Improved choice and reduced waste for consumer goods through informed logistics

这是一个可行性项目，旨在为“虚拟商业街”创造使能技术。该提议是通过共享使用现有的MG基础设施(网站、订单组装、当地送货货车、清空打包退回和重复使用)，以最少的道路交通从多个地方和国家企业在线订购送货。该系统将具有以下特点：(1)多家企业一次递送到同一地址：更少的流量和更多的服务创新(2)通过在线订购/仓库准备的产品定制，这是传统零售业所不具备的(3)通过可重复使用的包装(通过系统退回的空包装)避免浪费(4)在英国领先的行业部门的重大创新空间(零售管理/物流)关键是将成本(和影响)降至最低的高效物流--为创造更多创新产品和服务提供财务空间。技术上的推动因素是通过启用了RFID的主要和次要包装将物流信息扩展到“最后一英里”。项目产出将是：(1)技术支持原型(支持RFID的包装和跟踪/读取系统)(2)在与所有感兴趣的利益攸关方协商的基础上制定系统规范(3)作为主要后续项目的区域试验业务计划鉴于涉及的利益攸关方范围广泛，该项目仅是一个可行性阶段。它将提出消费者案件(优势和与系统的互动)、金融/物流案件、环境/社会案件(交通、包装废物)，并建立一个财团进行区域审判。

This is a feasibility project intended to create enabling technology for a "virtual high-street". The proposal is for on-line ordering from multiple local an.d national businesses delivere.d with least road traffic via shared use of existmg Infrastructures (websites, order assembly, local delivery vans, emptypackaging returned and re-used). The system will feature:(1) Multiple businesses delivering to same address in one trip: less traffic & more service innovation(2) Product customisation via on-line ordered/warehouse prepared not available in conventional retail(3) Avoidance of waste through re-useable packaging (empty packs returned through the system)(4) Significant scope for innovation in an industry sector where UK leads (retail management/logistics)The key is efficient logistics that minimise cost (and impact)- to give financial room to create more innovative products and services. The technical enabler is to extend logistics information to the "last mile" via RFID enabled primary and secondary pacakging. Project output will be:(1) Prototypes of technical enablers (RFID-enabled packaging and tracking/reading systems)(2) System specification based on consultation with all interested stakeholders(3) Business plan for regional trial as main follow-on projectIn view of the wide range of stakeholders involved this project is a feasibility stage only. It will make the consumer case (advantages and interaction with the system), financial/logistics case, environmental/social case (traffic, packaging waste), and build a consortium for a regional trial.