Cold-Chain Logistics Route Optimization for Perishable Goods

Plan, generate and optimize cold-chain routes with intelligent capacity planning that keeps shipments safe, compliant, and right on schedule.

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Addressing Operational Complexities with Intelligent Routing

Multi Dimensional Capacity Planning

Optimize fleet capacity with multi-compartment vehicles that support frozen, chilled, and dry goods simultaneously,  enabling smarter utilization of space, temperature zones, and load types within a single trip.

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Time and Service Constraint Planning

Incorporate service times, loading & unloading durations, and strict delivery windows into route plans to ensure on-time performance and temperature compliance across every stop.

Dynamic Route Optimization

Leverage real-time traffic data to continuously re-optimize routes, ensuring accurate ETAs and minimizing delays, spoilage, and wastage.

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Live Tracking and Monitoring

Gain end-to-end visibility into vehicle routes and dwell times, allowing proactive intervention to prevent temperature excursions and ensure compliance.

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Industry Specific Use Cases

Food and Beverage Supply Chains

Enhance your food and beverage logistics by optimizing routes and assigning the right vehicles, capacities, and configurations for every order.

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Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Logistics

Ensure safe, compliant pharma logistics with intelligent, temperature-aware routing that maintains product integrity across every mile.

Grocery & Q-Commerce

Accelerate grocery and quick-commerce deliveries with optimized routes that balance freshness, speed, and cost , even during demand surges.

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NextBillion.ai APIs integrate with all logistics applications

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Frequently asked questions

Features

Cold chain routing is the planning and optimization of routes for temperature-sensitive goods like food, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. It ensures shipments stay within safe temperature ranges by factoring in vehicle compartments, dwell times, and compliance rules, helping reduce spoilage and maintain product integrity.

Multi-dimensional capacity planning ensures that every vehicle’s refrigerated and non-refrigerated zones are utilized optimally. It allows carriers to transport frozen, chilled, and ambient goods in separate temperature zones within the same vehicle, reducing empty space and maximizing load efficiency.

Our system supports multi-compartment refrigerated trucks that keep frozen, chilled, and dry goods in distinct temperature environments. This prevents cross-contamination between items like raw meat, produce, and packaged foods , ensuring safety and freshness across every shipment.

The routing engine factors in loading/unloading durations, time windows, and maximum route durations while optimizing each delivery route. This ensures compliance with delivery SLAs while maintaining temperature stability throughout the journey.

By leveraging live traffic, weather, and road conditions, the system continuously re-optimizes routes to ensure accurate ETAs and minimal idle time. This reduces transit delays, helping maintain temperature compliance and minimize product spoilage.

Yes. The platform provides real-time route visibility, enabling you to track vehicle location, route adherence, and temperature zone consistency, ensuring shipments remain compliant and on schedule.

Speed, Security & Scalability

Our AI-driven routing engine processes thousands of location and vehicle constraints in parallel, delivering optimized multi-stop routes within seconds, even for large fleets or complex cold-chain operations.

The system continuously monitors traffic, road conditions, and temperature-sensitive constraints. When disruptions occur, it instantly re-optimizes routes to maintain ETAs and cold-chain integrity.

All APIs are end-to-end encrypted and hosted on secure cloud infrastructure. Access is managed via token-based authentication and role-based controls, ensuring compliance with GDPR and enterprise data standards.

Yes. The solution is cloud-native and horizontally scalable, supporting thousands of vehicles, routes, and API calls without latency, whether you’re operating regionally or globally.

NextBillion.ai’s modular APIs integrate seamlessly with TMS, ERP, and telematics systems, allowing you to scale capabilities without overhauling your current infrastructure.

Testing and Deployment

NextBillion.ai’s APIs are plug-and-play and integrate seamlessly with existing TMS, ERP, or fleet platforms , enabling smooth onboarding without disrupting live operations.

Yes. A sandbox environment allows you to simulate routes, vehicles, and constraints safely before production rollout, ensuring your configurations, rules, and integrations perform as expected.

Deployment is phased and flexible, starting with pilot fleets or select regions, followed by gradual scaling. Our customer success team assists with configuration, data migration, and live validation.

We provide 24×7 technical support, monitoring dashboards, and detailed API logs, helping your teams troubleshoot quickly and maintain consistent performance across large-scale deployments.

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