Intelligent supply chain lets fresh products lead "fresh" all the way

With the rapid development of China's economy, people's living standards gradually improve, fresh products category richness, product freshness, consumer scene convenience and other requirements are also comprehensively improved. Reasonable food preservation technology and perfect supply chain system are the key to ensure the rich, safe and fresh products, and realize the sustainable use of food resources and harmonious coexistence with the environment. But at present, China's modern cold chain logistics system has not been perfected, the low utilization rate of cold chain is still a major pain point restricting China's agricultural products industry. In this regard, experts said, from the perspective of industrial union and network data, traffic integration, improve food preservation technology, the construction of intelligent fresh products green supply chain, in order to make high-quality, safe fresh products from the source to the table all the way to lead "fresh".
Industry development bottlenecks
Data show that due to the imperfection of the cold chain system, China's annual waste of about 12 million tons of fruit and 130 million tons of vegetables, the total value of more than 10 billion U.S. dollars, fresh aquatic products after the loss rate of up to 15%. "Agricultural products, aquatic products and other fresh food itself has the characteristics of short shelf life, if the lack of technical treatment and scientific means of preservation after harvest, it is easy to cause product corruption, food quality decline, poor safety and other adverse consequences." This will not only cause economic losses and waste of resources, but also cause harm to people's health. "Industry insiders suggest that reasonable food preservation technology and a sound supply chain system are the key to ensure consumer health, sustainable use of food resources, and harmonious coexistence with the environment.
"There is 30 per cent global food waste, while freezing consumes 15 per cent of the world's electricity and produces greenhouse gases, and food after-harvesting technologies demonstrate important research value in sustainable development initiatives such as Zero Hunger and Climate Action." Leo Lukasse, a researcher at the Institute of Food Biology at the University of Wahningen in the Netherlands, said.
reasonable food preservation technology and perfect supply chain system is of great significance, but China's modern cold chain logistics system has not been perfect, coupled with the impact of the global epidemic, the industry is facing no small challenges.
Sun Chongde, vice president of Zhejiang University's School of Agriculture and Biotechnology, said that the proportion of cold chain logistics of agricultural products in China is growing, but in the cold chain logistics of agricultural products, practitioners pay little attention to the "first kilometer" and "last kilometer", the third-party cold chain logistics enterprise development momentum is strong but still needs to be improved.
, a member of the Operations Research and Logistics Research Group at the University of Wahningen Research Center, said that as technology continues to evolve, cold chain containers with their own temperature and humidity can be used more and more widely in the supply chain, and their market coverage is gradually replacing refrigerated carriers. However, due to the current container inland transport of trucks accounted for a large proportion of the port may lead to road congestion, negative impact on the environment.
Heineper Global Production Internet of Things business information platform product manager Xiaoxuan, the supply chain network optimization refers to by the environment, resource factors, etc. into cost data, try to under a series of influences, the non-constant enterprise capacity and market demand for optimal docking, so as to complete the optimization of the production network. "This is in line with logistics network optimization, which we optimize by layout distributors and warehouse locations to balance user needs and production costs." However, the complexity and variability of the real problems, how to balance the supply chain influence factors, to obtain the decision-making level of the trust of data network optimization, and different enterprises to obtain effective and accurate data in different enterprises, etc. , are our challenges. "
" the Netherlands as a large producer of agricultural products, during the outbreak, the huge and sound industrial chain is still facing supply, logistics, market three shocks. Han Kun, chief representative of the Dutch Fruit and Vegetable Association in China, said this was reflected in the rising cost of logistics, labor costs and safety measures. "As a result of the outbreak, the entire plant has been operating longer, affecting production capacity, logistics delays and channel restrictions due to border closures, and uncertainty over the closure and recovery of the catering market has resulted in the loss of significant market share for Dutch fruits and vegetables. In addition, the C-side consumer demand for fruits and vegetables in quantities and categories is increasing, increasing the complexity of product circulation."
"There are challenges, but there are opportunities." Sun Chongde said that, taking the cold chain logistics of agricultural products as an example, although the industry needs to break through the bottleneck, but also has the world environment is constantly changing, science and technology to promote the development of fourth-party logistics, agricultural products cold chain logistics system standardization gradually improved and new models of new industry emerging opportunities.
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in the face of many challenges, domestic and foreign industry enterprises and industry associations actively from the industrial union, network data and other aspects of the road to find a breakthrough. "Ensuring food quality is a top priority in the fresh produce supply chain, and we want to reduce post-harvest losses while continuing to supply high-quality products, which requires a combination of product physiology, post-harvest engineering, data science and agricultural logistics to slow food quality changes." Jac Verschoor, a researcher at the Institute of Food Biology at the University of Wahningen, said.
Leo Lucas said that in the refrigeration control process, the compressor and evaporator fan speed control can significantly reduce energy consumption, and through the exploration and optimization of product storage impact factors, technology selection, equipment design and process construction and quality assessment system four links, can achieve high-quality food preservation.
Regarding the loss of aquatic products, Xie Jing, dean of shanghai Ocean University's School of Food, said that through ozone and electrolytic water ice treatment, we can efficiently kill microorganisms on the surface of food and significantly extend the shelf life of ice storage;
In order to gain the trust of decision-making level in the optimization of data-based networks and obtain effective and accurate data in different enterprise differentiated data, Zhai Xiaoxuan said that in the future, business information will be further developed, real-time monitoring of production data through the sensors of production machines, and the real-time application of production data in supply chain network design, so that enterprises can better grasp the production, transportation and marketing supply chain influencing factors, so as to complete the optimal design of cost control.
to solve the problem of road congestion in the port area, it is particularly important to integrate the flow of transportation means and containers and improve the utilization rate. The integration of containers through cargo integration centers, the use of multi-modal transport is the best choice for long-distance transport of ordinary products, while the combination of container multi-transport and cargo integration (into larger containers or trailers) is more suitable for short-distance and perishable product transport. In the future, for environmental protection, multi-transport and green energy are also key to the development of refrigerated containers.
's project management manager at XPO Logistics Europe, a global logistics and supply chain service provider, said the company analyzes processes among all supply chains, identifies organizational components that can be optimized, identifies areas for improvement, collaborates with teams and users, and conducts financial evaluations to ultimately select the optimal plan for implementation. In addition, the company will continue to add a number of innovative indicators, and ultimately achieve optimal operating performance and economic regulations.
combined with the experience of studying in China, Jessie Weschel suggested that Chinese food preservation should be controlled from the source to improve the awareness of people in the field of production. "E-commerce is now widely used in China, and more in-depth research is needed on the hidden dangers associated with fresh logistics."
in addition, Sun Chongde added that in the face of the current cold chain logistics industry development momentum, local governments and associations should also seize the opportunity to promote farmers and local related enterprises to use cold chain technology matching cold chain logistics, encourage farmers through the network, e-commerce and other platforms to help sell agricultural products, through publicity and other means to promote effective docking between buyers and farmers.
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