V.ISC.2406 - Discovery on Australia's livestock transport sector's uptake of eNVDs
Did you know livestock transporters facilitating electronic National Vendor Declarations (eNVDs) are critical to fast-tracking industry transition to digital and paperless NVDs.
| Project start date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Project end date: | 31 January 2025 |
| Publication date: | 12 November 2024 |
| Project status: | Completed |
| Livestock species: | Grain-fed Cattle, Grass-fed Cattle, Sheep, Goat, Lamb |
| Relevant regions: | National |
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Summary
Livestock transporters facilitating electronic National Vendor Declarations (eNVDs) are critical to fast-tracking industry transition to digital and paperless NVDs. This project sought input from a variety of livestock transporters throughout Australia to map current NVD processes across different scenarios to better understand potential barriers to uptake of eNVD technology and ways to overcome the barriers. The project will benefit industry by addressing gaps in knowledge of transport scenario processes as well as gaps in formal consultation with users and data from transporters as key links in the red meat supply chain.
Objectives
Conduct interviews with minimum transporter businesses to define current attitudes, resistance and barriers to eNVD adoption and ways to increase use of the app in the transport sector.
Document different transport journey scenarios, describe how consignments are being recorded on paper NVDs in them and identify the anecdotal limitations of the current digital solution.
Provide a final report that includes recommendations on specific actions ISC may take to overcome the barriers to eNVD adoption in the transport industry.
Key findings
• The paper NVD system is well established across the livestock supply chain throughout Australia. The livestock transport industry is fast-paced, often with high volumes of livestock being loaded, transported and unloaded in time-dependent circumstances to meet curfews of processors or abattoirs and accommodate different jobs in one day.
• Any digital process must be simple, easy-to-use, quick to accomplish tasks and perform consistently, without adding to the workload of transporters.
• Transporters have experienced significant technical difficulties with the current eNVD technology, contributing to a less than favourable reputation for eNVDs.
• Any digital process must be simple, easy-to-use, quick to accomplish tasks and perform consistently, without adding to the workload of transporters.
Benefits to industry
Transporters are a crucial link in the Australian red meat supply chain and engaging with them directly through this project has addressed a current gap in formal consultation and data collection with users. By understanding transporters as users of eNVD technology as well as the scale and complexity of livestock journeys across Australia, the project has identified various barriers to adoption impacting uptake of digital traceability technology nation-wide and made suggestions to overcome those barriers.
The consultation has provided insight into the challenges faced by livestock transporters and allowed the transport sector to provide input into potential solutions.
The project has also pinpointed areas throughout the supply chain that would benefit from further consultation to understand systems and processes with the goal of ultimately enhancing efficiency, collaboration and traceability across the industry.
MLA action
ISC has formed an action plan to improve the uptake of the eNVD platform by the livestock transport industry. By utilising findings from this report, a tailor made approach for improving the understanding and functionality of the eNVD app has been put in place.
Future research
Following this project, investigations into specific user cases for transporters using the eNVD app will be completed. Understanding transporter requirements and specific changes to communications and functionality will be investigated.
More information
| Project manager: | Gabrielle Sherring |
| Contact email: | reports@mla.com.au |
| Primary researcher: | AgStar Projects Pty Ltd |
