At this juncture, we highlight the contributions this paper brings to the existing cold supply chain literature. First, we address the problem where the freezers’ usage is optimized over a cycle comprised of more than one period, where the planning horizon is assumed to be infinite. This treatment better resembles reality and is in contrast to the work of Bozorgi et al. (2014) where they consider only one time period during which the operational status of the freezer units does not change (whether on or off).