Abstract

With the application of information technology, more and more practice shows that food and agricultural related industry must rely on information technology. This study listed a few of problems which seriously restricted our domestic food industry to upgrade competitiveness and analyzed about functions of information technology apply to the food industry value chain system in industrial business process reengineering, outsourcing and industrial value chain alliance system and established related model, which manifested the important role of information technology in the upgrading of food industry competitiveness prominently.

Keywords:

Agriculture-oriented, application, food and agriculture related industry, information technology, modeling,

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