Impacto de la configuración de la cadena de suministro piscícola en la resiliencia y pérdidas alimentarias

Abstract

Fish farming has experimented with global growth, generating 92 million tons of products, contributing to food security, promoting the economic development of different countries, and giving alternatives to protein consumption (FAO, 2022). However, this development faces relevant challenges to fulfill the sustainable development objectives, especially under the high risk that could affect the stakeholders in a supply chain. In this manner, supply chain resilience has gained more attention, which justifies its application in this work to the Colombia Central Region fish farming supply chain. This approach is crucial due to the need to tackle problems as the high food losses in the fish farming sector, critical by the perishable nature of the products, and the inefficiencies in the supply chain increased by the situations generated by different disruptions. A simulation model was developed to evaluate the fish farming supply chain configuration on resilience facing disruptive events. This model serves as support for the decision-making and the design of public policies, taking into account performance measures of interest. Particularly, the model considers the inventory levels, deficits, and losses of the different actors, whose resilience is measured at recovery time, variability, and expected values. Results suggest that flexible and agile configurations have a better response in the first mile, though with the biggest food losses, meanwhile, the lean structures handle best in consumption disruptions, reducing losses and covering the demand.