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Manufacturing resilience via inventory management for domestic food waste
conference contribution
posted on 2015-11-12, 09:22 authored by Elliot WoolleyElliot Woolley, Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, R. Tseng, Shahin RahimifardShahin RahimifardThe ability to feed 9 billion people by 2050 will rely on processed foods being delivered through complex and dispersed international supply
chains. Currently as much as a third of all food grown is lost as waste at various points along existing supply chains, with roughly half of food
waste in the developed world occurring after purchase by the end consumer. For the long-term resilience of the food industry, and as holders of
critical information, manufacturers need to play a part in reducing this waste. Using a novel method of food waste categorization, this research
describes how the prevention of food waste for certain categories can be facilitated using a Smart Phone App that enables industrial inventory
management for the domestic environment, providing the consumer with supporting information about food condition and appropriate
preparation processes. Data availability issues and the benefits in terms of resource efficiency and consumer loyalty are discussed.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
13th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing 13th Global Conference on Sustainable ManufacturingCitation
WOOLLEY, E. ... et al., 2016. Manufacturing resilience via inventory management for domestic food waste. Procedia CIRP, 40, pp.372-377.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.Version
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2016Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY-NC-ND). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Presented at the 13th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing - Decoupling Growth from Resource Use.ISSN
2212-8271Publisher version
Language
- en