The role of agricultural cooperatives in supply chain
Absztrakt
Agricultural cooperatives follow the cooperative model, owned and controlled by members. Marketing Cooperatives are one type of agriculture cooperative that is oriented toward the market and marketing of the products by their members. These cooperatives are becoming more and more popular with the globalization and unbalanced power market of farmers in the supply chains. Supply Chain Management is a very crucial concept for marketing cooperatives to send their products to the final consumers. Supply Chain Management includes many aspects of the product flow from production, processing, distributing, retailing, and customers. And managing the Supply Chain process effectively can be very valuable for minimizing costs and effectively optimizing profits. This requires collaboration and coordination among all the actors in the supply chain. Some vital activities for marketing cooperatives are demand forecasting, inventory management, supplier management, logistics, transportation management, and performance measurements. The purpose of this study is to give light on important topics in English Language research conducted on Marketing Cooperatives that are focused on activities as a player (not practices) in the sectors of Agriculture. Production, Fishery, Animal Production, Food Processing, Food Manufacturing, etc. And followed by a content analysis to provide a bigger picture of marketing, producer, activities, and supply chains. And in the end the meta-analysis by combining the results of various studies which have been conducted independently of each other, giving a new picture related to gaining an understanding of the environment in which research in a certain field of study. The results show that the research is mostly oriented to market and value-addition in well-developed countries. China has the largest contribution to the topic but the USA is the most cited scientific work. The scientific map correlates with the agricultural cooperative distribution worldwide map. As well as activities of marketing cooperatives overlap with some of the SCM activities. The performance of marketing cooperatives is influenced by their activities and SCM activities.