The document describes the complex global supply chain required to deliver a banana from farm to consumer. It notes that bananas are grown on farms in countries like Brazil and India, then packaged, labeled, and shipped via refrigerated containers to ripening centers. There, controlled temperatures and gases trigger ripening over 5-7 days. The bananas are then transported to stores via trucks, unpacked, and made available for consumers to purchase. The end-to-end process, while convenient for consumers, requires extensive coordination between farmers, shippers, ripeners, and retailers around the world.
The document describes the complex global supply chain required to deliver a banana from farm to consumer. It notes that bananas are grown on farms in countries like Brazil and India, then packaged, labeled, and shipped via refrigerated containers to ripening centers. There, controlled temperatures and gases trigger ripening over 5-7 days. The bananas are then transported to stores via trucks, unpacked, and made available for consumers to purchase. The end-to-end process, while convenient for consumers, requires extensive coordination between farmers, shippers, ripeners, and retailers around the world.
The document describes the complex global supply chain required to deliver a banana from farm to consumer. It notes that bananas are grown on farms in countries like Brazil and India, then packaged, labeled, and shipped via refrigerated containers to ripening centers. There, controlled temperatures and gases trigger ripening over 5-7 days. The bananas are then transported to stores via trucks, unpacked, and made available for consumers to purchase. The end-to-end process, while convenient for consumers, requires extensive coordination between farmers, shippers, ripeners, and retailers around the world.
The document describes the complex global supply chain required to deliver a banana from farm to consumer. It notes that bananas are grown on farms in countries like Brazil and India, then packaged, labeled, and shipped via refrigerated containers to ripening centers. There, controlled temperatures and gases trigger ripening over 5-7 days. The bananas are then transported to stores via trucks, unpacked, and made available for consumers to purchase. The end-to-end process, while convenient for consumers, requires extensive coordination between farmers, shippers, ripeners, and retailers around the world.
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The Journey of one Banana: A Supply Chain in Motion.
I’m making a banana smoothie. I ordered groceries the other day and had them delivered through Amazon Fresh. I was a complete idiot and forgot to double-check the order. So, instead of 4 bananas, I got 4 bundles of bananas.”
My instant thought was:
These are awesome times to be a consumer.
• Sitting comfortably at home
• Able to order groceries • Directly delivered in the front door • 100% transaction completed • No Step outside What are the advancements and influences ? •Comfort
•Convenience “Think about the journey the banana
The complexity of:
* planning * transportation * collaboration * time and labor
that went into the supply chain of that banana
• Farming * Multiple Moving Parts • Dependent on ……..? • Collaboration of Multiple Parties • Resource consuming elements?
• But, without the initial • Refrigeration
farming/production of the banana, • Ripening Centers the rest of the supply chain would be redundant. • Proper Transportation
• Distribution Centers • Brazil • India for domestic consumption • Variations in Bananas: • Difficulties: • GHG emission created during farming, • sustainability and ecological living packaging and distribution • for abusing the human and worker rights at production plantations. • • Cultivation, harvesting and selection of the fruit is very labour intensive, and as previously indicated require a highly organized and integrated chain” • Packaging, Traceability and Sourcing
• Most farms work directly, under contract, with a specific label that will later distribute the bananas in bulk to retailers around the • the fruit is washed, labeled and packaged at globe. adjacent plants • quality-control • most production sites utilize box code labeling for tracking purposes. • “In this process, a number called a Box Code is stamped on each box. This number enables the identification of the farm where the bananas were harvested, the facility where they were boxed, and the time and date when they were boxed, for example. This ensures the traceability of the bananas, which makes it possible to trace them back to the area of production immediately in the event of a quality problem or the like at the sales destination” • Transportation, Logistics and • major distributors load up massive cargo Ripening freights on company ships, or those of 3rd party logistic providers.
• Transportation — shipping, trucking and
refrigeration — contributes to 62%-67% of the total carbon footprint created during the life cycle of the banana value .
• During maritime transport, bananas are
required to be stored in large refrigeration containers. • * Packaged bananas are transported from sea to land, and loaded into ‘forced-ripening’ centers.
• * Temperature-controlled rooms for 5–7 days at a time.
• * “Temperature must be kept constant.
• * A temperature lower than 13°C or higher than 18°C can
• RIPENING PROCESS damage the appearance of the fruit”
• * Air must continue to be circulated in the storage rooms.
• * Simultaneously, controlled amounts of ethylene gas and
hydrocarbons are fed into the rooms, which triggers a ripening of the banana • Retail and Consumption • the final step before retail is inspection • At stores, unpacking, shelving and direct consumer-sales take place. • CALCULATION So next time you slurp down a smoothie, * eat a piece of banana bread or * flip over those banana flapjacks,
just remember: that banana’s existence took one hell of a supply chain in motion.
