Introduction 

Material flow management describes industrial production processes and their environmental impacts. Initially, Ecological effects are caused by materials: resource consumption and emissions resulting from the production and use of products.
The optimisation of material flows to reduce costs and negative environmental impact, has gained importance in practical and scientific activities, but still efforts for the implimitation need to improve. The potential for increasing the eco-efficiency of material flows is very high and often still unutilised. The areas between reduction of cost and negative environmental impact by efficient material utilisation are often overlapping. The reason for the often not optimal material flow efficiency is based in the currently still low transparency of cross-departmental or cross-company material flows with regard to the quantities and volumes and the corresponding commercial values and flow times. [Wagner, B.; Enzler, S. (2005): Material Flow Management: Improving Cost Efficiency and Environmental Performance. Springer Science & Business Media]

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