El Interés por Parte de los Actores de la Industria Alimentaria en la Formulación de Nuevas Metodologías de Innovación, en el Contexto de la Economía Circular

Abstract

The food industry is one of the most recurrent in logistics issues; the process that is carried out during the supply chain, shows how the transformation of raw materials plays a major role in the development of the other links, until reaching the final consumer, and its cycle is completed, to be implemented the circular economy model and to be able to reuse the organic and industrial waste that was generated.

With the passing of time, companies and multinationals engaged in the production of food goods/products for human consumption, and whose commercialization is of mass character, have had to adapt not only to market demands, but also to the requirements that are demanded by consumers and that derive in new regulations imposed by public health entities operating at international level; in order to improve quality indexes, to have recognition for efficiency and to achieve a desired effectiveness, this in front of competitors.

Resilience in the international market must be added to the appropriation of instruments and methodologies that are implemented to reduce costs, increase response times and reduce the risk of errors and polluting emissions that may occur in any of the stages of the process, and that result in large financial losses, which in turn affect the reputation of the parties involved.

Therefore, it can be said that the search for new methods and tools that can be applied to strengthen aspects such as the reduction of risks (not only sanitary, but also operational) and the positive impact on the environment (reducing the multiplicity of waste, air pollution and water sources); suggest a very important challenge for environmental, governmental, political and private organizations, who should delve into this topic, in favor of a reduction with a focus on mitigation of the altering factors.

And as such, this research proposes a structured deepening on the subject, taking into account the figures and data from different companies focused on food goods, the opinion of experts, the use of bibliometric data obtained from information bases and measurement variables established by certain entities; in such a way that alternatives and possible solutions will be proposed to this inconvenience that affects the entire population, taking into account that food is a physiological need, and if the required standards are not met, this industry and some of its sectors, would enter into decline.