Integration of Material Flow Management into Company Processes within the Automotive Industry

Abstract

The underlying assumption of this contribution is that environmental protection and sustainability are already integral parts of our societal mind-set. This would have an impact on the day-to-day operations within companies. We call the resulting evolutionary transformation process integration : the integration of material flow management as a concretion of sustainability into industrial processes (e.g. in automotive industry). The aim of this contribution is to discuss process integration as a concept to establish new non-sustainable routine within the industry. Therefore it is necessary to combine such a process model by metaphors, which stand for the new action orientations: in addition to material flow management in particular resource and energy efficiency.