2011 Sustainable Packaging Symposium

Sustainable Packaging and Supply Chain Design – Understanding Cost and Emissions Impact of Packaging Decisions

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- How packaging design decisions impact upstream and downstream emissions, costs, and service.

- How to model CO2 emissions for packaging and sourcing decisions, and their impact on costs.

- Evaluating postponement strategies to understand tradeoffs among multiple supply chain cost levers.

- Incorporating facility source emission factors from EPA and other benchmarks sources to model facility and transportation mode carbon footprint profiles.