An article to show you: how good is the digital cold chain?

If we were to ask what the cold chain industry is most worried about? It is inevitable that the cold chain is not cold, fresh food is not fresh, which is the core pain point of the cold chain industry. So how to solve this problem? The digital cold chain, which combines cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, blockchain and artificial intelligence, has brought light to the cold chain industry.

What is digital cold chain? We can understand it as the trend of using these technologies to serve the cold chain logistics industry under the conditions of informatization and Internet+, as a series of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence,cold chain big data, cloud computing, and so on, are gradually sinking into the industry and the industry.

Based on this, the benefits of cold chain digitization basically encompasses the following aspects, which we illustrate by combining various major aspects of cold storage management. Follow the technology, let's take a look at the digital cold chain in the end how good?

1. Efficient operation

Through the application of digitalization, the staff can identify multiple goods at a time, which makes the daily storage inventory, in and out of the warehouse efficiency has been greatly improved, and can realize the rapid checking and finding goods.cold warehouse At the same time, goods can be automatically sensed when entering and exiting, and basically no missed readings, can be quickly and accurately data collection and processing, realizing the standardization and efficient operation of the cold storage.

In the final process of the review and sorting link, it is necessary to settle the final express fee by weight and volume, so it becomes very important to obtain barcode, volume and weight information quickly. We utilize intelligent hardware to obtain the information within 3 seconds, and the efficiency can be increased by 200% compared with the traditional way.

2. Intelligent management

For large cold storage is particularly important, large cold storage is often divided into a number of numbered bins, the traditional cold storage management can only rely on human memory arrangements and management, such as the first warehouse used how much space, the second warehouse used how much space.

Due to too many bins, the administrator often can only remember which bin is stocked, which is not stocked, and so on, when new goods into the warehouse, are first arranged to zero warehouse, which results in most of the goods that can be placed in the number one warehouse to zero warehouse, and the next batch of a large number of goods arrived, there is no place to put it, which results in the lack of orders.

If you use the digital cold chain management system, you can all cold storage system automatically record, monitor the cold storage warehouse owner goods, both accurate and detailed, and since the movable distinction has been occupied / unoccupied warehouse space. Such digital management can enhance the original cold storage space utilization rate of 30%.

Another example, in the past, we have only paid attention to how to avoid the return journey of refrigerated trucks empty, ignoring the maximum space utilization of cold storage. Nowadays, through the digital management, to solve the problem of cold storage space idle. Cold storage managers only need to mouse point a few times, you can understand the package warehouse time and not rented out the situation of the warehouse, so that according to the package warehouse time reasonable arrangements for the owner of the inventory time, but also to facilitate the owner of the appointment of the storage time, staggered use of the warehouse and the board space, so that the cold storage warehouse board space are to play value.

Through the application of digital cold chain technology, if a refrigerated truck dares to be lazy and does not turn on the refrigeration, the data record will note down the "bad deeds" and immediately respond to the owner's cell phone to ensure that "a cold to the end". In the TMS transportation management system, it can help drivers optimize their routes, and at the same time, make the waybill match with the actual goods more accurately, so as to realize the transparency and traceability of the whole distribution process.

Through the cell phone can grasp the temperature and humidity of the goods in the cold storage, the temperature and time of delivery transit, these have been realized through big data and the Internet of Things; through simple operation, can let the cold storage operation, palletizing and unloading, delivery to the refrigerated truck, the realization of the cold storage warehousing operation of artificial intelligence, but also in the continuous practice of exploration.

3.Scientific decision-making

For cold storage warehouse operators, cold storage of goods if the market is not open, the goods are backlogged for a long time, it is bound to be a great loss. You should know, but where the cold storage of things, there is a storage period, a few days to a few years, the period of time, "goods than yesterday's yellow flowers", you want to sell can not be sold. In this regard, the digital cold chain can play a role.

In the digital cold chain, because the big data will not lie, all the cold chain in the figures will be associated with data corroboration, false data at a glance. At the same time, it can also help you predict what products will sell well in the market in the coming period, and carry out warehousing and scheduling according to the market demand, so as to reduce the loss and backlog of goods.

The above is not a fantasy, many functions have been initially applied to cold storage management and cold chain transportation.