The Improvement of Packaging Logistics. Cost Cutting and Value Enhancing

Dossier / Travail de Séminaire , 2015 , 15 Pages , Note: 1,3

Gestion d'entreprise - Achats, Production, Logistique

Today´s business environment of tight competitiveness forces companies to cut cost whenever possible in order to maintain or increase profits. Most companies focus their cost-cutting effort on the production process. Therefore the potential of cost savings from an efficient supply chain is underestimated. Although, regarding worldwide service dispersion and increasing environmental concerns, improvement of logistics would be a valuable starting point for cost and pollution relief.

In this paper, the cost cutting and value enhancing potential of an efficient supply chain is discussed in detail, with a special focus on the integral element Packaging Logistics (PL).
The analysis is structured alongside given research questions, which will be sequentially addressed.

Table of contents

List of appendices

List of abbreviations

1 Introduction

2 Analysis
2.1 The process of PL within the whole logistics chain
2.2 Relevant aspects of the IKEA Packaging Concept
2.3 Ways to improve PL before launching a product and related benefits
2.4 Possibilities to make top management aware of the importance of logistics
2.5 Industry sectors besides retail in which PL is of special strategic relevance
2.6 Further ways to increase the performance of logistics in a firm with respect to the top management´s influence

3 Conclusion

4 Appendix

5 Bibliography

• Université: HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management (Lehrstuhl Logistik)
• Note: 1,3
• Année de publication: 2015
• Pages: 15
• N° de catalogue: V300100
• ISBN (ebook): 9783656978046
• ISBN (Livre): 9783656978053
• Langue: anglais
• mots-clé: improvement, packaging, logistics, cost, cutting, value, enhancing