Essays about: "upstream value chain"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 essays containing the words upstream value chain.

1. 1. Life Cycle Assessment as a decision-making tool within vaccine manufacturing – Potential and Limitations

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Simon Deklerck; [2023]
   Keywords : Decision-making; energy intensive industries; Life Cycle Assessment; Life Cycle Inventory; pharmaceutical; Product Footprint Calculator; value chain; vaccine manufacturing;

   Abstract : Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a widely used method for evaluating the environmental impacts of a product throughout its entire life cycle. As a decision-making tool, LCA allows decision-makers to identify the environmental hotspots in a product or process, and to explore opportunities for improvement. READ MORE

3. 2. Assessing cost-efficiency in a distribution network with different degrees of centralization : A case study at a Swedish pharmaceutical company

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

   Author : Adam Thillberg; [2022]
   Keywords : Distribution network; Centralization; Cost-efficiency; Distributionsnätverk; Centralisering; Kostnadseffektivitet;

   Abstract : The supply chain is multilateral concept, involving all actors partaking in fulfilling customer requests. Within the supply chain, the outbound distribution network is key for achieving profitability as it has a direct effect on supply chain costs and on customer value. READ MORE

4. 3. Value chain analysis : Searching for upstream value-adding in the Kenyan seaweed industry

   University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

   Author : Anton Dahlberg; [2022]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Growing interest for seaweed derived products in industrial applications have driven demand for tropical seaweeds in recent decades. To take part of this development, Kenya has incorporated a target of expanding its existing yet small-scale seaweed industry through the Kenyan Blue Economy agenda. READ MORE

5. 4. A transformative journey from linear to circular business models of a First-tier Supplier in the marine leisure industry. A Volvo Penta case

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

   Author : Martina Forbicini; [2022]
   Keywords : circular business models; not-end-user facing companies; first-tier suppliers; collaboration; value chain relations; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : More and more companies are adopting Circular Business Models (CBMs), which can serve to foster a sustainable transition towards a Circular Economy (CE). Nonetheless, much of the CBMs adoption-related research in academia has a focus on end-user facing companies, which have direct access to final end-users, to whom they sell a complete product. READ MORE

6. 5. Closing the Plastic Tap — Global Plastic Waste and the Circular Economy. A Multi-Regional Hybrid Input-Output Analysis of Plastic Waste Footprints

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Judith Baeta Humanes; [2021]
   Keywords : Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Plastic pollution is a cross-national environmental and societal challenge that needs to be addressed from the point of view of global supply chains. The circular economy (CE) has emerged as an alternative paradigm to the traditional “take-make-waste” models of production and consumption to create a closed-loop system so that plastic is trapped in the economy and not in the environment. READ MORE