As global wealth and prosperity shifts, Food Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCO) and Chief Sustainability officers (CSO) must become even closer global partners in order to survive. For instance, according the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that at least three million lives are lost annually due to carbon emission. Several known sources including utility plants, organic food matter, and other industrial supply chain (combustion engines) sources. This life expectancy number creates a sense of urgency for growing multi- national food companies (MNFCs). The implications are clear, failure to develop and implement effective supply chain CO 2 strategies in the Paris Climate Agreement and China Carbon Trading era could lead to further humans, animals, and businesses losses. In contrast, MNFCs must grow in developing markets or face a difficult future. This research study offers an innovative MNFC sustainable supply roadmap and technology innovations to address future sales growth and lower greenhouse gas emissions. First, this paper engages leading international subject matter experts (SME) whom influence the world’s largest multi-national food companies. The paper’s SME’s provide a high-level Food MNCs Supply Chain roadmap. Second, this paper reveals emerging MNFC technologies which could help fill two (new product development and strategic sourcing) of six global food sustainable supply chain research gaps suggested by this research paper’s SME’s. MNFC gaps such as blockchain, machine learning and internet of things (IoT) are integrated into this paper’s findings and MNFC sustainable supply chain conceptual roadmap. Although this paper is narrowly focused on the global food exporters yet many aspects of this paper apply to many global consumer products companies. Collectively this paper could to useful to researchers, government and industry leaders.

@inproceedings{oscm-2019-519,
  title={Negotiating the Multi-National Sustainable Food Supply Chain: A Conceptual Roadmap},
  year={2019},
  author={John Wilkerson and Yuehe Cui and Yixin Jin and Yiqin Lin},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management, Vietnam, 2019},
  doi={10.31387/oscm410179}
}

John Wilkerson, Yuehe Cui, Yixin Jin, Yiqin Lin (2019). Negotiating the Multi-National Sustainable Food Supply Chain: A Conceptual Roadmap. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management, Vietnam, 2019. https://doi.org/10.31387/oscm410179