- Storage: products such as insulated containers, vaccine and medical refrigerators and freezers, refrigerants, cold rooms/chillers are key to effective cold storage. Cold chain management starts with cold chain storage equipment and facilities.
- Packaging: when products leave storage facilities, cold packaging is vital to maintaining and monitoring temperature and security. Products such as cold chain parcel and pallet systems, refrigerant bricks, gel packs, gel bottles, and insulated containers and envelopes keep your products cold, improve transportation efficiencies, and prevent damage, waste, and loss.
- Tracking: data loggers and temperature indicators give companies, shippers, and their customers real-time temperature and GPS monitoring and tracking. This information is key to maintaining the cold chain, ensuring product quality and integrity.
- Transportation: the global supply chain means temperature-sensitive goods and products are moved around the world in a range of ways. Specialized cold chain vehicles such as refrigerated vehicles and reefer containers keep the cold supply chain moving across waterways, in the air, and along global/local roads and highways.
- Customs clearance: customs paperwork is a vital step in the cold supply chain, ensuring products can be transported and delivered quickly and efficiently. A failure to comply with customs clearance requirements can result in delays – causing product loss, risks to product quality, and additional expenses for storage, transport, and delivery.
- Product management: shipping supplies such as specialized cold parcels and pallets, insulated envelopes and containers and warehouse best practices with autonomous mobile robots and forklifts mean your products are moved and handled securely and safely within the cold chain.
- Delivery: ultimately delivering temperature-sensitive products and goods to your B2B and B2C customers depends on a finely tuned and streamlined delivery process. The cold chain management process includes documentation review, internal handling best practices, risk management, and securing compliant warehouse, storage, and display systems.