The impact of digitalization on the sustainability of the food supply chain

Abstract

In the food supply chain, digitalization at all levels of production and product promotion to the consumer is non-systemic and fragmented. Most of the computer programs, applications, and electronic tools used to account for and control activity parameters are poorly integrated with each other. Digital transformation is most successfully carried out in long supply chains, mainly in retail and product processing, but less actively in the production sector based on large-scale agribusiness operating on an industrial basis. End-to-end integrated digitalization of the value creation process from the field to the end user is at the initial stage of its development. The creation of institutional conditions for the systematic implementation of digital solutions in product supply chains based on the creation of inter-organizational information systems operating on a single digital platform contributes to a significant increase in trust between participants, transparency of economic relations, equivalence of exchange, efficiency and sustainability of the supply chain as an economic system. The study was conducted in order to study the state of the digitalization process of supply chains in the agro-industrial complex, identify problems of interorganizational interaction and cooperation in the supply chain, assess development prospects, and develop measures to stimulate the development of digital technologies. Digitalization contributes to strengthening trust in the supply chain, increasing competitiveness, commercial viability and economic efficiency of the supply chain, and increasing revenue and benefits for participants. As the level of digitalization increases, business connections in the supply chain will become regular, which contributes to increasing the sustainability of food supply chains.