Environmental factors in time and space play a critical role in advancing the sustainable development of the fresh agricultural product supply chain. This paper, availing the panel data of 31 Chinese provinces from 2008 to 2019, constructs a system of indicators assessing the development of the fresh agricultural product supply chain, and obtains the comprehensive development level in the Entropy Weight Method (EWM). Furthermore, it establishes a comparison between optimal solutions generated by the Instrumental Variables Method (IVM) and the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) over the endogeneity issue of variables, creates the comparison between the weighted regression methods of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) and Multi-scale Geographic Weighted Regression (MGWR), and obtains the relationship among the 14 environmental factors in their spatio-temporal impacts on the development of the fresh agricultural product supply chain. The results indicate that: (1) the environmental influencing factors in this paper have significant endogenous problems and various environmental factors impact on the fresh agricultural product supply chain in different trends and to different degrees. (2) With different bandwidths, the environmental factors could impact the fresh agricultural product supply chain to greatly varied degrees, demonstrating a strong attribute of regional correlation.
Cold chain logistics are crucial for reducing agricultural product loss, yet the environmental impact of energy and packaging consumption, among others, demands attention, making the search for eco-friendly development modes essential. Based on data from 30 provinces in China from 2015 to 2021, this study analyzes the basic correlation between the development of cold chain logistics of fresh agricultural products (CCLFAP) and the ecological environment (EE) by using a random forest regression model in comparison with the XGBoost model. Correlation heatmaps were used to analyze the relationships between the cold chain logistics of fresh agricultural products and various factors of the ecological environment. The generalized additive model was then used to establish the connection between cold chain logistics and the ecological environment, identifying significant factors impacting EE. The results demonstrate that a higher development level of cold chain logistics corresponds to a better development trend of EE. The economic efficiency and technical aspects of cold chain logistics for fresh agricultural products are closely related to ecological pressures and responses. The number of employees in the logistics industry, the trading volume of fresh agricultural products, the number of refrigerated vehicles, and the capacity of the cold room have significant positive correlations with the ecological environment, while the per capita consumption of fresh agricultural products, the number of cold chain logistics patent applications, and the road density had significant negative correlations with the ecological environment. The effects of the number of cold chain logistics enterprises and the freight turnover of agricultural products transported by the cold chain on the ecological environment fluctuated. These findings contribute to reducing climate and environmental emergencies throughout the life cycle, offering sustainable development solutions for the fresh agricultural product cold chain logistics industry.
E-commerce platform-based supply chains have emerged as efficient and widely used channels for the distribution of agricultural products, with low-carbon supply chains capable of reducing the carbon footprint of these products from the initial to the terminal stage, which has led to their increasing adoption by consumers. Based on major e-commerce platforms in China, combined with an extended technology acceptance model, this study examines the factors affecting low-carbon supply chain adoption by agricultural product consumers on e-commerce platforms. The results showed that consumers’ perceived risk, perceived usefulness, and adoption attitude all influence their adoption behavior, with the effect of adoption attitude being the greatest. Furthermore, the effect of perceived usefulness on adoption attitude is stronger than that of perceived risk. Moreover, perceived usefulness is affected mainly by the perceived price, technical utility, green behavior tendency, and subjective norms, whereas the perceived risk is affected mainly by technical utility, information display and dissemination, and green behavior tendency. This study provides valuable insights for e-commerce platforms to better understand the needs of agricultural product consumers, improve market competitiveness, and enhance consumers’ awareness and willingness of adopting low-carbon approaches, which can promote the low-carbon sustainable development of agricultural product supply chains.
With the development of the mobile Internet of Things, people have higher and higher requirements for services, and how to provide high‐quality services that meet the needs of users has also become a hot issue of current research. This article is also in the context of the mobile Internet of Things, researching the solution to the service matching problem. In order to provide high‐quality grid services, the grid system needs the support of quality of service (QoS). Based on the existing QoS matching strategy, a service matching strategy based on dynamic grid QoS is proposed. This paper combines semantic information, considers service quality QoS and user preferences, and improves the success rate of service matching through hierarchical matching, so as to provide users with high‐quality services. At the same time, the classic Max‐Min algorithm in grid task scheduling is analysed, and on this basis, the impact of QoS on task scheduling is fully considered, and combined with the concept of execution cost, a grid task based on QoS constraints (MOS) is proposed. Through simulation verification and analysis, the strategy in this paper not only achieved higher matching performance, but also improved the success rate of task execution, and the effect of system load balancing was also significantly improved.
18 June 2013 in Total Quality Management & Business Excellence