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Government regulations and customs duties restrict the import of trucks to some of the markets to which Scania tries to sell their trucks. The distribution problem due to these regulations is solved by the foreign assembly department, KD, at Scania. This means that competence is needed and costs are added not related to Scania's core operations. The aim of this master thesis has been to analy

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to contribute to the development and implementation of an improved packaging solution to Tetra Pak parts that provides a higher customer value with the ultimate goal to strengthen the Tetra Pak brand. Objectives: To evaluate a number of packaging solutions of corrugated board to a limited number of Tetra Pak unique Carton parts and produce recommendations r

In this project, we are studying the material flow and the information flow of sample materials and the appurtenant report of deviation for the purpose to be able to suggest better solutions. The sample material, which is to be analysed, is to be continuously taken from the production flow. The purpose is to navigate the process by the results found by the analysis. Because of this, it's very

I Sverige ökar, enligt Statistiska Centralbyrån, antalet konsumenter som har tillgång till Internet, antingen i hemmet eller på jobbet. Det tillsammans med det faktum att befolkningen blir allt mer stressad, gör att dagligvaruhandel över Internet borde ha en möjlighet att fungera i Sverige. I litteraturen jag undersökt har jag funnit ett antal potentiella konsumentgrupper för inköp av dagligvaror

This report is written about a project with LTI-dough products. LTI stands for Low Temperature Inactive. The LTI-doughs are made with special yeast that stays inactive at low temperatures. All products made of LTI-dough in this project are pizzas. There were two main reasons for this project. The present package and handling costs are too high compared with the product costs. The present package

This master dissertation was made during 2003 at technical package development within Tetra pak R&D AB in co-operation with packaging logistics at Lund institute of technology Theoretic material was gathered from internal development reports, public patents, external literature and interviews with experts within the field. We performed smaller test experiments and analysed them using the simp

This master thesis has been written during the autumn of 2007 and in the month of January 2008. It investigates how the Lean philosophy can be used in Warehousing businesses. Further it gives example of tools that can help Warehousing companies to become Leaner in their business. There is a contradiction between Lean Thinking and Warehousing practice today, since Lean strive at being just in

Tetra Pak Packaging Material AB (TPPM) is the division within the Tetra Pak concern that produces the packaging material that later on will be used for liquid products. There are 63 TPPM plants in the world, and the factory in Lund is one of the largest with its 325 employees. It is also the TPPM factory that manufactures the most varied set of packages. There are nine producing machines, divi

Haldex Barnes Hydraulics (HBH) is a company which produces hydraulic aggregates for use in forklifts, construction equipment, and trucks. The last two years the company has expanded. This has lead to an insufficient production of aggregates. Thus wishes HBH to increase their production without making to large investments. This report includes a now-state analysis of the problems and where they ar

the most obvious problem at Traction today is the in-between handling that demands much time and resources. The reason is that the packages are not designed with handling in mind. Several of the packages of today also have a poor degree of utilization that means there is room for a fewer number of articles. That in turn means more packages, more transports, more storage space and more staff. On th

Problem Hur fungerar dagens kylkedja för den utvalda frysta produkten? Vilka skillnader finns mellan av företagen beskriven, och faktisk kylkedja? Kan Bioetts system förenkla kvalitetsarbetet i dagens kylkedjor? Kan Bioetts system visualisera brister i dagens kylkedjor? Syfte Syftet är uppdelat i tre olika områden: Dels skall det undersökas huruvida Bioetts system kan säkerställa en obruten kylke

Introduction: To gain competitiveness, industrial focuses are addressed towards product quality improvement, product time compression, costs and lead-time reduction. Nowadays, these diverse goals cannot be achieved by an isolated organizational switch but throughout an aimed supply policy. In particular, an integrated view to manage physical goods and virtual information from suppliers to customer

Iggesund Paperboard Limited works in an increasingly competitive and cost-focused industry. The production is very customised and besides the different product variants some customers also have special requests, which mean activities that fall out of the normal process. The contribution system does not identify the additional costs that depend on the special customer requests. The purpose with th

The situation at Plastal AB is following; the plant in Simrishamn has not capacity enough but the plant in Kristinehamn has unused capacity. My task with this master thesis is to build a logistic flow between this two plants, optimize purchase quantities and ensure delivery safety. The production of the Intermediate Section (LS) will be divided between the plants. The LS will be produced in the f

Syftet med examensarbetet har varit att åstadkomma en ökad omsättningshastighet och en minskad kapitalbindning på 13 strategiskt utvalda artiklar i produkten System 2000 genom att införa Kanbanstyrning. Målet var att kvantifiera nyckeltalen omsättningshastighet, genomsnittlig kapitalbindning och flödets stabilitet genom simulering. Ytterliggare en målsättning var att beskriva de metoder som oftast

Distrilux International AB, a company within the Electrolux-group, works among other things with storing of products from other companies in the Electrolux-group. This rapport contains a cost analysis of the two Distrilux warehouses in Motala and Mariestad. The company offers five services in these warehouses, in-loading of products from a local factory and from external factories, storing, out-lo

Reservdelar till plattvärmeväxlare levereras från Alfa Lavals reservdelslager i Lund. Variationen på de artiklar och emballage som finns är stor liksom de transportsätt som används. Emballaget har en avsevärd påverkan på kostnaderna i logistiksystemet, liksom logistiksystemet på ett motsvarande sätt påverkar kostnaderna för emballaget. Alfa Laval har idag en vag uppfattning av vilka kostnader som

Problem Statement After the hurricane Gudrun in January 2005 EON Elnät Sverige AB started the project KRAFTTAG, were 17,000 km of the airborne power grid shall be replaced with cables underground. The transformers in the airborne power grid shall be dismounted, renovated if necessary and then conveyed to stations, of type kiosk. Additional new transformers, more than planned, have been bought. T

Målet med detta examensarbete har varit att på bästa möjliga sätt finna ett truckdatorsystem som kan förbättra arbetssituationen och säkerheten i Movex på förrådet hos Pharmacia & Upjohn Consumer Healthcare i Helsingborg. Truckdatasystemets främsta egenskaper skall vara enkelhet, smidighet, lätt utbyggbarhet för framtida behov, samtidigt som det skall fungera med det nuvarande Movex systemet.

SCA Packaging, as a provider of transport packaging, wants further knowledge of the logistics processes a corrugated board box undergoes. This thesis describes the development, the theory and the trial of a method for modelling logistic processes. The method is based on a break down of the packaging process, and analysis of the resulting components. The packaging process in its entirety is the ma