Too fast to bother Integrity, instrumentality, and externality factors for early sustainable design implementation in the fast-moving-consumer-goods sector

Park, Curie; Charnley, Fiona; Bolton, Simon; Evans, Steve

doi:10.1504/jdr.2020.10032442

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“…They include pre‐packaged food and beverages, health and beauty items, household cleaning products, pet care items, and many others (Khan and Yu, 2019). For the manufacturer, FMCGs are products with high volume demand, high inventory turnover, and low margins (Park, 2015). These characteristics of FMCGs are aligned with a low‐cost strategy for distribution network design.…”

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Fill‐rate service level constrained distribution network design

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Brotcorne

et al. 2023

Int Trans Operational Res

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The design of distribution networks that simultaneously consider location and inventory decisions seeks to balance costs and product availability. The most commonly observed measure of product availability in practical settings is the fill‐rate service level. However, the optimal design of a distribution network that considers the fill rate to control shortages of fast‐moving consumer goods (FMCG) is considered intractable and has only been addressed by heuristic methods. This paper addresses the optimal design of a distribution network for FMCG able to provide high fill‐rate service level under a continuous review policy. Considering the exact formulation for the provided fill rate, we formulated a joint location–inventory model with fill‐rate service level constraints as a convex mixed integer nonlinear problem for which a novel decomposition‐based outer approximation algorithm is proposed. Numerical experiments have shown that our solution approach provides good‐quality solutions that are on average 0.15% and, at worst, 2.2% from the optimal solution.

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Fill‐rate service level constrained distribution network design

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Brotcorne

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Int Trans Operational Res

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“…Conventional explanations of CE have categorized bio‐based materials as being inherently “consumable” (MacArthur, 2013), alongside other “consumable” products that are dissipative, disposable, and short‐lived (Willskytt, 2021). Some research has begun to explore general consumables (Böckin et al., 2020; Kuzmina et al., 2019; Park, 2015; Stewart & Niero, 2018) and consumable bio‐based products (Mendoza et al., 2019; Ozola et al., 2019) within CE. Similarly, there has been exploration of CE opportunities for myriad durable products within the CE (Nasr et al., 2018; Stahel, 1982).…”

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Evaluating the cascading‐use of wood furniture: How value‐retention processes can contribute to material efficiency and circularity

Russell

Huff

Haviarová

2022

J of Industrial Ecology

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As utilized technical products, durable wood furniture plays an important role in a future circular economy (CE). However, contemporary CE literature predominantly focuses on wood's biochemical properties and its potential as a consumable material within the bio‐cycle. This perspective prevents meaningful consideration of CE strategies for the wood products sector, particularly for value‐retention processes (VRPs), including reuse, repair, and refurbishment. We adapt and apply the VRP model introduced by the UN International Resource Panel (IRP) to wood furniture products to quantify select environmental benefits made possible through cascading‐use, via VRPs (vs. new manufacturing). Unlike traditional life cycle assessment (LCA), this model accounts for impacts incurred and avoided through product life‐extension and VRPs, relative to conventional systems of new manufacturing, disposal, and replacement. Three case studies of wood‐based chairs are conducted to demonstrate this new application of the VRP model to compare the relative environmental impacts associated with wood furniture that is diverted to cascading‐use, prior to recycling. In collaboration with industry partners, new material requirements (kg/unit), energy requirements (kWh/unit), emissions (kg CO2‐e./unit), and waste generation (kg/unit) were calculated for newly manufactured chairs (OEM new) and subsequent cascading‐use via reuse, repair, and refurbishment. The differing degrees of environmental impact avoidance and material efficiency are presented for each case study product and VRP, to provoke discussion and future research regarding the effective and optimal utilization of technical, durable wooden furniture within a CE.

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Too fast to bother Integrity, instrumentality, and externality factors for early sustainable design implementation in the fast-moving-consumer-goods sector

Cited by 2 publications

References 46 publications

Fill‐rate service level constrained distribution network design

Fill‐rate service level constrained distribution network design

Evaluating the cascading‐use of wood furniture: How value‐retention processes can contribute to material efficiency and circularity

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