Food Cold Chain Sustainability and Resiliency: Bibliometric Analysis and Emerging Trends

IPB University, Department of Agroindustry Technology, Bogor, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: thabedtholib@apps.ipb.ac.id

Abstract

The cold chain has a crucial sector that needs to maintain its sustainability and operational resilience. Along with the times, implementing sustainable and resilient cold chains is growing because it will bring positive effects. Some bibliometric analyses still focus on green, digital, and sustainable supply chains, and there is no detailed discussion of sustainable and resilient cold chains. This analysis aims to provide a bibliometric analysis of the sustainable and resilient cold chains so that the latest developments, trends, and research gaps that need to be resolved can be known. This research uses the bibliometric analysis method using Biblioshiny and Vosviewer using 128 scientific articles. The results show that this topic has an annual growth of 12.26%, and there are 3 interesting research clusters, namely 1) cold chain for food safety through RFID and IOT, 2) cold chain route optimization to improve sustainability through intelligent algorithms, and 3) cold chain model optimization to improve resilience. Based on the major themes obtained, there are various future research opportunities, including adopting smart technology, creating an inclusive cold chain, multiobjective cold chain evaluation, predictive models, decision support systems, early fraud prediction, and evaluating shelf-life commodities.