Authors: Per Engelseth
Within a few years food products sold in the EU must provide very detailed documentation regarding product characteristics. These characteristics must be documented regarding transformations at the various stages at specific locations as the product changes from a raw material to a finished product. This represents a complex information flow parallel and mirroring the materials flow. This information increases in complexity and volume as the product is moved towards the end-customer. To study this information flow an approach is formulated as focusing on the role of the package as an information resource in a logistics network. A narrative is provided depicting the materials flow of the Corona strawberry and its parallel outbound information flow. The upcoming government demands are described as currently not fully met in the studied agricultural industry. A set of potential research issues is presented.
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Publish Year: 2003
Conference: Lugano, Switzerland (2003)