@article{Ronan:139898,
      recid = {139898},
      author = {Ronan, Glenn and Blacketer, Stephen and Sterenberg,  Lyndal},
      title = {Evaluating the Potential of VineAccess to Improve Supply  Chain Efficiency in Australian Viticulture and Perennial  Horticulture},
      address = {2006},
      number = {417-2016-26365},
      pages = {30},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {The paper outlines the trading options that pertain to the  Australian viticulture industry, some of
the challenges for  stakeholders that have surfaced in recent vintages and need  to be managed
differently in the changing market  environment of intensifying competitiveness in  the
international market, concentration of supply chains  and increasing food safety compliance
requirements.
A  benefit:cost evaluation of data from the trial of a new  information and communication
technology (ICT) based  viticulture supply chain management system, VineAccess,  with leading
winemakers in the 2004-05 vintage is  presented. The ICT-based system indicates  substantial
savings compared to the traditional system of  transacting business between winemakers and
winegrape  growers in the Australian wine industry. A benefit:cost  ratio of 7, imputed from the
trial, extrapolates to about  $4 million of potential benefit for adoption by the  Australian wine
industry of ICT based systems.
The paper  also outlines the potential for like-systems to be  developed and applied in other
perennial horticulture  industries.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/139898},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.139898},
}