Quality Visibility Improvement with Effort Alignment and Cost-Sharing Policies in a Food Supply Chain

Table 1

Literature related to the effects of supply chain quality visibility.

Literature	Visibility focused	Objectives	Methods	SC types
Delen et al. [21]	RFID data	Logistical performance	Case study	Retail
Williams et al. [22]	Demand, supply, and market visibility	Supply chain responsiveness	Empirical study	Various including food
Tse and Tan [23]	Quality risk visibility	Multi-outsourcing decision	Marginal incremental analysis (MIA)	Common
Guo [24]	Quality information disclosure	Company pricing and profit	Mathematical modelling	Common
Zhao et al. [25]	Quality information disclosure	Company pricing and profit	Mathematical modelling	Common
Wu et al. [26]	Quality information sharing or not	Company profit and market share	Mathematical modelling	Common
Piramuthu et al. [27]	Accuracy of contamination source identification	Liability cost, recall timing	Mathematical modelling	Food
Granados and Gupta [7]	Quality, price, and features transparency, etc.	Buyer’s purchase decision, business, information, and IT strategies	Theoretical development	Common
Ghosh and Galbreth [28]	Quality information disclosure	Consumer search and purchase, company pricing, and profit	Mathematical modelling	Common
Riganelli and Marchini [29]	Labelling strategies	Consumer demand, company performance	Empirical study	Food
Buell and Kalkanci [30]	Internal and external operational transparency	Consumer purchase	Field experiment	Apparel and food
El Benni et al. [8]	Authenticity cues	Consumer choice	Survey	Food
This paper	Supply chain quality visibility	Company pricing, visibility decision, and SC performance	Mathematical modelling	Food