Cold Supply Chain Processes in a Fruit-and-Vegetable(5)

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Fig. 1. Interconnected electronic information PROCONET platform

4.1 Technical Objectives of the PROCONET Project

The technical objectives targeted by this project form a continuum from business requirements up to evaluation of alternatives:

1. To inventory systems and equipment being used, likely to be used or likely to be

developed for the Cold Supply Chain.

2. To design the necessary processes required for handling of loads in the

groupages storage node for transportation by the Cold Supply Chain.

3. To define a model for traceability and food safety of fruit-and-vegetable

products in the transport process of the cold supply chain.

4. To define a methodology which relates business decisions on transport

(inventory records, suppliers’ orders records and customers’ orders records) with the technical requirements of the technology used in the Cold Chain.

5. To Identify and parameterize those variables likely to be present in a cold supply

chain and their interaction with other agents in the chain.

6. To develop an initial traceability and food safety prototype for fruit-and-

vegetable products in the logistic processes of the cold supply chain.

7. To develop a second transport safety prototype, based on INCOTERMS and

demonstrate the feasibility of an electronic CMR.

8. To integrate both prototypes in such a way that a small transport business may

evolve into a logistics company.

9. To assess and evaluate the developed prototypes.

10. To diffuse the conclusions of the completed prototyping work.