1. Cold Supply Chain Management

2. Members
1. Ashish Suvarna
2. Harshad Patil
3. Jaydeep Rawal
4. Moinnuddin Khan
5. Prasad Salve
6. Yagyati Chauhan

3. Current scenario of cold supply chain
• Currently, the Indian cold chain market is worth $3 billion.
• The market is expected to grow to $12.4 billion by the end
of 2015.
• Cumulative capacity of India is nearly 25 million tonnes,
resulting in loss of about 40% of the agri-produce post-
harvest.
• Uttar Pradesh has the maximum 1,579 numbers of cold
chains followed by West Bengal at the second place with
531 cold storages, Maharashtra 460 and Punjab 420.
• The current market demand is 10 times more than what we
have today.

4. Definition
Definition:
Cold chain is a logistic system that provides a series of
facilities for maintaining ideal storage conditions for
perishables from the point of origin to the point of
consumption.
• It extend and ensure the shelf life of products such as fresh
agricultural produce, seafood, frozen food, chemicals and
pharmaceutical drugs.
• Cold chain retains the longevity of product characteristics,
active ingredients, freshness, nutritive value.

5. Segments of cold supply chain
• Storage surface
Refrigerated warehouses for storage of temperature
sensitive products.
• Refrigerated Transportation
Reefer trucks, containers, ships and trains for transport of
temperature sensitive products.

6. Key activities
• Procurement
Involves activities such as aggregation, grading , sorting ,
pre‐cooling, packaging farms or manufacturers.
• Transportation
It includes all activities related to transportation of
produce to the market from farms or manufacturing
location.

7. Objective of cold supply chain
• Reduce costs
• Improve product integrity
• Increase customer satisfaction
• Reduce wastage and returns of expired stock

8. Industries using cold supply chain
Fruits & vegetables Floriculture Meat & marine products
Ice cream sector &
Pharmaceutical Products Dairy products
confectionery

9. Cold supply chain logistic process

10. Cold supply chain logistic process (continue...)
• Pre-cooling facilities
• Cold Storages
• Refrigerated Carriers
• Packaging
• Warehousing
• Information Management systems (Traceability and
Tracking etc.)

11. Players of cold chain
Snowman R.K. Foodland
Carriers Trans cold chain
Crystal Sensitech
Refcon Fresh &
Bulkani deep freeze Healthy(Concor)
Glacio cold chain Weber distribution
GATI (Kausar) Apollo Everest Kool
Solutions, And Many
more

12. Drivers of cold supply chain
• Growth in organized retail
• Shift towards horticultural crops
• Growth in processed food sector
• Demand from pharmaceutical sector
• Changing consumption pattern

13. The most common Temperature Standards
• Banana (13 °C)
• Chill (2 °C)
• Frozen (-18 °C)
• Deep Frozen (-29 °C)

14. The major cold chain technologies
1. Dry ice
• Solid carbon dioxide, is about -80°C and is capable of keeping a shipment frozen
for an extended period of time.
• It’s used for the shipping of pharmaceuticals, dangerous goods and foodstuffs.
• Dry ice does not melt, instead it sublimates when it comes in contact with air.
2. Gel packs
• Gel packs are used to Chilled products like Pharmaceutical and Medicinal
product shipments.
• Gel packs contain phase changing substances that can go from solid to liquid
and vice versa to control an environment at a temperature range between 2°C
and 8°C.
3. Eutectic plates
• The principle is similar to gel packs. Instead, plates are filled with a liquid and
can be reused many times.

15. The major cold chain technologies (continue...)
4. Liquid nitrogen
• Liquid nitrogen is an especially cold substance, of about -196°C.
• It is used to keep packages frozen over a long period of time.
• Its mainly used to transport biological cargo such as tissues and organs.
5. Quilts
• It’s an insulated pieces that are placed over or around freight to act as buffer in
temperature variations and to maintain the temperature relatively constant.
• Its used to keep Freight frozen for a longer time period.
• Quilts can also be used to keep temperature sensitive freight at room
temperature while outside conditions can substantially vary (e.g. during the
summer or the winter)
6. Reefers
• It’s a Generic name for a temperature controlled container, which can be a van,
small truck, a semi or a standard ISO container.
• Perishable or temperature sensitive items are carried in refrigerated containers
(called "reefers").

16. Challenges in cold supply chain
• Rising Real Estate Cost
• Location for Cold Storage
• Lack of Proper Infrastructure
• High Energy Cost
• Uneven Distribution of Capacity
• The cold storages present in India can cater to single
commodities only
• FDI Restrictions in Retail

17. Phases for cold chain shipment and logistics
• Shipment preparation
• Modal Choice
• Custom procedures
• The “Last Mile”
• Integrity and Quality assurance

18. THANK YOU