Dear Kumar,

There are many livestock and crops regulations that change from one place to another. We're talking about the use or not of substances such as steroids for cattle or some pesticide use on crops. There are health concerns behind these regulations, but also political interests.

Dear Mukesh Kumar,

In addition to the obstacles and possible risks described by the previous colleague, the preponderance of political interests, there is also the under-capacity of production, sourcing of raw materials, material damage, processing and packaging, storage, planning error, wholesale distribution, retail redistribution to consumer, delivery delays ...

For more details and information about this subject, i suggest you to see links and attached file on topic.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267750999_Achieving_supply_chain_resilience_the_role_of_procurement

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318989431_Building_resilience_in_SMEs_of_perishable_product_supply_chains_enablers_barriers_and_risks

https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/26644-four-barriers-to-outsourcing-a-challenge-for-logistics-service-providers

https://www.sourcetoday.com/supply-chain/article/21867328/using-multisourcing-to-diversify-the-supply-chain

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/supply-chain-risk-management-is-back

Article Urban Food Supply Chain Resilience for Crises Threatening Fo...

Best regards

Dear Kumar,

Take into account, that Multi-sourcing in Food industry is a kind of opportunity (not only a source of pure risk). It represents a kind of solution providing Supplier Chain Redundancy. For example, Toyota Method ‘Dual Source'

Best Regards

Hello,

The main barriers and risk in implementing multi-sourcing in food industry are:

1 - economical: more expensive - due to lower economies of scale

2 - logistic: less optimization and massification about transportation

3 - health - due to, a priori, more numerous load breaks through warehouses or distribution centres.

We must also emphasize its major advantage: securing supplies and guaranteeing the non-vulnerability of the supply chain. It's very essential at the moment.

Bye

Joe