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Elliot Woolley
Elliot
Woolley
Guillermo Garcia-Garcia
Guillermo
Garcia-Garcia
R. Tseng
R.
Tseng
Shahin Rahimifard
Shahin
Rahimifard
Manufacturing resilience via inventory management for domestic food waste
Loughborough University
2015
Food waste
Environment
Inventory
Consumer behaviour
Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
2015-11-12 09:22:47
Conference contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Manufacturing_resilience_via_inventory_management_for_domestic_food_waste/9572219
The 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.