Trazabilidad como herramienta generadora de valor agregado en la comercialización del cacao

Abstract

The following work is based on the importance of generating an optimization of the processes in the logistics chain in the export of cocoa, a product that is booming in Colombia, standing out worldwide for being the tenth producing country and highlighting the great quality and variety of the types, where it seeks to generate benefits both to the producer by stimulating the harvest of the product and the good handling of the postharvest as well as to the client offering detailed information on the step by step of the aforementioned postharvest following the purchase, storage, packaging transport to port, customs procedures and sent the container. Considering that some of the intervening agents found shortcomings and obstacles that did not allow the optimization of operations and generated dissatisfaction with suppliers and customers, insisting on the search for a tool that carried out detection and monitoring, generating traceability in each of the processes, where the purpose of this is to maximize the logistics chain by identifying errors and delays in reducing times in any of these steps, taking into account the ability to correct them, as well as in the marketing of the product generating Added Value with the customer providing all the precise conditions of the procedure and in detail either by knowledge or by the social responsibility that it handles with its clients, generating the cultivation of cocoa a benefit as an increase in income and stimulus in the investment of their needs in order to improve their production.