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The Green Supply Chain Design and Marketing Strategy for Perishable Food Based on Temperature Control
- Source :
- Sustainability; Volume 9; Issue 9; Pages: 1511, Sustainability, Vol 9, Iss 9, p 1511 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2017.
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Abstract
- With the intensification of global warming and the levy of energy tax, more industries are paying attention to energy saving and reduction of carbon footprint. For the food industry, energy cost in the supply chain of perishable food is quite high because of cold-chain transport and storage. Therefore, the efficacies of cold chain management and inventory control are the key factors that increase the efficiency of food supply chain and make it more ecological. This research analyzes the degradation process of perishable food and determines the optimal temperature of the cold chain as well as the optimal price to maximize the channel profit. We prove that there is an optimal price with a certain temperature and develop an efficient search algorithm to find the optimal temperature. We also perform sensitivity analyses to test which parameters affect the channel profit significantly. Numerical experiments are conducted to illustrate the proposed models.
- Subjects :
- Food industry
Supply chain
Geography, Planning and Development
TJ807-830
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
Profit (economics)
supply chain model
0502 economics and business
Economics
Energy tax
GE1-350
Cold chain
temperature control
perishable food
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Inventory control
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
05 social sciences
marketing strategy
Environmental economics
Marketing strategy
Environmental sciences
Commerce
Carbon footprint
business
050203 business & management
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7ba9447442d91dc89f8ebadb5f5dc499