The Key to Reducing Supply Chain Emissions and Costs at the Same Time
source: http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/05/reducing-supply-chain-emissions-costs/
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Logistics managers attempting to optimize supply chains for sustainability and emissions reductions face a tough question: how to implement those goals without breaking the bank.
The conventional thinking is that there’s always tradeoff: A transport company can reduce its CO2 emissions along a supply chain, but at a higher investment and operating cost.
Findings released last week during a webinar sponsored by Finished Vehicle Logistics magazine suggest that in certain cases the best of both worlds is possible.
“You can reduce CO2 emissions and costs [along the supply chain] with the right approaches and if processes are executed correctly,” says Nils Lie, Vice President, Business Development, Supply Chain Management for Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, which handles auto logistics from factories to dealers around the world. “It requires thinking in a new way,” he continues, one that adds carbon emissions to the “holy trinity” of cost, time and service quality.
Many companies have not considered examining their outbound supply chains from an emissions perspective because of the assumed high cost of doing so.
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The conventional thinking is that there’s always tradeoff: A transport company can reduce its CO2 emissions along a supply chain, but at a higher investment and operating cost.
Findings released last week during a webinar sponsored by Finished Vehicle Logistics magazine suggest that in certain cases the best of both worlds is possible.
“You can reduce CO2 emissions and costs [along the supply chain] with the right approaches and if processes are executed correctly,” says Nils Lie, Vice President, Business Development, Supply Chain Management for Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, which handles auto logistics from factories to dealers around the world. “It requires thinking in a new way,” he continues, one that adds carbon emissions to the “holy trinity” of cost, time and service quality.
Many companies have not considered examining their outbound supply chains from an emissions perspective because of the assumed high cost of doing so.
Post Continues: http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/05/reducing-supply-chain-emissions-costs/
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