Quality and Operations Management in Food Supply Chains

Methodology

Relevant Literature and Classification

In this stage, all articles were prudently reviewed. The searching guidelines and results are presented in Table 1. An article was removed from this study if it was not related to food quality, operations management, or not using quantitative methods. The remaining publications were then classified according to a conceptual framework proposed in Section 3.1.

Table 1 Searching guidelines and results.


Filter type	Descriptions and guidelines	Results

Inclusion criteria	Articles that were identified in the database search or appeared in the reference lists of one of the selected articles
	(i) Topic: articles that develop or apply quantitative models on food quality and operations management in food supply chain
	(ii) Language: limited to English
	(iii) Time span: 2005–2017
	(iv) Paper type: academic (peer-reviewed) journal articles

Keywords	(i) Group A keywords: "food quality", "perishable food", and "perishable products"
	(ii) Group B keywords: "operations management", "inventory management", "marketing", "customer behaviors", "supply chain coordination", "production planning", "quality control", and "distribution"

Keywords search	(i) Selected online databases (e.g., Elsevier, Wiley Online, Informs, Springer, and Hindawi)	426
	(ii) All selected articles contain at least one keyword combination from Groups A and B in the title, abstract, or list of keywords

Exclusion criteria	(i) Not related to food quality	105 left
	(ii) Not related to the operations management problems (iii) Not using the quantitative methodologies