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In current business global society, every food industry company is making efforts to provide high quality of products and satisfaction to customers. Balancing the low cost but with high efficiency when undertaking cold chain logistics becomes competitiveness in business market. This thesis is mainly to study cold chain management in food logistics by a multiple case study on food industry. The purpose of the paper is to advance the understanding of the cold chain management in food industry, aim to find how an efficient way to combine the logistics cost and the effectiveness of cold chain logistics and the challenges of the cold chain logistics in food industry. In this multiple case study, qualitative method was used to describe findings. The data collected can be divided into two types, the primary data and the secondary data. Primary data indicates the face-to-face interview with the managers and employees working for customer service in the selected companies. The secondary data are resources from archives, websites and other printed materials. To improve the validity, related literature were reviewed by authors to find the research questions. The reliability can be guaranteed because the theory part of the thesis abstracted from the publications, which have been approved for many years. The authors give the overview and practice in cold chain logistics of the three case companies, also mention the challenges both in developing and developed countries. The study finds the way to improve the utilization in cold chain logistics, fill the gap of logistics in food industry and give some advices for food industry.

Abstract Background/motivation for the study: Since the late 1970s, China has seen an unprecedented growth in its economy and with that growth follows the improvement in the quality of life for a majority of its citizens. Naturally, people  will focus more on the quality of their daily nutritional products as a result. One of the technologies for preserving food products is called Cold Chain Logistics, which is deal with processing, transporting and storing food products. Despite its rapid development in China, the Cold Chain Logistics system still has many problems to be dealt with by its new users thus exploring how it can better adapt to a more demanding consumers is very interesting. We will use Henan Province QI County Yongda Food Industry CO.LTD as an example for illustrating how a food industry company can effectively manage its Cold Chain Logistics system.    Purpose: The purpose of  this thesis is to first learn about in Cold Chain Logistics in the food industry through different literatures and second, to understand the main differences in Cold Chain Logistics in the food industry when China is  compared with USA and Japan  and third,  to help Cold Chain Logistics in China be improved through technology and management.    Methods: In order to answer the purposes of this thesis, firstly, we read and write an extensive literature review related to this thesis. Secondly, we use Yongda Company as a case study.  Interviews with the one manager and two employees are major source of data collection.    Findings: We present and compare the differences between Chinese, American and Japaneses’ implementation of systems through various angles. China's Cold Chain Logistics is  still  in the development stage. The whole Cold Chain Logistics has not matured. Furthermore, a  case study  is conducted on how Yongda Company can have many significant advantages over its competitors in Cold Chain Logistics and how  their techniques and management styles can benefit other companies if applied correctly throughout China.     Contributions: This thesis will show that how to management Cold Chain Logistics in the real company.    Key words: Cold Chain Logistics, CCL, Yongda Company, food industry.

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Abstract Title: How to assess risks in weak links in cold chain distribution process? Authors: Shuchang Lu, Yufan Gu & Radzion Predko Tutor: Åsa Gustafsson Examiner: Dr. Lars-Olof Rask Course: 4FE06E - Master Thesis Research Questions: • Why do cold chain products have quality risk? -  What kind of weak links exist in distribution process of cold chain? -  What kind of risks exist in weak links of distribution process of cold chain? -  How to assess risks in weak links of distribution process of cold chain? Background: The increasing food wastes and starving people have made food preserved by cold chain as a significant and profitable issue. An effective and efficiency cold chain can make a big difference in the whole food supply chain around the world. With the improvements of modern technologies, cold chain distribution is experiencing changes. Purpose: To identify weak links in distribution channel of cold chain products. What kind of risks exist in these weak inks and how to assess them. Method: Positivistic is used throughout the paper. Multiple exploratory case study is our way of research our problems. Data were gathered from interview, documents and company’s website. Conclusions: Human handling in delivery process, the way retailers deal with frozen products, how do different participants manage their resources and safety of product and its quality are main reasons for quality risk. Risks in weak links can cause product quality problem in cold chain distribution channel. Therefore, assess these risks can help managers to deal with them. Keywords: Cold chain distribution, quality problem, weak link, risk

Thesis (M. Consumer Science)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.

Thesis (M. Consumer Science)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / Real-time monitoring of temperature is a critical factor in ensuring the integrity of food during the cold chain. In this work, we compare techniques related to real-time data visualization to contribute to more efficient monitoring of the cold chain. Three real-time data display attributes were evaluated, and we constructed a dataset based on the Frisbee database (CDD). In this paper, we proposed graphics containing different line and area techniques to be evaluated for a specialist. The proposed graphs contained the line and area techniques that, when performing the experiment, obtained a higher success rate compared to the auto-charting technique. However, it was evidenced that elements such as color facilitate the detection of anomalies and trends in temperature change due to its high percentage of effectiveness in the results. / Revisión por pares

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¡@The Port of Kaohsiung is an international commercial port, situated in the geographic center of Southeast Asia, linking China as a key hub. It links Japan and Korea to the north, and the Emerging ASEAN Market ¡V 10 nations in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations down south. There is no doubt that Port of Kaohsiung is now playing the key role as a worldwide Transshipment Center. Though there are many logistic related firms surrounded by the Port of Kaohsiung, most of them are running Container Storage and Freight Distribution business only. Lacking big logistic center of cold chain, marine products cannot be processed efficiently after unloading from refrigerators on ships. These seafood, needed to be packaging and exporting after processing, must be unloaded at general cargo berths and then moved to the frozen warehouses outside the harbor. ¡@This research applies a qualitative method of focus group interview. Through the comments given by VIP, professionals, and other members of focus groups in the selected firms, this research was hence capable of analyzing the problem and policy of creating a logistic center of seafood cold chain in the Kaohsiung Free Trade Zone. ¡@Kaohsiung is a main fishing port with numerous large ocean vessels and plenty marine products, it cannot be too far to assume that the creation of the logistic center for the cold chain would have huge contribution to attract customer, reduce operation cost, and enrich the competitive niches of related industry. As a result, the center will ultimately help to develop the ocean fishing business and to increase the trading volume of Kaohsiung. ¡@Finally, the conclusion of this research is expected to be applied in practice, all the issues found and suggestions made are for the references of both public and private sectors to help establishing the logistic center for cold chain as the ultimate goal of the research.