Analysis on the Cause and Countermeasure of Cold Chain Logistics of Fresh Agricultural Products

<p>During the continuous development of e-commerce, we analyze the fresh food e-commerce market and the reported data in recent years, and explore the selection of fresh agricultural products in the cold chain, transportation and distribution, storage and sales. Meanwhile, countermeasures have been made to solve the problem of cold chain disconnection of fresh agricultural products through supply services, infrastructure construction and information management. Ensuring the continuous chain of the cold chain process needs to rely on the collaboration of consumers, businesses, cold chain logistics and other parties, and the cold chain logistics of fresh agricultural products e-commerce requires more in-depth research to maintain no “broken chain”.</p>

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Research on Cold Chain Logistics of Subsidiary Agricultural Products in Chongqing Based on SWOT Analysis

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.671-674.3011 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 671-674 ◽

pp. 3011-3015

Author(s):

Jing Peng

Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

Development Strategy ◽

Swot Analysis ◽

Economic Loss ◽

Poor Quality ◽

Agricultural Products ◽

Cold Chain ◽

Long Distance ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Fresh Food

In recent years, food safety problems have emerged frequently in China. Fake and poor quality food and the indiscriminate use of additives are to be blamed. However, out-dated cold chain logistics is the more important reason. If the cold chain conditions are not good, the food will deteriorate through long-distance transportation, which will cause food safety problems when they are sold to the final consumers. Cold chain logistics is a major food safety measures. In Chins, through the production, circulation and consumption of cold fresh food, out-dated cold chain not only causes a great economic loss but also threatens food safety .Based on the SWOT analysis, this thesis studies Chongqing agricultural products cold chain logistics development strategy in both qualitative and quantitative aspects in order to better provide directions for the policy makers.

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Optimization of Transportation Routing Problem for Fresh Food by Improved Ant Colony Algorithm Based on Tabu Search

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11236584 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (23) ◽

pp. 6584 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Chen ◽

Gui ◽

Ding ◽

Na ◽

Zhou

Keyword(s):

Tabu Search ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

Ant Colony Algorithm ◽

Agricultural Products ◽

Cold Chain ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Routing Problem ◽

Routing Optimization ◽

Fresh Food ◽

Improved Ant Colony Algorithm

With the continuous improvement of people’s living standards and their increasing demand for fresh food, the cold chain logistics industry has developed rapidly. One of the biggest challenges to today’s cold chain logistics is to offer fresh food while minimizing CO2 emissions. The fresh degree and CO2 emissions are involved in the vehicle routing optimization problem in the cold chain logistics. In order to meet the quality requirement for fresh agricultural products and low carbon logistics, a novel routing optimization model considering the costs of quality deterioration and carbon emissions (Low Carbon and Freshness Degrees Vehicle Routing Problem (LCFD-VRP)) for cold chain distribution was established in this study. This model takes into account the fixed cost, fuel cost and time window penalty cost. An improved ant colony algorithm (IACA) is used to optimize the whole vehicle distribution routing with its strong global search ability. Tabu Search (TS) algorithm is used to search the single vehicle distribution routing with its good local search ability. An IACA combined with TS (IACATS) was proposed to solve the above LCFD-VRP model. The practicability of the model and the effectiveness of the above improved algorithm are verified using a real case study. The results of Zhoushan Dayang Refrigerated Logistics Co., Ltd. showed that, compared with the traditional algorithm, IACATS could reduce the dispatching of two refrigerated vehicles, thus lowering the total cost by 4.94%, shortening the actual transportation distance by 5.50% and cutting the total CO2 emissions by 8.9%. Therefore, the LCFD-VRP model can effectively help to achieve the low carbon emissions, multi-variety and low-cost distribution of fresh agricultural products. The proposed model and IACATS algorithm would be used to optimize VRP in cold chain enterprises. The results of this study also provide management suggestions for cold chain enterprises to effectively balance economic cost and environmental cost.

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Research on the Architecture of Cold Chain Logistics Multimedia Monitoring and Tracking Service Platform Based on Fuzzy Sorting and Heuristic Algorithm

Advances in Multimedia ◽

10.1155/2021/5998153 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Qi Zhang

Keyword(s):

Heuristic Algorithm ◽

Fruits And Vegetables ◽

Heuristic Algorithms ◽

Social Economy ◽

Agricultural Products ◽

Cold Chain ◽

Continuous Development ◽

Logistics System ◽

Service Platform ◽

High Storage

With the continuous development of social economy, the logistics system has been continuously improved. In addition to traditional domestic postal transportation and car consignment, emerging logistics methods such as SF Express and Yunda have also emerged. Aiming at the features such as fragility of fruits and vegetables and high storage requirements, in this paper, a cold chain logistics multimedia monitoring and tracking service platform is built in an attempt to monitor the preservation environment and safety status of agricultural products relying on fuzzy sorting and heuristic algorithms, trace agricultural products with labels, and design the direction of the key data. The practice results show that the system is effective.

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