Retailing Logistics and Fresh Food Packaging: Managing Change in the Supply Chain - Hardcover

Gustafsson, Kerstin; Jonson, Gunilla; Smith, David; Sparks, Leigh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0749446455 ISBN 13: 9780749446451

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2006

Synopsis

A useful guide to the changes in modern fresh food supply chains and packaging. Demonstrates how to simplify and reorganize supply chains with global case studies and photographs. The supply of fresh food is transforming as production evolves and consumers demand more. Availability of fresh food is vital to the success of modern retailers. Retailing Logistics and Fresh Food Packaging will help organizations and academics understand the latest changes in the industry.

About this title

About the Author:

Kerstin Gustafsson is Planning Manag

Gunilla J?nson is Professor in packaging logistics at Lund University, Sweden, Dean for the Engineering Faculty at Lund University and Adjunct Professor at the School of Packaging, Michigan State University.

David Smith is Principal Consultant for DLG Logistics, UK.

Leigh Sparks is Professor of Retail Studies at the Institute for Retail Studies, University of Stirling, UK.

Review:

"Our customers trust us to always offer a changing range of high quality, value for money products, every day in hundreds of stores across the length and breadth of the UK. Our store ordering, distribution and packaging solutions combine together in order to earn that trust. I see no end to the development of practical and innovative solutions to continually improve our performance and this book on fresh food packaging is a contribution to that process." David Potts, Retail and Logistics Director, Tesco "Practitioners and researchers in European logistics, retail and transport identify changes occurring in fresh food retail supply chains through the lens of packaging logistics." Reference and Research Book News "I see no end to the development of practical and innovative solutions to continually improve our performance and this book on fresh food packaging is a contribution to that process." David Potts, Retail and Logistics Director, Tesco PLC "The effects of well designed packaging on logistics efficiency, sales and suppliers are clearly explained with several varied case studies. This book will be useful as a reference for academics, as well as a valuable tool for operators. The effect of packaging on the whole supply chain is significant, and there are valuable lessons to be learned from the volume, not only with regard to packaging, but also in managing change within organisations." Logistics and Transport Focus "Analyzes state of the art packing logistics for fresh food retailing, drawing on primary research carried out in Europe."Journal of Economic Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0749446455
• ISBN 13: 9780749446451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228