Increasing government regulation and the demand from customers for continuously available high quality food products are primary drivers of cold chain integration. The complexity of food chains caused by international sourcing and increasing diversity of products with different requirements regarding temperature and handling dramatically increases the challenges of maintaining high performance cold chains. This course develops principles, practices, and tools required to assess and continuously improve cold chains and assure that government regulations and customer expectations are met. We strongly recommend that the Cold Chain Management course is taken prior to the Cold Chain Assessment and Audit or Cold Chain Integration courses.

• Cold chain operations managers and engineers
• Transporters and Refrigerated transportation managers
• Retailers
• Processors/Shippers
• Distributors
• Brokers
• Government agency representatives dealing with, or responsible for, perishable foods
• Cold chain consultants

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the basics of cold chain integration
• Assess the performance of cold chains and the value of integration
• Utilize process modeling for understanding and improving cold chain performance
• Develop strategies for cold chain integration
• Identify areas for integration improvement
• Determine the need and value for new technology for measuring performance

• Cold Chain Integration Fundamentals
• The Economic Value of Cold Chain Integration
• Measuring the Performance of Cold Chains
• Strategy and Value for Process Modeling
• Cold Chain network design
• Strategies for Cold Chain Integration
• The Role of Technology in Cold Chain Integration
• Information Requirements for Integration and Tracing
• Using Process Models as the Basis for Integration, Control and Improvement
• Cold Chain Integration Trends and Innovation
• Using Process Models to Understand the Basic Components, Activities, Resources, Constraints, Controllable vs Non-Controllable Factors, Risk points, Gaps and Integration issues.

Student will each be provided a course notebook.

• Amar Ramudhin
• Don Ratliff

This course is required for the Cold Chain Management Certificate.

This course may be applied toward the Supply Chain & Logistics Certificate.