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Packaging Logistics. A Case Study in Dairy Sector

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No many companies give importance to the impact of packaging design for achieving logistic efficiency and sustainability in the supply chain. This paper sets out to illustrate how the adoption of “Packaging Logistics” approach makes it possible to obtain competitive advantages throughout the supply chain. To illustrate this statement, in this paper, not only the conceptual field of this concept is developed, but also its application, analysing a case study in dairy sector.

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  1. Grupo de Ingeniería de Organización (GIO), Escola de Enxeñería Industrial, Campus Lagoas-Marcosende, C/Maxwell, 36310, Vigo, Spain

    Jesús García Arca, J. Carlos Prado Prado & A. Trinidad González-Portela Garrido

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Correspondence to Jesús García Arca .

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  1. INSISOC, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    Cesáreo Hernández

  2. INSISOC, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    Adolfo López-Paredes

  3. INSISOC, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    José M. Pérez-Ríos

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García Arca, J., Prado Prado, J., González-Portela Garrido, A. (2014). Packaging Logistics. A Case Study in Dairy Sector. In: Hernández, C., López-Paredes, A., Pérez-Ríos, J. (eds) Managing Complexity. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04705-8_23

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