Halal Supply Chain Framework Focused on Halal Meat (a Systematic Literature Review)

Abstract

The growth rate of Muslim population is recorded as 1.84% per year, which is higher if compared with the growth of the Christian population which reaches 1.32% per year. Higher growth rate of Muslim population has become an interesting topic because Muslims are governed by their own set of laws on how to perform their daily activities. Therefore, many researches have been conducted to discuss and explain on certain topic that can be related to Islamic law such as the benefits to health one can get from performing body movements in their daily Sholat. In this report, the authors shall explore and investigate the way on how to maintain the meat halal status throughout the supply chain, starting from the meat slaughtering process up to the distribution until it finally consumed by the customer. This study will review the literatures systematically that focused on halal meat status, started from the slaughtering process of halal meat in the retail throughout the supply chain process such as warehousing, delivery process and transportation, inventory until it is bought and consumed by the consumer. The whole process must be ascertained as halal. The study was conducted to create the halal meat supply chain framework that focused on halal meat for retail business. From the 32 papers reviewed, the result shows that there are several aspects should be put into consideration in creating halal supply chain framework for halal meat, those are: slaughtering process, delivery process and inventory, haram contamination detection, company management, Islamic purchasing and customer behavior and believe toward halal product.