scholarly journals Application of Cold Chain Logistics Safety Reliability in Fresh Food Distribution Optimization

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 356-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zou Yifeng ◽  
Xie Ruhe
Keyword(s):  
Food Distribution ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Fresh Food

Assessing the Readiness of Farmers Towards Cold Chain Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 1570-1587
Author(s):  
Rohit Joshi ◽  
Sudhanshu Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Cold Chain ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Consumer Prices ◽  
Fresh Food ◽  
Building Market ◽  
Farm Produce ◽  
Food Safety And Quality ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Awareness Level

The purpose of the paper is to gain an insight into the current status of farmers' awareness and practices towards maintaining the postharvest cold chain. The related hypotheses are developed and tested. The major findings include- marginalized and small farms, literacy and poor awareness level are the main causes for the backwardness of Indian farmers. Also, lack of funds forces farmers to ignore the use of cold storage. Further, multi-intermediaries and fluctuating consumer prices result farmers in not getting fair share of the consumer rupee. One of the major challenges in front of fresh food industry in India is to reduce postharvest losses across the chain through increasing awareness level of famers towards cold chain, building market information systems to assist farmers in decision-making and improving food safety and quality of farm produce available in the market.

Optimization of Fresh Food Distribution Route Using Genetic Algorithm with the Best Selection Technique

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-199
Author(s):  
Douiri Lamiae ◽  
Abdelouahhab Jabri ◽  
Abdellah El Barkany ◽  
A.-Moumen Darcherif
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
Selection Technique ◽  
Fresh Food

Fresh Food Online Supermarket Development Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xie Xiang ◽  
Liu Jiashi ◽  
Guan Zhongliang ◽  
Ke Xinsheng
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Predictive Analysis ◽  
Quality Changes ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Development Status ◽  
Fresh Food ◽  
Development Analysis

The preservation of fresh food is difficult, so the problems of food safety and the waste of it are very serious. The development of Fresh food online supermarkets will contribute to solve the problem. On the basis of describing the concept, scope and development status of fresh food, the development advantage and disadvantage of fresh food online supermarket is analyzed by SWOT method, future development analysis of the fresh food online supermarkets is been done. Predictive analysis of the future development of the fresh food online supermarkets mainly includes the spread of the fresh food online supermarkets, price transparency, food quality changes, fresh food cold chain logistics improvement and goods consumption evaluation. The relevant suggestions could promote the rapid and healthy development of the fresh food online supermarkets.

scholarly journals Cost-Optimization Problem with a Soft Time Window Based on an Improved Fuzzy Genetic Algorithm for Fresh Food Distribution

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Ming Wang ◽  
Hong Li Yin
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Cost Model ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
Food Plants ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
Fresh Food ◽  
Fuzzy Clustering Method ◽  
Fuzzy Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Fuzzy Genetic

Given the increasing demand for fresh food quality, fresh food plants must manage not only product cost but more importantly the product quality. The transportation requirements for fresh food delivery have been continuously increasing. The purpose of this paper is to develop a method to ensure that fresh food can be delivered just in time and with minimum total cost while maintaining the quality of fresh food. Considering that fresh food plants need multiple trucks to deliver multiple products to numerous geographically dispersed customers, the delivery of fresh food is considered in two stages in our study. The first stage is cluster consumers; that is, we determine to which consumers each truck is responsible for delivery. The second stage, which is based on the consumer grouping results, develops a total cost model that includes the transportation, refrigerated, devalued, and penalty costs incurred during distribution. This model is used to determine the optimal route selection, the temperature control, and the average speed of each truck in distribution. This paper designs decision variables based on a customer’s seven requirement attributes; it also proposes a fuzzy clustering method for grouping customers and improves a fuzzy genetic algorithm that is used to solve the proposed total cost model. The application of the proposed method is demonstrated using an example. The experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance than that of a traditional genetic algorithm. This research work provides an optimal distribution total cost decision method for the logistics managers. This research also provides an effective means to ensure the safety of fresh food.

Research progress of packaging indicating materials for real-time monitoring of food quality

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 377-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danfei Liu ◽  
Ling Yang ◽  
Mi Shang ◽  
Yunfei Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Shelf Life ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Packaging Materials ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Fresh Food

The rapid development of cold-chain transportation necessitates consumers to present high requirements on safety and freshness of fresh food in recent years. The quality and taste of fresh food can be monitored and controlled through the intelligent packaging technologies and new food packaging materials such as time-temperature indicators (TTIs), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), biological composites and polymer nanocomposites. Based on different packaging materials, indicators and sensors are employed in food packaging for real-time detection of information about freshness, temperature, microbiological, and shelf life of products in the supply chain. Wide varieties of packaging materials are suitable for providing intelligent and smart properties for food packaging, such as oxygen scavenging capability, antimicrobial activity, and recording the thermal history. Due to the special properties of prepared materials, TTIs are used to point out the remaining shelf life of perishable products throughout the supply chain. Compared with others, they have the advantages of low cost, small size and convenient indication. Additionally, the TTIs can effectively solve food quality and safety problems caused by temperature fluctuation in supply chain. Since the irreversible color change of TTIs, the food safety situation would be shown intuitively. Currently, the TTIs were widely used in application of food packaging by providing safety information. However, the application is also accompanied with some deficiencies such as the accuracy of monitoring, migration of toxic substances, stability and expensive cost etc. This review will deeply discuss the preparation of various types of TTIs based on different package indicating materials with a particular emphasis on how to improve their accuracy and stability, control the migration of toxic substances and to develop new TTIs.

Assessing the Readiness of Farmers towards Cold Chain Management

2016 ◽  
pp. 219-235
Author(s):  
Rohit Joshi ◽  
Sudhanshu Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Cold Chain ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Consumer Prices ◽  
Fresh Food ◽  
Building Market ◽  
Farm Produce ◽  
Food Safety And Quality ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Awareness Level

The purpose of the paper is to gain an insight into the current status of farmers' awareness and practices towards maintaining the postharvest cold chain. The related hypotheses are developed and tested. The major findings include- marginalized and small farms, literacy and poor awareness level are the main causes for the backwardness of Indian farmers. Also, lack of funds forces farmers to ignore the use of cold storage. Further, multi-intermediaries and fluctuating consumer prices result farmers in not getting fair share of the consumer rupee. One of the major challenges in front of fresh food industry in India is to reduce postharvest losses across the chain through increasing awareness level of famers towards cold chain, building market information systems to assist farmers in decision-making and improving food safety and quality of farm produce available in the market.

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