Quality risks analysis of litchi in supply chain in Guangdong Province in China
Zeng, Zihao (2020)
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020092820761
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020092820761
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The cold chain improves the quality of litchi logistics, but it brought high technology investment costs to enterprises. Whether to adopt cold chain technology has become a decision-making problem for enterprises. Based on that, a litchi quality experiment was conducted to compare the changes in litchi logistics quality under normal temperature, cold chain, and partial cold chain logistics conditions firstly.
Then, by constructing a two-level supply chain cost-benefit model, the changes in the cost and optimal benefit were analyzed before and after the cold chain technology had been adopted, and obtained the boundary value of the technology investment cost that can increase the supply chain’s revenue. Finally, a calculation example to analyze and verify the theory effectiveness was utilized.
The research found that product quality changes significantly under different logistics conditions. Therefore, wholesale prices, retail prices and order quantities are all affected by product quality and preservation ratio factors. When the adoption cost of cold chain technology was within a certain range, the product price would drop, the order quantity would increase, and the revenue of circulation entities at all levels would increase; when the adoption cost exceeded a certain range, the product price would increase, then the order quantity would decrease, and finally all levels of circulations’ income decreased. In addition, the boundary value of technology investment cost that increases the income of wholesalers, retailers and the overall supply chain is the same. Decision-making basis was provided for litchi operating companies to invest in cold chain technology.
Then, by constructing a two-level supply chain cost-benefit model, the changes in the cost and optimal benefit were analyzed before and after the cold chain technology had been adopted, and obtained the boundary value of the technology investment cost that can increase the supply chain’s revenue. Finally, a calculation example to analyze and verify the theory effectiveness was utilized.
The research found that product quality changes significantly under different logistics conditions. Therefore, wholesale prices, retail prices and order quantities are all affected by product quality and preservation ratio factors. When the adoption cost of cold chain technology was within a certain range, the product price would drop, the order quantity would increase, and the revenue of circulation entities at all levels would increase; when the adoption cost exceeded a certain range, the product price would increase, then the order quantity would decrease, and finally all levels of circulations’ income decreased. In addition, the boundary value of technology investment cost that increases the income of wholesalers, retailers and the overall supply chain is the same. Decision-making basis was provided for litchi operating companies to invest in cold chain technology.