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Material Flow Management

Improving Cost Efficiency and Environmental Performance

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Authors:
  1. Kristin Hinz
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Editors:
  1. Bernd Wagner

    1. Centre for Further Training and Knowledge Transfer, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

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  2. Stefan Enzler

    1. imu Augsburg GmbH & Co. KG, Augsburg, Germany

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Stefan Enzler
    Pages 1-6

  3. Aspects of Material Flow Management

    • Stefan Enzler
    Pages 7-19

  4. Computer Aided Resource Efficiency Accounting

    • Timo Busch, Severin Beucker, Andreas Müller
    Pages 21-55

  5. Measuring Environmental Performance with EPM-KOMPAS Software Tool — Material Flow Analyses, Environmental Assessment and Success Control

    • Edeltraud Günther, Susann Kaulich
    Pages 57-90

  6. Integrated Controlling Based on Material and Energy Flow Analysis — A Case Study in Foundry Industries

    • Christoph Lange, André Kuchenbuch
    Pages 91-129

  7. Environmental Accounting Instruments: Implementation & Continuous Use — Concepts for the Application of Input-Output Balance, Environmental Performance Indicators and Flow Cost Accounting

    • Claus Lang-Koetz, Thomas Loew, Severin Beucker, Michael Steinfeldt, Uwe Horstmann, Till Sieghart
    Pages 131-157

  8. Efficient Closure of Material and Component Loops — Substance Flow Oriented Supply Chain Management

    • Martin Ploog, Wiebke Stölting, Marcus Schröter, Thomas Spengler, Christoph Herrmann, René Graf
    Pages 159-195

  9. Developments in Material Flow Management: Outlook and Perspectives

    • Bernd Wagner, Stefan Enzler
    Pages 197-201

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 203-206
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About this book

Material flow management gets right to the core of industrial production and its environmental impact. Basically, material flows are invariably at the nucleus of industrial production. Ecological effects are initially caused by materials: consumption and entropy of scarce resources as well as emissions resulting from the production and use of products and consumer goods. It is only during recent years that the eco-efficient optimisation of these material flows, which aims at reducing costs while simultaneously de­ creasing environmental impact, has become an explicit objective of both practical and scientific activities and efforts. There has been a lot of discussion, but little has been done. This book provides an overview of the pertinent research and scientific projects conducted between 1999 and 2005 in co-operation with industrial companies; the projects were initiated and founded by the Bundesmin- teriumfur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Federal Ministry of Education and Research). This book illustrates the current diversity of existing operational approaches and thus also points out synergetic co-ordination options. It demonstrates the high, still unutilised potential for increasing the e- efficiency of material flows: the long since existing, but yet unused overlapping areas between cost reduction and simultaneous environmental relief by means of efficient material utilisation. The reason for this suboptimal material flow efficiency essentially lies in the currently still low transparency of cross-departmental or cross-company material flows (with regard to the flowing physical quantities and volumes - in detai- the commercial costs/ values and flow times).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Further Training and Knowledge Transfer, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

    Bernd Wagner

  • imu Augsburg GmbH & Co. KG, Augsburg, Germany

    Stefan Enzler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Material Flow Management

  • Book Subtitle: Improving Cost Efficiency and Environmental Performance

  • Authors: Kristin Hinz

  • Editors: Bernd Wagner, Stefan Enzler

  • Series Title: Sustainability and Innovation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1665-5

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-1591-7Published: 15 September 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-1665-5Published: 29 December 2005

  • Series ISSN: 1860-1030

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-926X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 206

  • Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Operations Management, Environmental Economics, Accounting/Auditing

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