Background: Sustainability in food supply chains is desired for production, logistics, and waste management. However, food supply chains (SCs) have complex systems that differ from other SCs. Managing such complexities is challenging for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) due to their...

Along the food supply chains (FSC), energy plays a strategic role, being fundamental to guarantee quality and influential in the determination of economic values. Moreover, the same type of product may flow through chains differing in energy requirement, processing equipment and time spent in...

Paper discusses the parameters of preservation of perishable goods in cold logistic chains. The key parameters are the intensity of deterioration of goods, the conservation effect of perishable goods and the delay of activation of the conservation effect. The values of these parameters tell us...