Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	GR/R31539/01
Title:	Assessing the Chain Costs In the Food and Drink Industry
Principal Investigator:	Whicker, Ms L
Other Investigators:	McCarthy, Professor I Roy, Professor R
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:	Bernard Matthews Food Manufacturers (G B) Co Ltd Institute of Logistics McCormick (U K) Ltd
Department:	Warwick Business School
Organisation:	University of Warwick
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 September 2001	Ends:	30 September 2001	Value (£):	183,759
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Manufact. Enterprise Ops& Mgmt
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Food and Drink
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The aim is to create a diagnostic methodology to accurately assess the resource utilisation of the logistics process in the supply chain within the food and drink industry. The unit of analysis will be 'manufacturing operations encompassing inbound and outbound logistics processes'. This will focus the research on both the physical flows and information flows across organisational boundaries from upstream first tier suppliers through manufacturing operations and downstream to customers delivery points.The project will deliver resource efficient methodologies, using existing tools, that allow food and drink manufacturers and their supply chains to identify and measure key cost drivers. The resulting methodology will enable logistics and supply chain managers to more accurately identify and assess where the major areas of waste lie in the process for individual products and customers. They will then be able to apply resource to improving the time element or cost element depending on the significance of the competitive advantage that will result. E-business will potentially effect both time and cost in the supply chain so there is a need to understand it from a time and cost perspective as well as from the customer's viewpoint. As e-business affects competitiveness this research will integrate with the development of network behaviour in the supply chains.
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