Analysis of the demand status and forecast of food cold chain in Beijing

<p><strong><em>Purpose:</em></strong> Food cold chain is very important for ensuring food safety and decreasing the loss in the supply process. It is also benefit for the citizen, because cold chain could promise the food safety and the demand of the special cold food....

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Main Authors: Hongjie Lan, Yongbin Tian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: OmniaScience 2013-03-01
Series:Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
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Online Access:http://www.jiem.org/index.php/jiem/article/view/675
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Yongbin Tian
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Yongbin Tian
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description <p><strong><em>Purpose:</em></strong> Food cold chain is very important for ensuring food safety and decreasing the loss in the supply process. It is also benefit for the citizen, because cold chain could promise the food safety and the demand of the special cold food. Beijing, as the capital, the level of food chain is high, compared to other cities, and analysis of the demand status and forecast of food cold chain in Beijing is necessary, it could direct the scientific and health development of cold chain all over our country.</p> <p><strong><em>Design/methodology/approach:</em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong>In this paper, in accordance with the investigation, we analysis the demand status of food cold chain from two aspects, then according to the status, we forecast the demand of refrigerated cars and warehouse for food cold chain in Beijing with the multivariate statistics.</p> <p><strong><em>Findings:</em></strong> From the analysis of the paper, we can see that the need of cold chain logistics grows rapidly, but most consumers are lack of the awareness of the importance of the cold chain and many companies cannot bear the huge investment, it make the gap of the resources of cold chain logistics large and cannot meet the normal need of cold chain logistics in Beijing.</p> <p><strong><em>Originality/value:</em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong>The result of this paper could support the relative enterprise to run business in terms of the refrigerated car and warehouse.</p><p class="Keywords"> </p>
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spelling doaj.art-52f61b03eeab4b348f61fa295a0ac2072022-12-22T02:57:42ZengOmniaScienceJournal of Industrial Engineering and Management2013-84232013-09532013-03-016134635510.3926/jiem.675174Analysis of the demand status and forecast of food cold chain in BeijingHongjie Lan0Yongbin Tian1School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong UniversitySchool of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University<p><strong><em>Purpose:</em></strong> Food cold chain is very important for ensuring food safety and decreasing the loss in the supply process. It is also benefit for the citizen, because cold chain could promise the food safety and the demand of the special cold food. Beijing, as the capital, the level of food chain is high, compared to other cities, and analysis of the demand status and forecast of food cold chain in Beijing is necessary, it could direct the scientific and health development of cold chain all over our country.</p> <p><strong><em>Design/methodology/approach:</em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong>In this paper, in accordance with the investigation, we analysis the demand status of food cold chain from two aspects, then according to the status, we forecast the demand of refrigerated cars and warehouse for food cold chain in Beijing with the multivariate statistics.</p> <p><strong><em>Findings:</em></strong> From the analysis of the paper, we can see that the need of cold chain logistics grows rapidly, but most consumers are lack of the awareness of the importance of the cold chain and many companies cannot bear the huge investment, it make the gap of the resources of cold chain logistics large and cannot meet the normal need of cold chain logistics in Beijing.</p> <p><strong><em>Originality/value:</em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong>The result of this paper could support the relative enterprise to run business in terms of the refrigerated car and warehouse.</p><p class="Keywords"> </p>http://www.jiem.org/index.php/jiem/article/view/675food cold chain, demand forecast, refrigerated cars, refrigerated warehouse
spellingShingle Hongjie Lan
Yongbin Tian
Analysis of the demand status and forecast of food cold chain in Beijing
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
food cold chain, demand forecast, refrigerated cars, refrigerated warehouse
title Analysis of the demand status and forecast of food cold chain in Beijing
title_full Analysis of the demand status and forecast of food cold chain in Beijing
title_fullStr Analysis of the demand status and forecast of food cold chain in Beijing
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of the demand status and forecast of food cold chain in Beijing
title_short Analysis of the demand status and forecast of food cold chain in Beijing
title_sort analysis of the demand status and forecast of food cold chain in beijing
topic food cold chain, demand forecast, refrigerated cars, refrigerated warehouse
url http://www.jiem.org/index.php/jiem/article/view/675
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