- Explores key characteristics of industrial and consumer packaging in a variety of companies, using examples and case studies from practice
- Examines the different ways that packaging adds value to logistics and supply chain, such as cost-effectiveness and packaging aesthetics
- Provides concrete tools, methods and guidelines that help reduce the cost of materials handling, and increase safe and efficient storage
- Looks at environmentally friendly and innovative packaging solutions which help promote sustainability and cut costs
- Examines the track and trace capability of packaging through ICT, the technology included in packaging to enable tracking through the supply chain
Packaging Logistics
Understanding and managing the economic and environmental impacts of packaging in supply chains
Understand the role of packaging along the supply chain and how its effective management can improve the performance of your company and minimise your costs.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9780749481704
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 234x157
248 pages
About the book
Packaging has a major impact on supply chain performance, as it affects all logistics activities in supply chains. Effective and efficient packaging can significantly improve the performance of companies by generating value and reducing costs and the negative environmental impacts in supply chains. Packaging Logistics uses a systems approach to examine all the essential roles of packaging in supply chains, from the purchasing of raw materials to the production and sale of finished products, as well as transport and distribution. It examines the strategic role of packaging and its operational importance, explains the theoretical basis, presents useful methodologies, tools and concepts, and provides decision support for packaging innovation. It provides several examples of the total environmental impacts of packaging: on logistics and transport efficiency, on product waste and from the packaging material.
Packaging Logistics covers essential topics such as one-way and reusable packaging, industrial and consumer packaging, ICT, end-of-life, environment, innovation, e-commerce, and future trends and challenges. This research-based and practical book takes the reader through every stage of packaging and relates it to supply chain and logistics, illustrated by many case studies.
About the authors
Henrik Pålsson is Associate Professor at Lund University, Sweden. He has conducted research and taught master's students within packaging logistics since 2004.
With the environmental problems posed by packaging waste now regularly in the news, the arrival of a book that puts packaging into a wider supply chain context is very welcome and timely. Henrik Pålsson, one of the main international specialists in the field of packaging logistics, has provided us with a comprehensive, well-researched and clearly written overview of the subject that should be widely read across the academic and practitioner communities.
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