Cold Chain

As product storage, sorting and replenishment methods continue to evolve, food and beverage warehouses are embracing five technology trends.

Walmart is developing a technology worth $2 billion that inspects fruits and vegetables for defects and can accurately predict the exact date when it will spoil.

Whether semi- or fully-automated, cold storage facilities can automate to cut costs, improve labor productivity and achieve compliance.

Lineage adds more than 20 million cubic feet of capacity to its network.

Mathew Reiffel, operations manager for Americold Logistics, will attend the 2018 Global Cold Chain Expo, 25-27 June in Chicago to compete with other young leaders from around the world for the GCCA NextGen Award.

Given their higher operating costs, cold storage environments stand to benefit most from fleet management best practices.

TOTE Maritime Alaska has selected ORBCOMM to provide a broad portfolio of telematics to monitor and control its refrigerated and dry intermodal and over-the-road assets, including containers, trailers and flatbeds.

Verigo CEO Adam Kinsey describes how the Gainesville company's sensor technology can reduce waste by bringing the Internet of Things to logistics and supply chain management, and after 4 years of R&D, they have launched a leading “pod quality” analysis monitoring device for the perishable supply chain.

The largest ocean cargo gateway for U.S. agricultural exports on the West Coast has announced a major upgrade, as Port of Oakland Commissioners last week approved an $11 million rail spur to Cool Port Oakland.

Food supply chain startup Verigo has launched a new quality analysis platform that enables pallet level monitoring to provide real-time analysis of fresh products, allowing growers, wholesalers, and retailers to increase quality and reduce losses of produce in transit.

This introduction paper provides everything you need to know about Pod Quality, including how it works, features, and benefits.

This comprehensive presentation provides an in-depth look into Pod Quality and covers the value proposition, product life models, current solutions, and the Verigo solution.

This auditing guide details the perishable supply chains for growers, distributors, and retailers, and how using Pod Quality as an auditing tool makes complex supply chains less daunting to analyze with unprecedented insight and control.

While Amazon’s recent bid to purchase Whole Foods made mainstream headlines, the e-commerce giant will still need to adhere to time-tested realities. Any way you slice it, the integrated U.S. cold chain requires optimized service from existing ports, 3PLs, cold storage warehousing, transportation providers and high-value vendors.

This consumer-focused “cold chain”—temperature controlled supply chain—is only a recent example of a decades-long push to perfect a global system of item level tracking in supply chain management.