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Today, companies need to provide effective information flow with all stakeholders as part of the supply chain to be successful in order to build their corporate systems well, integrate their internal processes and maintain their activities efficiently. In food supply chains, the risk that environmental parameters create for human health due to food safety in the process that is broken from the field, the need for effective supply chain management when assessed the short livelihoods of food and variable quality criteria. For this purpose, the use of information technologies, through the transparency of the food supply chain, enables traceability, ensures food safety and preserves food quality. This article discusses information technologies: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Internet of Objects (IoT) and Blockchain Systems principles and applications in the food industry.

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 Nowadays firms must ensure effective flow of information with all stakeholders as a part of the supply chain in order to be successful as well as to establish their corporate systems well, integrate their internal processes and continue their activities efficiently. In food supply chains; in the process from farm to fork, the need for an effective supply chain management is remarkable on account of the ambient parameters pose a risk to human health due to food safety, short shelf life and variable quality criteria of foods. As advantages of information technologies usage; food supply chain will be transparent and enables traceability, food safety will ensure and food quality will maintain. In this article, the principles of enterprise resource planning (ERP), radio frequency identification (RFID), Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain systems from information technologies and their applications in the food industry are examined.