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Generating competitive advantage by uncovering lost efficiencies: a Low-Certainty-Need perspective into the Agri-food Supply Chain

dos Santos Silva, Joana
(2025)

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Supervisors
Blome, Constantin ; Costa, Ana Sofia
Faculty
Louvain School of Management
Degree label
Master [120] : ingénieur de gestion, à finalité spécialisée
Abstract
This thesis explores the integration of resilience and efficiency into the Agri-food Supply Chain (AFSC) and the effects on supply chain (SC) structure, design, and supplier management. Through a comprehensive analysis of the literature on Supply Chain Resilience, resilience in the AFSC, and Alternative Food Networks based in the locality and semi-structured interviews with key players in the AFSC, new theoretical and practical conclusions were found on the management of the AFSC. The findings demonstrate that Food Hubs are an apt organizational and structural innovation that enhance resilience in the lens of SC ambidexterity and the Low-Certainty-Need SC framework. Additionally, the findings provide practical strategies for applying inventory and capacity redundancies in the AFSC with cost-effective considerations and an instance where the collaborative method of collective learning with value co-creation is used and implemented in practice along with practical strategies derived from this case for widespread implementation.