Firms today are striving to adopt innovations to ensure their survival, value creation and success. Innovation is increasingly seen as an outcome of a collaborative process, involving various stakeholders both within and outside the firms, in supply chain relationships. Collaborative arrangements are gaining traction and the focus of innovation is shifting from firms to their supply chain networks. This leads to the notion of supply chain innovation, which has been widely accepted as an important ingredient for improving the organisational and supply chain performance of firms. Inefficient practices such as improper crop selection, involvement of too many intermediaries, flood irrigation, over-fertilization and food waste necessitate innovative practices that will improve the sustainability of the food supply chain. In this regard, there is a need to investigate how collaboration among food supply chain entities leads to innovative practices and how these innovative practices in turn improve the sustainability of the food supply chain. This study aims to address this gap using the case of the Indian Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs). Further, using the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, the supply chain of FPO is divided into five levels - plan, source, make, deliver and return and the case is analysed across these levels. The findings show that the formation of FPO through collaboration facilitates many innovative practices that result in several economic, environmental and social benefits to the FPO.

当今的企业正在努力采用创新技术，以确保其生存，价值创造和成功。越来越多的创新被视为协作过程的结果，协作过程涉及公司内部和外部的各个利益相关者之间的供应链关系。协作安排越来越受关注，创新的重点正从公司转移到他们的供应链网络。这导致了供应链创新的概念，它已被广泛接受为改善公司的组织和供应链绩效的重要组成部分。效率低下的做法，例如作物选择不当，过多的中介机构参与，洪水灌溉，过度施肥和食物浪费，都需要采取创新措施，以改善食物供应链的可持续性。在这方面，有必要调查食品供应链实体之间的协作如何导致创新做法，以及这些创新做法又如何改善食品供应链的可持续性。这项研究旨在利用印度农民生产者组织（FPO）的情况来解决这一差距。此外，使用供应链运营参考（SCOR）模型，FPO的供应链分为五个级别-计划，来源，制造，交付和退货，并在这些级别上分析案例。调查结果表明，通过合作形成FPO促进了许多创新做法，从而为FPO带来了一些经济，环境和社会利益。