... has come to be known as the triple bottom line (Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines, 2006 ; Elkington, 1999 ; Kleindorfer et al., 2005). Sustainable development Supply chain management Food industry Organizational culture Animal husbandry The economic success...

... and members to successfully manage their initiative. Dotun Adebanjo can be contacted at: d.adebanjo@liv.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Cluster analysis Food industry United Kingdom The necessity for growth, value enhancement and business competitiveness has been a key...

... the framework for understanding the overall optimum plan, and the framework leads to an efficient heuristic. The approach is practical, illustrated by a case study from the food industry, which shows the place of overall optimum planning within the company’s planning system and its implications for company...

..., we show how our results can be easily incorporated into a decision support system for structuring service operations according to customer preferences. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Service operations Marketing Empirical studies Customer orientation Food industry As the field...

... and valuable ingredients. 5 This factory has to produce a combination of make‐to‐order and make‐to‐stock. 6 Schedules can be disrupted by machine breakdowns, illness or interruptions in the supply of materials. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Food industry Process planning Production...

... with large‐scale automation. Control is primarily by means of information provided by sensors in the control room. Food industry Manufacturing Production control Scheduling The problem will consist of determining a scheduling of batches on a production line by respecting the constraints...

...Preben Sander Kristensen Reports on research in the Danish food industry which has developed a pattern of product development interaction where rich information passes directly between the production department and the external customer. The transformation from customer preferences into engineering...

... location policy and the local criteria actually used by firms operating in the food industry. Raw materials were the most important determinant and the results otherwise suggest that the use of financial factors as an instrument of regional policy needs re‐examination. Plant Location Decisions in the Plant...

... and implementation of these trends in food service organisations is discussed in relation to the organisational culture, leadership style and systems that such firms adopt. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Catering Industry Food Industry Service Industries United Kingdom The Impact of Trends in Service Food...