Packaging Logistics

Understanding and managing the economic and environmental impacts of packaging in supply chains

Henrik Pålsson

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780749481704
• eBook ISBN: 9780749481711
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Industrial Design

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.

INDEX

actors, packaging scorecards 35–37

after-sales service, environmental impacts 45, 47

analysis, concept innovation 145–150

apportionment

e-commerce 159–161

as a function of packaging 3–4, 6, 9

logistics 75–76

packaging scorecard 34–35

product waste 59

architectural innovation 140

archival data 144

authority, systems development 129–131, 135

averages, normalized 36–37

backward integration 14

see also vertical integration

barcodes 79

BCT see box compression testing

behaviour, environmental impacts 59

benchmarking 40

benefit sharing, ICT systems 84

box compression testing (BCT) 143

branding 29

bulk packaging

definition 6

see also industrial packaging

capital factors, industrial packaging 105

case studies

European jeans supply chains 51–52

global oven supply chains 52–53

Swedish automotive industry 108–110

UK food supply chains 48–51

CED see cumulative energy demand

centralized development methods 129–130, 131–133

challenges

developing countries 165–175

common 167–168

infrastructure 166–169

product-specific 32–33

characteristics

packaging waste 65–66

reusable packaging 87–90

typologies 29–30

chemical contamination 4

climate, developing countries 174

closed systems 11

reusable packaging 87–98, 100–101, 116, 123–126

characteristics 87–90

clothing, European jean supply chains 51–52

collaboration

developing countries 170–171

see also supply chain integration

collection systems, waste 69–70

common principles 131–132

common trade-offs ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• About the author
• 01 Defining packaging logistics
• 02 Packaging performance in supply chains
• 03 Packaging performance methodology
• 04 Managing the environmental impact of packaging logistics
• 05 Managing packaging waste
• 06 Managing ICT features of packaging
• 07 Reusable packaging systems
• 08 Industrial packaging evaluation
• 09 Decision support for industrial packaging
• 10 Organizing packaging development
• 11 Packaging innovation capability
• 12 Managing packaging logistics in e-commerce channels
• 13 Managing packaging logistics in developing countries
• Questions
• References
• Further reading
• Glossary
• Index
• Backcover