The food supply chain, following its globalization, has become very complex. Such complexities, introduce factors that influence adversely the quality of intermediate and final products. Strict constraints regarding parameters such as maintenance temperatures and transportation times must be respected in order to ensure top quality and reduce to a minimum the detrimental effects to public health. This is a multi-factorial endeavor and all of the involved stakeholders must accept and manage the logistics burden to achieve the best possible results. However, such burden comes together with additional complexities and costs regarding data storage, business process management and company specific standard operating procedures and as such, automated methods must be devised to reduce the impact of such intrusive operations. For the above reasons, in this paper we present BioTrak: a platform capable of registering and visualizing the whole chain of transformation and transportation processes including the monitoring of cold chain logistics of food ingredients starting from the raw material producers until the final product arrives to the end-consumer. The platform includes Business Process Modelling methods to aid food supply chain stakeholders to optimize their processes and also integrates a blockchain for guaranteeing the integrity, transparency and accountability of the data.

翻译：随着全球化进程，食品供应链已变得极为复杂。这种复杂性引入了对中间及最终产品质量产生不利影响的因素。为确保最优品质并最大限度降低对公众健康的危害，必须严格遵守诸如维持温度、运输时间等参数的严格限制。这是一项多因素协同的工作，所有相关利益方必须接受并承担物流负担，以达成最佳结果。然而，此类负担伴随着数据存储、业务流程管理及企业特定标准操作规程方面的额外复杂性与成本，因此必须设计自动化方法以降低此类侵入性操作的影响。基于上述原因，本文提出BioTrak平台：该平台能够记录并可视化从原材料生产商到最终产品抵达消费者手中的全链条转化与运输过程，包括食品原料冷链物流的监控。该平台融合了业务流程建模方法，以助力食品供应链利益方优化流程，并集成了区块链技术，用于保障数据的完整性、透明性与可追溯性。