, there will be a loss of quality
that may even render the raw material unfit for processing. If processors, on the other hand,
use packaging items and/or technologies that do not maintain freshness and nutritional
characteristics of their products as much as possible, retailers will be likely to face customer
complaints. A list of specific process and product characteristics of FSCNs is summarized
in Table 2 and categorized by their potential stage in the supply chain. It is clear that each
characteristic has an impact on the way the logistical processes are organized.
Due to specific characteristics of food products, the partnership principles in SCM
have already received a lot of attention over the past years in FSCNs. It is vital for industrial
producers to contract suppliers to guarantee the supply of raw materials with the right volume,
right quantity, right quality, at the right place and at the right time. Furthermore, they coordinate
the timing of the supply of goods with suppliers to match capacity availability.

Agricultural downstream supply chain involves processing commodities from agricultural

postharvest into a finished product. It means products in downstream supply chain have more
value-added than post-harvest product because of the processing itself. According to, in order to
accelerate agricultural modernization and facing a technology disruption era, innovation process
through the business process should strongly considered. Hence, researches in innovation system
in agricultural downstream supply chain are important and pay attention for many researches
over the past decade since disruption technology concept appear in 2010 as result behind
technology disruption.
Recent researches in innovation system through agricultural supply chain were focused on
sustainability, technology development related to the development of technology, economy,
social, energy, policy, and method innovation. Researches in the development of innovation
system in agricultural downstream supply chain (IS-ADSC) is very high for the past decade. This
has led to in an appearing line of research that pays attention on several aspect (like technology
or social innovation) of the development of innovation system and its impact on rapid
development of agricultural downstream facing technological disruption.

The supply chains of different agricultural commodities in India, however, are fraught with
challenges stemming from the inherent problems of the agriculture sector. The agri supply chain
system of the country is determined by different sartorial issues like dominance of small/
marginal farmers, fragmented supply chains, absence of scale economies, low level of
processing/value addition, inadequacy of marketing infrastructure etc.