An Improved Supplier Driven Packaging Design and Development Method for Supply Chain Efficiency

Sohrabpour, Vahid; Oghazi, Pejvak; Olsson, Annika

doi:10.1002/pts.2194

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“…Furthermore, a method for improving the existing Tetra Pak design and development is available. It is based on an expanded operational life cycle perspective that includes the entire supply chain (Sohrabpour et al, 2016). Emergy has also been used to analyze Brazilian packaging.…”

Section: Materials Design Governance Framework and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drivers, opportunities and barriers for a retailer in the pursuit of more sustainable packaging redesign

Gustavo

Pereira

Bond

et al. 2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Redesign can reduce the environmental impact generated by product packaging. The literature presents the elements to be observed in a packaging redesign, as well as the important role of the retailer in delivering more sustainable outcomes through consideration of product packaging. However, the literature is almost silent on the motivations, opportunities and barriers faced by the retailers that try to improve the packaging of the items sold in their stores. To fill this gap, a case study approach was adopted which investigated a global supermarket chain through interviews with senior management and participant observation. Findings suggest that the greatest motivation to the packaging redesign seems to be the economic gains (for the supermarket and its suppliers), which cogenerate environmental gains. The opportunities include the adjustment of the packaging size or type. Sizes could be increased when consumers buy more than one package during a single visit to the supermarket, or reduced when consumers discard part of a perishable product without consuming it (due to over-large packaging). Barriers result from commercial uncertainties associated with: how the new packaging will affect the sales of other items? How the new design will influence the number of times that a consumer visits the supermarket? And how the new design will affect the amount of money spent by the consumer on each visit? Further studies could investigate: how to mitigate these uncertainties? How to leverage sustainability based on the economic focus? How to identify redesign opportunities among thousands of sold items? And how to better convince the suppliers that reject the supermarket proposals? The understanding developed from the case study has facilitated the derivation of a number of propositions aiming to leverage sustainability gains from packaging redesign in practice.

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Section: Materials Design Governance Framework and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drivers, opportunities and barriers for a retailer in the pursuit of more sustainable packaging redesign

Gustavo

Pereira

Bond

et al. 2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…The economic dimension of sustainability is related to sales promotion, i.e., improving the differentiation capacity of certain features (tangible and intangible) of the products [16,17]. At the same time, packaging design can facilitate overall cost reductions for the supply chain, including logistics costs linked to handling, storage and, particularly, transport [7,9,18,19].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking the Box for Sustainable Logistics

et al. 2020

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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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“…It can also help achieve the supply chain's ultimate goal of feeding people by reducing food waste throughout the supply chain . Packaging design thus should be considered when building product supply chain …”

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“…18 Packaging design thus should be considered when building product supply chain. 19 The necessity for reducing food waste throughout the food supply chain has led to increase the need for developing a packaging industry focused on improving food quality and safety, prolonging shelf life, and improving the ability to control and manage products in stock. To that end, a variety of packaging technologies have been developed to serve food supply chains.…”

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confidence: 99%

State of the art of user packaging interaction (UPI)

Mumani

Stone

2018

Packag Technol Sci

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User packaging interaction (UPI) has evolved in packaging research because of its importance to users, manufacturers, and designers. A great deal of work addressing problems and suggesting potential improvements has been directed toward UPI. However, this work is not easily accessible to researchers as it lacks a cohesive structure. This paper serves as a platform for UPI researchers by presenting previous work UPI in an organized structure based on stages of interaction. Over 100 articles were reviewed to identify the scope of research in this area and then categorized according to stages of interaction. During the review of more articles, these stages of interaction were modified to ensure that they reflected all the reviewed articles. The review process resulted in the enumeration of the following stages: at point of purchase, checking out, handling, opening, and disposal. The related articles in each category are presented and discussed, and potential future work is presented. The articles were further categorized according to the age and gender of users under test, and packaging and product types considered. The review process has revealed different issues in the current research structure of UPI including the comprehensibility of the conducted research and the distribution of the reviewed articles. On the basis of this review, a model is proposed for improving the UPI by quantitatively evaluating the package design and affordances provided at each interaction stage.

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An Improved Supplier Driven Packaging Design and Development Method for Supply Chain Efficiency

Cited by 28 publications

References 28 publications

Drivers, opportunities and barriers for a retailer in the pursuit of more sustainable packaging redesign

Drivers, opportunities and barriers for a retailer in the pursuit of more sustainable packaging redesign

Rethinking the Box for Sustainable Logistics

State of the art of user packaging interaction (UPI)

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