Commodity Chain Analysis

INTRODUCTION Most people eat rice at some point in their lives, but they are consumed everyday for Asian culture. No one really stops thinking about how these rice grains ultimately are on their plates, in your own cozy house or in the convenience of the restaurant. For many Americans this choice is a necessary food source for some countries. Rice is a very important cereal that is consumed in the majority of the world's population. As the number of inhabitants in the world continues to increase, rice farmers feel that it is difficult to meet high demand.

The university decided to collect more specific facts on this topic. I took a course called Food Politics Economics. The final project here was to complete the commodity chain analysis of the selected products. I analyzed the Polish spring water commodity chain and chose to understand the burden the mineral water industry has on the environment. According to Recycle Across America, 'Americans discard 5 million plastic bottles in an hour' (Recycle Across America 2016). Regardless of the recycling mark of each bottle, National Geographic magazine says, "More than 80% of recyclable PET bottles are landfill waste every year" (National Geographic 2010). These statistics shocked me and scared my planet.

Global Value Chain (GVC) mapping represents labor, policy, function, input, technology, standards, regulations, and markets related to a specific product, product, or service. Using value chain analysis, Jeffrey Moe (DGHI) and Danny Hamrick (Duke CGGC) wrote "Chloridine for Umbilist Care: Value Chain Analysis in Bangladesh." The report explains all domestic CHX activities, including development, production, distribution and adoption and use of mothers and their carers.

In 1985, Michael Porter of Harvard Business School introduced the concept of value chain analysis. I think the value chain analysis is more popular than today's Porter as an indicator of good concepts and technology. Part of the popularity of this type of analysis is that it can provide insight into the business model that may be a definitive term for customer experience that may be the entrepreneurial spirit of the 21st century. We simplify the concept of Porter focusing on supply, distribution and customer relationships. Supply relationships capture all processes that create products or services. Distribution relationships represent all processes that sell products and hand them over to customers. Finally, customer relationships are often referred to as customer experiences. Pacific Rim Shipping may be one example. One example is reducing friction with customers about trust issues.