Use of twitter data for waste minimisation in beef supply chain

Mishra, Nishikant and Singh, Akshit (2018) Use of twitter data for waste minimisation in beef supply chain. Annals of Operations Research, 270 (1-2). 337–359. ISSN 0254-5330

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Abstract

Approximately one third of the food produced is discarded or lost, which accounts for 1.3 billion tons per annum. The waste is being generated throughout the supply chain viz. farmers, wholesalers/processors, logistics, retailers and consumers. The majority of waste occurs at the interface of retailers and consumers. Many global retailers are making efforts to extract intelligence from customer’s complaints left at retail store to backtrack their supply chain to mitigate the waste. However, majority of the customers don’t leave the complaints in the store because of various reasons like inconvenience, lack of time, distance, ignorance etc. In current digital world, consumers are active on social media and express their sentiments, thoughts, and opinions about a particular product freely. For example, on an average, 45,000 tweets are tweeted daily related to beef products to express their likes and dislikes. These tweets are large in volume, scattered and unstructured in nature. In this study, twitter data is utilised to develop waste minimization strategies by backtracking the supply chain. The execution process of proposed framework is demonstrated for beef supply chain. The proposed model is generic enough and can be applied to other domains as well.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© The Author(s) 2016 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	big data,beef supply chain,waste minimisation,twitter analytics
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
Related URLs:	http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10479-...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2016 14:00
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 01:40
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60871
DOI:	10.1007/s10479-016-2303-4

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