Your go-to resource for improving knowledge and performance in your cold chain business.
Every cold chain is a system of interdependent parts. By adopting proven practices in process, training, and technology, businesses can achieve safer food, stronger service, and improved efficiency.
Drawing on years of frontline experience, Cold Logic provides practical solutions for operators seeking to improve compliance, reduce waste, and strengthen performance across Australia’s refrigerated supply chain.
A practical guidebook for cold chain professionals
If you work anywhere in and around the cold chain – whether you’re just starting out, trying to troubleshoot persistent failures, or have been in it for decades – you’ll get value from this book.
Cold Logic identifies the challenges that face all producers, manufacturers and logistics providers working in a country of vast distances and wide-ranging climatic conditions.
This compact guide provides a solid framework and practical solutions to help cold chain operators learn how to boost compliance, reduce the risk of failures, delays, and waste, and ensure their business maintains its good reputation.
The 5 Cold Logic Principles You'll Learn:
- When the variables in the chain are understood, processes can be developed to reduce refrigerated supply chain risks
- Cold chain performance can be strengthened and enhanced by targeted training
- The greatest risks to product quality in the cold chain are found in transport and the processes of loading and unloading
- A process driven by collaboration and transparency is essential to validate compliance, improve accountability, reduce waste and support sustainability
- Temperature monitoring at every point in the cold chain is the key to improved compliance and product safety
What’s Inside:
✅ Fix the weak links: transport, loading and unloading
✅ Actionable guidance you can apply today
✅ Real-world examples showing where things go wrong and how to fix them
✅ 4 jam-packed sections covering product and palletisation, processes, equipment, and technology
✅ Loads of diagrams, figures and tangible data to help you work towards industry best practices
Cold Logic covers the key pinch points in your cold chain.
Product and palletisation
Decisions about packaging type and pallet configuration can make or break the journey of refrigerated products.
Process
The quality of any cold chain is judged by its ability to prove that it does what it says it does. How does your process stack up?
Equipment
The secret to maximising thermal performance in refrigerated transport is design coupled with efficiency.
Technology
Sensors, GPS, smart alerts and digital devices are rewriting the rules of cold chain efficiency.
70 pages of easy-to-digest, actionable information to help your cold chain business reduce waste and save your profits from the dump.
A message from the Author, Adam Wade
My mission is to help businesses gain transparency, accountability and connectivity in their cold chains, and Cold Logic is the distillation of everything I’ve learnt on my journey.
After 24 years in corporate life with a major Australian food and beverage company, I stepped away from the day job to pursue something I’d been quietly building toward – capturing and sharing the lessons I’ve learned from the cold chain.
For close to a decade, I’d focused entirely on fixing refrigerated logistics problems, both on the ground and from a research and procedural standpoint. I helped teams prevent failures that cost time, money, trust and product, and I didn’t want to walk away and let that knowledge go to waste.
And I wasn’t ready to walk away from the cold chain or the sense of purpose I’d found in solving the very real problems affecting food quality, safety, and waste across Australia.
During my time as a founding director of the AFCCC, I had the privilege of working with passionate leaders trying to shift the needle across the industry. It exposed me to many opportunities for improvement in the Australian cold chain and provided me with knowledge available to few.
I realised the best way to share my knowledge and give back to the industry that gave me so much was through a book. That book would also form the foundation of my training and troubleshooting business, Keep It Cool Consulting.
Cold Logic is dedicated to the hardworking companies, independent providers and cold chain practitioners whose job it is to produce, store and deliver chilled or frozen products such as food, vaccines, medical supplies and horticultural produce to wholesale and retail points of distribution in Australia.
This book isn’t about telling you what to do. It’s about sharing what I’ve seen, what I’ve learned, and what might help move your business and the Australian cold chain forward. I hope you find value in it.
Adam Wade