Cold Supply Chain Verdict Systems BV Aa lten (NL)

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Cold Supply Chain

Verdict Systems BVAalten (NL)


Monitoring Cold Supply Chain

Monitoring: 1. Field Conditions -> optimal production2. Storage Conditions -> optimise shelflife3. Transport Conditions -> avoid loss in shelflife

Focus on perishables during all stages from supplier till final customer.

Monitor Supply Chain to avoid products from contamination & degradation or other damage by too high or low temperature conditions.

• Supply Chain -> focus on partners and processes• Cold Chain -> focus on product and conditions


Cold Supply Chain

Products / industries:• Food: Fish, meat, • Agri / horticultural products: flowers, vegetables, fruit• Pharmaceutical products• Chemicals• Industry: anti - shock

Core of problem:• Safety -> direct damage• Liability-> medicines; food


Cold Supply Chain


Verdict ChainView™

Offering transparency in the Cold Chain / Supply Chain:

1. Enable users worldwide to monitor conditions at production- and storage sites or goods in transit;

2. Users can optimize conditions from distance;

3. Data may be used as input in models for: diseases, shelflife, weather forecast etc.


1 - Data collection on site

2 - Transfer data by GPRS / ADSL

3 - Databases on internet

4 - Webservices

5 – Models for shelflife, growth & diseases

6 – Weather forecast

Management Information System

7 – Filters & tools

Weather stations

Data loggers

Cold Chain Management

Wireless sensors


Verdict ChainView

Verdict – ChainView software: Collect temperature data during transit Direct communication of these data via

Internet Direct feed-back on every shipment Management tool to optimize Cold Chain


About the Flower Business Case


How to organise?


Flower Supply Chain

Grower Africa

Truck to airport

Freight forwarder

Air carrier to NL

Truck to FloraHollan

d

Auction FloraHollan

dTrading

Truck to shop

shop


Importance of Cold Chain

• Main objective: – Control temperature (1-4°C)– Control humidity (85 – 93% RH)

• Physical, physiological and micro-organisms factors

• Roses:– Temperature: limit respiration– Humidity: avoid germination of Botrytis

• Vaselife: promise of 7 days after 3 - 18 days transport

• Flowers: respiration increases temperature– 0°C: hours before temp increases with 1°– 20°C: minutes before temp increases with 1°


Vaselife determined by temperature

Respiration vs temp. Vaselife vs T-storage vaselife vs respiration


Vaselife vs temperature during transport

Other factors:• Ethylene, • Harvesting stage• Microorganisms

Temperature in all factors


Shipment on Sept. 2nd: cold, but slow


Shipment Sept. 8th: cold & quick


Variation in shipments


Quality Controlled Logistics

Growing Harvesting (i, ii)

Sorting/grading& Packing

(iii)

Storage (iv, v)

Transportation (iv, v)

Contextual Factors

Product· Stability of quality attributes· Initial variation in quality

attributes· Variation in quantity

Process· Degree of batch transformation· Degree of impact of processing

on quality· Degree of Separation from

other products

Chain · Degree of integration · Geographic dispersion of

location · Degree of logistic chain

structure

Market· Level of segmentation· Fluctuations in quality and

quantity of demand · Strictness of requirements on

quality, quantity, price, time and place

· Sophistication of product control· Sophistication monitoring of chain

conditions· Adequacy of quality procedures · Sophistication of identifying critical control

points

· Level of flexibility of inventory issuing system

· Level of coordination of logistics activities

· Appropriateness of produce/product handling in the chain

· Sophistication of predicting incidence of defects· Adequacy of information exchange · Flexibility of the delivery systems

Integration of quality control activities and logistics activities

Quality Control Logistics Control

1. Low incidence of defects

2. Low percentage of losses/wastagei) Maturity at harvest iii) Produce packing iv) Stacking of produce batchesii) Produce harvesting

v) Control of chain conditions (temperature and relative humidity)

Physical process and respective critical control points

Quality Controlled Logistcis


Monitor

Solve issues

Use data into

models

Improved

Supply Chain

Verdict ChainVie

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Product lines:


Structure

WebportalClient.verdict.eu

Cold Chain Monitoring

Verdict ChainView™

Dataloggers

Shelflife model

Environmental Monitoring

Verdict MeteoView™

Weather stations

Weather forecast

Disease models

Growth models

Crop protection models

3D-Monitoring (coldstores, horticulture)

Verdict StoreView™

Long range wireless sensors

Management, information and

services

Integrated in Webapplication

Maintenance

SAP integration

Consultancy

Soc. media

topic

software

hardware

models


Wireless sensors for 3D scan of an area

Wireless sensors (1 – 1000 m !) uploaded in database and local computer


Temperature differences in a modern Gerbera nursery using 100 wireless sensors, monitoring Temperature and Relative Humidity. Views at: 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 24

o’clock. Movie is available on request. (Source: Wageningen UR, 2008).

Conclusions:-Up to 4°C differences -Cold spots are persistent- Diseases start on cold

spots


Weather stations to monitor climate and predict diseases:

On golf course and in Finland (-23°C)

On website: (soil) temperature, PAR light


Dutch Fruit Board, Crop protection companies and growers:

On website: data are translated in disease predictions, to advice growers and other stakeholders


Thank you for your attention !

Verdict Systems BV

[email protected]

+31 - 543 – 479608

[email protected] www.verdict.eu

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Cold Supply Chain Verdict Systems BV Aa lten (NL)