This paper presents a cold chain monitoring system which focuses on assessment of quality and dynamic pricing information about food in cold chain. Cold chain is composed of many actors and stages; however it can be seen as a single entity since a breakdown in temperature control at any stage can impact the final quality of the product. In a cold chain, the shelf life, quality, and safety of pe...

Fresh meat is a highly perishable product due to its biological composition. Many interrelated factors influence the shelf life and freshness of meat such as holding temperature, atmospheric oxygen (O(2)), endogenous enzymes, moisture, light and most importantly, micro-organisms. With the increased demand for high quality, convenience, safety, fresh appearance and an extended shelf life in fres...

Dragon fruit is perishable in nature and available only season. Value added product from dragon will be throughout the year Product recipe needed to developed for maintaining quality acceptability consumers. The present experiment was carried out during 2022 Post Harvest Laboratory of Department Horticulture, SHUATS, Prayagraj. conducted Completely Randomized Design with 9 treatment replicated ...

This paper, considers Network Failure Manufacturing System (NFPMS) and production control policy of unreliable multi-machines, multi-products with perishable items. The production control policy is based on the Hedging Point Policy (HPP). The important point in the simulation of this system is assumed that the customers who receive perishable item are placed in priority queue of the customers w...

The need to feed an ever-increasing world population makes it obligatory to reduce the millions of tons of avoidable perishable waste along the food supply chain. A considerable share of these losses is caused by non-optimal cold chain processes and management. This Theme Issue focuses on technologies, models and applications to monitor changes in the product shelf life, defined as the time rem...

This paper formulates an approach for multi-product multi-period (Q ,r) inventory models that calculates the optimal order quantity and optimal reorder point under the constraints of shelf life, budget, storage capacity, and ‘‘extra number of products’’ promotions according to the ordered quantity. Detailed literature reviews conducted in both fields have uncovered no other study proposing such...

INTRODUCTION The importance of efficiency in the supply chain of perishable products, such as the blood products used in transfusion services, cannot be overstated. Many problems can occur, such as the outdating of products, inventory management issues, patient misidentification, and mistransfusion. The purpose of this article was to identify the benefits and barriers associated with radiofrequ...