Enhancing the Resilience of Food Cold Chain Logistics Through Digital Transformation

Yu, Poshan; Liu, Zhiruo; Sampat, Michael

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“…Problems in cold supply chains are a known cause of food losses (Skawińska and Zalewski, 2022). Moreover, the global cold chain logistics market is expected to grow from around 248.4 billion US dollars in 2020 to more than 410 billion US dollars by 2028 according to estimations published by Statista in 2021 (Yu et al ., 2023); hence, it makes sense for researchers to focus their attention on increasing the efficiency of cold supply chains to decrease food losses.…”

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Improving the picking efficiency of a cold warehouse to avoid temperature abuse

Benaglia,

Chen,

et al. 2024

IJLM

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PurposeThis research investigates how to optimize storage location assignment to decrease the order picking time and the waiting time of orders in the staging area of low-temperature logistics centers, with the goal of reducing food loss caused by temperature abuse.Design/methodology/approachThe authors applied ABC clustering to the products in a simulated database of historical orders modeled after the actual order pattern of a large cold logistics company; then, the authors mined the association rules and calculated the sales volume correlation indices of the ordered products. Finally, the authors generated three different simulated order databases to compare order picking time and waiting time of orders in the staging area under eight different storage location assignment strategies.FindingsAll the eight proposed storage location assignment strategies significantly improve the order picking time (by up to 8%) and the waiting time of orders in the staging area (by up to 22%) compared with random placement.Research limitations/implicationsThe results of this research are based on a case study and simulated data, which implies that, if the best performing strategies are applied to different environments, the extent of the improvements may vary. Additionally, the authors only considered specific settings in terms of order picker routing, zoning and batching: other settings may lead to different results.Practical implicationsA storage location assignment strategy that adopts dispersion and takes into consideration ABC clustering and shipping frequency provides the best performance in minimizing order picker's travel distance, order picking time, and waiting time of orders in the staging area. Other strategies may be a better fit if the company's objectives differ.Originality/valuePrevious research on optimal storage location assignment rarely considered item association rules based on sales volume correlation. This study combines such rules with several storage planning strategies, ABC clustering, and two warehouse layouts; then, it evaluates their performance compared to the random placement, to find which one minimizes the order picking time and the order waiting time in the staging area, with a 30-min time limit to preserve the integrity of the cold chain. Order picking under these conditions was rarely studied before, because they may be irrelevant when dealing with temperature-insensitive items but become critical in cold warehouses to prevent temperature abuse.

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Improving the picking efficiency of a cold warehouse to avoid temperature abuse

Benaglia,

Chen,

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IJLM

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Integration of the Internet of Things and Blockchain to Promote Collaboration in Smart Cities

Zhao²,

Hanes³

2023

Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication

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This chapter aims to explore the importance of the convergence and collaboration of the internet of things and blockchain in enabling the development of smart cities. It will capture the strong link between the burgeoning advanced technology and China's fast-growing smart cities. In addition, the authors used the CiteSpace bibliometric tool to analyse the core journals related to smart cities, IoT, and blockchain in WoS and CNKI operations and visualise the relationships between the literature as a scientific knowledge map. The research topic in this chapter focuses on the keywords with the highest frequency and determines the research frontier and trend. This chapter will further explore the roles of the government in promoting the integration of the internet of things and blockchain in the development agenda of industrial infrastructure and smart cities through policies (i.e., institutions).

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Enhancing the Resilience of Food Cold Chain Logistics Through Digital Transformation

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Improving the picking efficiency of a cold warehouse to avoid temperature abuse

Improving the picking efficiency of a cold warehouse to avoid temperature abuse

Integration of the Internet of Things and Blockchain to Promote Collaboration in Smart Cities

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