Cold Chain & Fresh Produce Logistics
Cold Chain: Case Studies
Worked examples showing how the module is used in practice.
The examples below are illustrative worked cases built from the module design. Named customer references are published only with written consent.
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Cold Chain
The problem: Needs the temperature trace available with every consignment.
What they do
- Calibrate and deploy monitoring
- Pre-cool and record field heat removal
- Store at the specified regime
- Load and begin the transit trace
What changes
- Consignments with an unbroken trace
- Excursions per thousand consignments
- Shelf life delivered against specification
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
In the field
Cold chain, as it actually looks
Photography from working UK holdings alongside the interface that records it. Every frame below is a commissioned slot: the brief is stated until the photograph is taken.
Cold Chain — a walkthrough
A working pass through cold chain: entering the record once, and watching it appear in the evidence pack, the calendar and the scheme application without being typed again.
- 0:00 What the module is for
- 0:48 Entering the record
- 2:05 Where it appears next
- 3:20 The evidence pack
Photography slots state their own brief until the shot is commissioned, so the layout never shifts when real images arrive.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
- 12
- Capabilities in this module
- 5
- Interactive tools
- 3
- Linked support schemes
- 5
- Data integrations
- 5
- Measures reported
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Consignments with an unbroken trace
- 02Excursions per thousand consignments
- 03Shelf life delivered against specification
- 04Claims and rejections
- 05Refrigeration energy per tonne
Traceability
The chain behind one batch
Assurance audits ask you to prove a chain you have already lived. The record is assembled as the work happens, so the audit pack is a printout rather than a fortnight of searching.
BATCH-91188A
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Grown
- Who
- Field parcel
- Evidence
- Cropping record, inputs applied with dates and rates
- Held in
- Field record
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Treated
- Who
- Spray operator
- Evidence
- Spray record with product authorisation and buffer compliance
- Held in
- Spray diary
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Harvested
- Who
- Combine or contractor
- Evidence
- Weighbridge ticket, moisture and specific weight
- Held in
- Weighbridge
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Stored
- Who
- Farm or central store
- Evidence
- Store temperature and drying record, bin allocation
- Held in
- Store record
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Hauled
- Who
- Haulier
- Evidence
- Consignment note and cleanliness declaration
- Held in
- Haulage
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Delivered
- Who
- Processor
- Evidence
- Intake spec, rejection reasons if any, and settlement
- Held in
- Processor
Take the record with you
Government cannot currently see, in real time, where its own farming budget is going. A scheme was closed overnight because the cap had been reached, and hundreds of millions of pounds went unspent over three years because replacement schemes were not ready. The evidence for change is government's own.
See Cold Chain running on your own holding
Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.
- Free tier available
- No card required
- Your data stays yours