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Cold chain management in the Swedish food industry.

Author(s) : ANGELOVA K., PETRACHKOVA I.

Type of monograph: Doctoral thesis

Summary

The purpose of this thesis is to explore how the food industry actors in Sweden are handling the temperature monitoring of perishable products and to analyze how an integrated approach, combining technological and managerial perspectives to the temperature monitoring solutions, can contribute to the achievement of the quality and safety goals of the perishable food supply chain.
A holistic multiple case study strategy is employed. The primary data was collected through eleven semi-structured qualitative interviews and was analyzed through a template analysis. The temperature monitoring solutions used in the cold chain management of the Swedish food industry are simple but satisfactory and cost-efficient. None has or considers real-time remote temperature monitoring and only one case company analyzes the temperature data.
The integrated approach is the alignment of advanced temperature monitoring solutions, cold chain logistics’ goals and users’ knowledge through collaboration between the food supply chain actors. This approach contributes to the minimization of food safety and quality risks and of food waste. Moreover, it leads to the increase in operational efficiency. Based on this, the framework for enhanced utilization of temperature monitoring solutions has been developed.

Details

  • Original title: Cold chain management in the Swedish food industry.
  • Record ID : 30016136
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Technology
  • Publication: Jönköping Business School, Jönköping University - Sweden/Sweden
  • Publication date: 2015/05
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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