As China's economy continues to grow and residents' standard of living improves, the demand for fresh produce has increased dramatically. Cold chain warehousing, as a key link to ensure the quality of fresh produce, is crucial for the fast and safe delivery of fresh produce to consumers. Cold chain logistics requires strict temperature-controlled storage, advanced warehousing technology and efficient logistics and distribution capabilities.

Modern logistics technology is the foundation of cold chain logistics, while information technology and automation technology help to improve the efficiency and accuracy of cold chain logistics and ensure product freshness and quality. Through the application of these technologies, full monitoring and temperature control of fresh products can be realized, providing consumers with safer and healthier products.

The Importance of Cold Chain Warehousing

Cold chain warehousing is a key component in ensuring the quality of food products and items. In cold chain logistics, the warehousing component is critical to maintaining the freshness and quality of products. Through precise temperature control and proper inventory management, cold chain warehousing ensures the quality of food, pharmaceuticals and other products, meets consumer demand and enhances the market competitiveness of enterprises.

Intelligent logistics warehousing is vital in the cold chain industry. Whether it is a constant temperature warehouse, cold storage or freezer, precise temperature control and inventory management are needed to ensure product quality. Intelligent logistics warehousing not only improves operational efficiency and reduces costs, but also meets consumer demand for quality and enhances enterprise competitiveness.

As the cold chain market continues to expand and consumers are increasingly concerned about product quality and safety, the need for intelligent logistics warehousing in the cold chain industry is becoming more and more prominent. Therefore, for cold chain logistics enterprises pursuing high quality, high efficiency and high competitiveness, intelligent logistics warehousing is a key link that must be emphasized and invested in.

Challenges of Cold Chain Warehousing

Variety of products, large number of SKUs and tight storage space:

Cold chain warehousing involves a wide variety of products, from food to pharmaceuticals, and each product has different specifications and batches, resulting in a huge number of SKUs.

With limited storage space, it is a huge challenge to rationally plan every inch of space to ensure that each product can be stored at the right temperature.

Products have a short shelf life and are subject to frequent wastage:

Cold chain products often have a short shelf life and need to be sold within a limited period of time, otherwise they will face the risk of expiration and wastage.

Frequent product wastage not only increases costs, but may also affect customer trust in product quality.

Traceability and tracking are difficult and safety risks are high:

The quality and safety of cold chain products are of paramount importance, but in a complex supply chain, product traceability and tracking become very difficult.

In case of quality problems or food safety incidents, it is difficult to find the source of the problem in a timely and accurate manner, which increases the safety risks and difficulties in handling.

Low sorting efficiency and high labor cost:

Facing a large number of SKUs and complex order structure, the traditional manual sorting method is inefficient and prone to errors.

With the rise of labor costs, cold chain warehouse operations relying on manual labor are facing increasing cost pressure.

Zoneyung's unique box robot solution is based on a modular configuration of shuttles, hoists, and racks that enables high-speed pickup and storage of goods on shuttles with ultra-high space utilization. Together with the elevator system, it can efficiently complete the goods in and out of the warehouse. In addition, Zoneyung's four-way shuttle is able to cope with the challenge of low temperatures, operating smoothly in ambient temperatures ranging from -25 °C to 50 °C. This intelligent solution not only saves labor, but also reduces the number of workers. This intelligent solution not only saves manpower, but also automates the inbound and outbound operations. Frozen products are effectively protected through the combination of AGV and conveyor loading and unloading. Zoneyung saves labor and improves the working environment compared to traditional cold storage.

Meanwhile, the self-developed WMS and WCS systems can help enterprises establish a depth-aware intelligent warehousing and logistics system, realize the access and handling of products in the cold storage/refrigerated area, and manage the whole process intelligently, so as to improve the efficiency of their warehousing operations and the level of lean warehousing management.

What can Zoneyung do for cold chain fresh produce companies?

1.Provide specialized automation system solutions covering in and out of the warehouse, conveying, packaging, sorting, weighing and so on.

2.With rich project experience in the cold chain industry, we plan the warehouse management process and realize cost reduction and efficiency.

3.Leading technology advantage of sorting system and PLC control system to realize the precise management of massive SKUs.

4. High-quality after-sales maintenance and big data management platform based on Zoneyung software system, worry-free operation and maintenance.

5. Get rid of the dependence on skilled labor, and be easy to handle in front of big promotion and massive orders.

In the future, intelligent cold chain logistics will bring more convenience and safety to people's life. Through continuous technological innovation and intelligent upgrading, the cold chain logistics industry will achieve more efficient, precise and reliable operation to ensure the quality and safety of fresh products. While satisfying people's pursuit of better life, smart cold chain logistics will also inject new impetus and vitality into the development of cold chain logistics industry.