Suzhou Vanguard Supermarket Fresh Cold Chain Logistics

"Bread is the staff of life", Food is a necessity for human survival, the china’s eating habits give first place to fresh food, so the fresh food supply is a significant part of living consumption. Chain supermarket is the major channel to get fresh food in the medi-um and large city,the fresh food sales account for20percent of total sales in chain super market. There are several features about fresh food, time-critical shelf lives, perishables, not suitable for storage and transportation, etc. So keeping fresh food in cold condition du-ring transportation. From food producing to sales form a complete cold-chain. The devel-opment of cold-chain is crucial to the quality of fresh food and advancing service for cust-omers in domestic supermarket chain.This article regards CR Vanguard of Suzhou as the object of research, base on cold-ch ain logistics of CR Vanguard, discuss purchasing mode, distribution center design,distribu-tion route,cold chain operation and logistics information system.The article targets on fr-esh food cold-chain logistics of CR Vanguard of Suzhou put forward intensive pur-chase and purchase DMO(Direct Mode Operate); Using SLP to layout of fresh food distribution centre and time windows to distribution routing; The regulations are m-ade to standard of cold-chain operations and system platforms. To improve manage-ment of cold-chain logistics of fresh food, meanwhile providing reference for food i-ndustry, businesses and government about management of fresh food cold-chain lo-gistical.