A cost-efficient method to optimize package size in emerging markets

Albán, Harol Mauricio Gámez; Cardona, Osman Camilo Soto; Mejía-Argueta, Christopher; Sarmiento, Alfonso T.

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2014.09.020

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“…The costs paid can sometimes be a driving factor, such as the cost of incinerating or disposing of waste directly in landfills (Dijkgraaf and Vollebergh, 2004); the cost of maintaining facilities and equipment (Frisch et al, 2021) is one of the factors that motivate logistics companies to operate reverse logistics, and the high cost of environmental management can attract the government participation in reverse logistics while prompting enterprises to choose reverse logistics (Wang et al, 2018;Chu et al, 2019;Liu W. et al, 2021). Reddy et al (2020) considered the impact of carbon tax in the design of the reverse logistics network, indicating that the implementation of reverse logistics also comes at a certain environmental cost; similarly, Liu et al (2014) pointed out that the process of remanufacturing also generates different levels of pollution, both providing new ideas for improving the overall environmental benefits; in terms of economic investment, the original construction of reverse logistics system requires a large amount of financial support (Abdulrahman et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2020), and also requires certain cost investment in the subsequent operation process, such as material consumption in the remanufacturing process (Lv et al, 2021;Ullah et al, 2021;Andersen et al, 2022) and the cost of packaging the waste (Gámez Albán et al, 2015;Meherishi et al, 2021).…”

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Study on the effective way to convert waste into resources—game analysis of reverse logistics implementation based on value chain

Zhang

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The environmental problems caused by excessive waste discharge are becoming more and more prominent, and how to deal with waste has become a problem that has to be done but is extremely costly. On the other hand, from a value chain perspective, waste has been focused on because of its potential value for conversion. Reverse logistics is an important means of turning waste into resources, solving environmental problems and promoting high-quality development, as well as an important reliance on enriching and improving the value chain system and further exploiting the value of products. However, the implementation of reverse logistics is a long-term, complex and dynamic process. Many factors need to be considered by the stakeholders when making decisions. With the help of the evolutionary game approach, this paper establishes a model based on the relationship between the government, enterprises (manufacturing enterprises) and logistics companies, and conducts simulation analysis to provide references for how the three parties implement or participate in reverse logistics. The results of the study show that: 1) The total amount of waste affects the evolutionary direction of enterprises’ decision choices, while the conversion rate of waste has a significant impact on the evolutionary trajectory (speed) of enterprises’ decision choices. 2) When the government’s regulation and punishment of the implementation of reverse logistics is greater, enterprises can choose to implement outsourcing reverse logistics to transfer the risk. 3) Logistics companies give certain discounts to attract enterprises to cooperate with them, but excessive discounts have different degrees of negative impact on the normal operation of both enterprises and logistics companies.

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Study on the effective way to convert waste into resources—game analysis of reverse logistics implementation based on value chain

Zhang

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…The search for methods to identify the best box has been approached in various ways in recent studies, although none have the comprehensive approach that is proposed here. Some authors have developed techniques and tools that seek to optimize box size or load units with quantitative approaches (heuristic techniques, metaheuristics and integer programming), although they have been taken out of the global logistics context and sidestepped any environmental impact [47][48][49][50]. Other publications have concentrated on partial views of the chain such as the production stage.…”

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Rethinking the Box for Sustainable Logistics

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Packaging design is one of the potential strategies for increasing logistics performance, not only from a cost reduction perspective, but also from a sustainable point of view. The deployment of a sustainable vision in packaging design should demand a holistic view of packaging, supply chain and product; this integrated vision is the main point of the “Sustainable Packaging Logistics” (SPL) approach. At a logistics level, a key link with the different stages of the supply chain is the secondary packaging, which most commonly takes the form of a corrugated cardboard box. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to develop a systematic and dynamic method that makes it possible to connect design decisions about the dimensions of that box with their impact on overall efficiency and sustainability of the supply chain. In order to develop this model, the impact on three different logistics systems is described. Those systems are palletizing, multimodal containers and parcel services. Likewise, in addition to proposing the theoretical model, the authors have tested it successfully in three different companies (with the three logistics systems mentioned) following the “action research” approach.

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“…The packaging design has a strategic impact on the efficiency of the supply chain (SC). Packaging links the entire supply chain and coordinates all participants in the process to give a flexible and effective response to customer needs in order to maximize satisfaction at optimal cost [1].…”

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Selection of Industrial Packaging System in Closed-loop Automotive Supply Chains

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Böröcz

2019

Acta Tech Jaur

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The corporate decisions in the field of packaging aim to find and determine the optimal packaging functions and expenses at the same time. One-way packaging is also used in the practice, but returnable packaging is more common in the outbound flow of the automotive engine manufacturer companies. In addition, it can happen that packaging devices originally designed for one way are used multiple times, because the technical condition of the packaging ensures the repeated usage and the other way around. Transport distance is an important aspect while choosing the right packaging system, but according to our investigation the ratio between the purchasing cost of a new device and the cost of backwards transportation should also influence this decision. Therefore, the scope of this paper is to give a model of the cost structure of returnable industrial packaging operating in a closed loop system. The total cost will be especially determined by the return ratio, cost of return transport and planned number of uses.

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A cost-efficient method to optimize package size in emerging markets

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Study on the effective way to convert waste into resources—game analysis of reverse logistics implementation based on value chain

Study on the effective way to convert waste into resources—game analysis of reverse logistics implementation based on value chain

Rethinking the Box for Sustainable Logistics

Selection of Industrial Packaging System in Closed-loop Automotive Supply Chains

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