Sustainable Logistics

WITTE, HERMANN; JEDLINSKI, MARIUSZ Y DICHIARA, RAÚL

EdiUNS

Lugar: Bahía Blanca; Año: 2012 p. 185

978-987-1907-09-0

Preface This book mainly presents articles, which were prepared for the research project entitled Sustainable Production Logistics (Nachhaltige Produktionslogistik). The aim of our studies was to find a basic and simple way to assist the idea of the United Nations to install a worldwide process of sustainability. Our approach logically starts with an analysis of the production processes of enterprises. So the team consisting of researchers of both, the University of Applied Sciences of Osnabrück, Campus Lingen, and the University of Szczecin, first tried to develop an adequate production function to depict the production processes. Second it was necessary to set up special conditions for this function to ensure sustainability. The project was supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) and the Polish Ministery of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW). For the publication of the results of the mentioned research project the two party cooperation was enlarged to a third partner, the National University of the South (Universidad Nacional del Sur), Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Just before publication the third partner joined the team and made his contribution to the articles presented. Further he organized the last necessary steps before printing. We hope that our findings will help to support the worldwide process of sustainability. Before concluding let us mention another important point. Working on the project we learnt, that economics do not need a complex approach. A simple approach is a predicative attempt. This finding led to the foundation of what we would like to call the “Szczecin School of simple Economics”. We are grateful to the National University of the South (Universidad Nacional del Sur), Bahía Blanca, for publishing our research results.