scholarly journals Design of a Distributed Wireless Sensor Platform for Monitoring and Real-Time Communication of the Environmental Variables during the Supply Chain of Perishable Commodities

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6183
Author(s):  
Roque Torres-Sanchez ◽  
María Teresa Martínez Zafra ◽  
Fulgencio Soto-Valles ◽  
Manuel Jiménez-Buendía ◽  
Ana Toledo-Moreo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Shelf Life ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Collaborative Networks ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Sensor Platform ◽  
Food Losses ◽  
Quality And Shelf Life ◽  
Main Factor

Monitoring the main environmental conditions during storage and transportation of perishable foods is necessary to predict quality losses throughout shelf life. By far, temperature is the main factor affecting quality and shelf life, but there are other variables that would greatly affect quality losses such us relative humidity, O2, CO2, ethylene, etc. Thus, the real-time knowledge of the evolution of these parameters during the whole supply chain allows suppliers to prevent for food losses. This paper deeply describes the design of a flexible monitoring system with real-time communication to be used in the supply chain of perishable commodities, using Wi-Fi wireless communication as collaborative networks between different measurement points. Aspects such as consumption, performance and feasibility of the system are described in detail to check the adaptability of its use.

Research progress of packaging indicating materials for real-time monitoring of food quality

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 377-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danfei Liu ◽  
Ling Yang ◽  
Mi Shang ◽  
Yunfei Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Shelf Life ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Packaging Materials ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Fresh Food

The rapid development of cold-chain transportation necessitates consumers to present high requirements on safety and freshness of fresh food in recent years. The quality and taste of fresh food can be monitored and controlled through the intelligent packaging technologies and new food packaging materials such as time-temperature indicators (TTIs), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), biological composites and polymer nanocomposites. Based on different packaging materials, indicators and sensors are employed in food packaging for real-time detection of information about freshness, temperature, microbiological, and shelf life of products in the supply chain. Wide varieties of packaging materials are suitable for providing intelligent and smart properties for food packaging, such as oxygen scavenging capability, antimicrobial activity, and recording the thermal history. Due to the special properties of prepared materials, TTIs are used to point out the remaining shelf life of perishable products throughout the supply chain. Compared with others, they have the advantages of low cost, small size and convenient indication. Additionally, the TTIs can effectively solve food quality and safety problems caused by temperature fluctuation in supply chain. Since the irreversible color change of TTIs, the food safety situation would be shown intuitively. Currently, the TTIs were widely used in application of food packaging by providing safety information. However, the application is also accompanied with some deficiencies such as the accuracy of monitoring, migration of toxic substances, stability and expensive cost etc. This review will deeply discuss the preparation of various types of TTIs based on different package indicating materials with a particular emphasis on how to improve their accuracy and stability, control the migration of toxic substances and to develop new TTIs.

scholarly journals Packaging-Related Food Losses and Waste: An Overview of Drivers and Issues

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Wohner ◽  
Erik Pauer ◽  
Victoria Heinrich ◽  
Manfred Tacker
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Shelf Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Life Cycle Assessments ◽  
Protective Function ◽  
Food Losses

Packaging is often criticized as a symbol of today’s throwaway society, as it is mostly made of plastic, which is in itself quite controversial, and is usually used only once. However, as packaging’s main function is to protect its content and 30% of all food produced worldwide is lost or wasted along the supply chain, optimized packaging may be one of the solutions to reduce this staggering amount. Developing countries struggle with losses in the supply chain before food reaches the consumer. Here, appropriate packaging may help to protect food and prolong its shelf life so that it safely reaches these households. In developed countries, food tends to be wasted rather at the household’s level due to wasteful behavior. There, packaging may be one of the drivers due to inappropriate packaging sizes and packaging that is difficult to empty. When discussing the sustainability of packaging, its protective function is often neglected and only revolves around the type and amount of material used for production. In this review, drivers, issues, and implications of packaging-related food losses and waste (FLW) are discussed, as well as the implication for the implementation in life cycle assessments (LCA).

scholarly journals Risk Mitigation in a Meat Supply Chain with Options of Redirection

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8690
Author(s):  
David Bogataj ◽  
Domen Hudoklin ◽  
Marija Bogataj ◽  
Vlado Dimovski ◽  
Simon Colnar
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Shelf Life ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Time Delays ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Time To Failure ◽  
And Control

The aim of this paper is to present how a higher income can be achieved by developing a broader and more accurate planning framework and control perishability from stable to fork if it is possible to redirect the shipments in the case of increasing perishability dynamics or longer time delays on the roads. It also gives the answer to the question of how such a Supply Chain (SC) can be evaluated using Net Present Value (NPV) approach. The procedures include a real-time calculation and communication about the remaining shelf life (RSL) during transportation and other logistic manipulations from one chain node to another if the time to exceed the contractually stipulated Customer Remaining Shelf Life (CRSL) is distributed by known distribution. Planning and control on the skeleton of the extended material requirements planning (MRP) model are advised, where time delays and their impact on the CRSL can be easily calculated. The changes in the NPV at contractually stipulated CRSL are calculated dynamically in real-time. Smart devices, tracking temperature, humidity, and gas concentration enable such reports immediately after detecting a high probability that CRSL, as stipulated in a contract, will not be achieved, based on the known parameters of the exponential distribution of the remaining shelf life as a time to failure at each node of the graph. The model includes possibilities to deliver the meat to the local market or to the reverse logistics plants in the nodes of the remaining route, if the expected contractually stipulated CRSL becomes too high. On this way, shortening unnecessary routes further contributes to less pollution.

Dynamic Risk Assessment by Communicating Objects in Supply Chain of Chemicals

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-45
Author(s):  
Omar Gaci ◽  
Hervé Mathieu ◽  
Jean-Pierre Deutsch ◽  
Laurent Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
European Union ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Rfid Tag ◽  
Dynamic Risk ◽  
Dynamic Risk Assessment

In this paper, a wireless sensor network is deployed to improve the security of goods, environment and persons along a supply chain manipulating chemicals in the European Union. Pallets are equipped with a RFID tag and a set of sensors that monitor in real-time the environment state. By defining and monitoring constraints that must satisfy pallet environments, a real-time risk assessment is proposed. Then, sensors send accident risks in case of unusual values to a centralized software. Supply chain actors responsible for goods are thus contacted and in parallel emergency services are contacted to plan and organize their interventions.

scholarly journals Shelf life modelling for first-expired-first-out warehouse management

2014 ◽  
Vol 372 (2017) ◽  
pp. 20130306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten L. A. T. M. Hertog ◽  
Ismail Uysal ◽  
Ultan McCarthy ◽  
Bert M. Verlinden ◽  
Bart M. Nicolaï
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Shelf Life ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Search Algorithm ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Warehouse Management ◽  
Food Losses ◽  
The Cost

In the supply chain of perishable food products, large losses are incurred between farm and fork. Given the limited land resources and an ever-growing population, the food supply chain is faced with the challenge of increasing its handling efficiency and minimizing post-harvest food losses. Huge value can be added by optimizing warehouse management systems, taking into account the estimated remaining shelf life of the product, and matching it to the requirements of the subsequent part of the handling chain. This contribution focuses on how model approaches estimating quality changes and remaining shelf life can be combined in optimizing first-expired-first-out cold chain management strategies for perishable products. To this end, shelf-life-related performance indicators are used to introduce remaining shelf life and product quality in the cost function when optimizing the supply chain. A combinatorial exhaustive-search algorithm is shown to be feasible as the complexity of the optimization problem is sufficiently low for the size and properties of a typical commercial cold chain. The estimated shelf life distances for a particular batch can thus be taken as a guide to optimize logistics.

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