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Packaging Logistics
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Packaging Logistics

by Dr. Henrik Pålsson
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
6h 32m
English
Kogan Page
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Decision support for industrial packaging

This chapter discusses decision support and selection principles for industrial packaging. It also emphasizes the possibilities of such principles by illustrating their effects on costs and CO2 in a number of real-life examples. As described in the previous chapter, the economic and environmental performance of industrial packaging can be determined from five cost factors: and four CO2 factors packaging material, transport, material handling, waste handling and capital costs (only a cost factor). The combined effects of these five (four) factors, which show total supply chain costs and CO2, need to be considered in order to provide guidance and to formulate selection principles for industrial packaging. ...

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ISBN: 9780749481711