Green Landscape: Supply Chain Sustainability
Healthier Planet = Healthier Bottom Line
Companies must expand their focus beyond direct costs and simplistic service metrics and take a broader view to understand the sustainability and risk considerations in their network. If done properly, the following changes can promote a healthier planet and bottom line.
Saving Green While Going Green
Climate change is influencing how consumers decide to purchase products and choose partnerships. How can supply chain leaders incorporate green practices while maintaining profit margins?
Four Ways Reusables Benefit the Circular Economy
Reusable packaging supports a circular economy. It can be manufactured, used, reused, and reprocessed without impacting the solid waste stream—a huge benefit, considering limited- and one-time-use packaging contributes to the waste crisis.
Tech Can Turn Your Supply Chain Into a Well-Oiled Green Machine
If they want to succeed, smart brands need to recognize the consequences of getting sustainability wrong. The future is in more eco-friendly practices, not just because customers demand them, but because it is the right thing to do for the planet.
Operating a Purpose-Driven Supply Chain
For global brands that source raw materials, move products through global supply chains across borders and ultimately deliver a product or experience to a customer, understanding the impact of a supply chain is incredibly valuable.
The Supply Chain World is Not Flat
Instead of making, using, and disposing of products and materials, leading companies keep components in use in the value chain and logistics process for as long as possible.
How Reduced Packaging Waste is Key to Sustainability
Shippers are turning to innovative solutions to reduce packaging waste and emissions as key components of their sustainability efforts.
How to Grow a Green Supply Chain
In today’s competitive environment, sustainability must improve profitability and reduce risk.
5 Ways Your TMS Can Help You Go Green
Transportation Management Systems’ have the ability to help you be more environmentally responsible. Here are the top five ways a TMS can help your supply chain go green.
How to Be Fashionably Green
Going green is in style for retailers. Here’s how adopting a multi-faceted sustainability strategy can lower costs as well as boost brand loyalty.
Greening Your Supply Chain With B2B Automation
Replacing manual, paper-based processes with fully automated systems that use electronic B2B transactions in place of paper documents is one major step toward a greener supply chain.
Ready to Reduce Your Footprint? Start by Taking These 5 Steps
Getting your company’s green initiatives off the ground isn’t always easy, but these five tips will help your program grow.
Unlocking the Hidden Green Value in Mobile Devices
A good reverse logistics program offers mobile device retailers and OEMs a world of opportunity.
Reimagining Molded Pulp Packaging: It’s Not Just For Eggs Anymore
Many manufacturers have turned to molded pulp as an environmentally friendly packaging alternative.
Five LED Lighting Myths Debunked
Five common misconceptions about LED lighting in industrial and hazardous facilities.
Could New Fuel Efficiency Standards Lead to Transportation Cost Savings?
New federal emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks may prompt fleet operators to invest in new equipment.
Weathering Climate Change and Supply Chain Risk
Supply chains must develop strategies for reducing risk related to climate change, such as drought and extreme weather.
Optimized Operations Are Green Operations
Ocean shipping lines have made significant progress to optimize operations, leading to reduced costs and environmental impact.
Using SmartWay Data to Inform Transportation Purchasing Decisions
SmartWay data allows shippers and 3PLs to make business decisions that support their sustainability goals.
10 Trends Driving Greener Supply Chains
Trends could transform logistics operations, particularly in emerging markets, creating more sustainable supply chains.
CNG as a Transportation Fuel: A Fuel Manager's Perspective
While it promises supply chain sustainability gains, using compressed natural gas as a transportation fuel requires multi-step capital and operating considerations, writes Casey Whelan of U.S. Energy Services.
Wasting Away to Meet Sustainability Goals
An average distribution center generates or handles anywhere from 100 to 1,000 tons of solid waste each year that could be reduced, reused, or recycled. Emily P. Davis of Exel/DHL Supply Chain Americas outlines five keys for helping waste management and other sustainability programs succeed.
4 Steps to Reducing Emissions in the Supply Chain
By collaboratively engaging with their supplier networks, companies can mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions and improve supplier relationships while achieving greater efficiency and cost reductions, writes Gary Hanifan of Accenture.
Reusable Shipping Dunnage Protects Sustainability Efforts
Protective reusable dunnage can take the place of single- or limited-use corrugated or wood filler to move pallets and products securely in an environmentally conscious manner, writes Paul Fitzgerald of Paylode Cargo Protection Systems.
Don’t Be Afraid Of Product Lifecycle Assessment
Product lifecycle assessment (LCA) can reveal opportunities to cut costs, gain efficiencies, and improve sustainability and carbon footprint, writes Sara Pax, Bluehorse Associates.
CNG Fuels Trucking Sustainability Efforts
Compressed natural gas (CNG) powered vehicles have gained visibility as leading-edge companies are transitioning to fleets that use this alternative fuel source, writes Cliff Otto, Saddle Creek.
Launching a Sustainability Initiative Can Be as Easy as 1-2-3
While some organizations and industries may have operations that naturally lend themselves to sustainability efforts, all companies should be empowered to review their shipping and supply chain operations through the lens of sustainability.
Switching to Emissions-reducing Fuel Technologies
Shipping and logistics professionals facing stricter emissions regulations and rising diesel prices will have an opportunity to take control of their fleets and realize the fuel and cost savings selective catalytic reduction brings, writes Chad Dombroski of Yara North America.
Making Sustainability a Reality
Businesses worldwide need to take collective and collaborative responsibility for making supply chain sustainability a reality.
Pallet-Sharing Programs: Better for the Planet
For shipping and receiving, there are three types of pallet programs: single-use or one-way, extended-use or buy/sell, and leasing or rental. Hillary Femal of IFCO Systems describes the uses and benefits of each type.
Greening the Supply Chain Through Warehouse Automation
Investing in automated storage and retrieval systems and WMS helps warehouses grow greener and reap financial benefits.
Hold Everything: Adopting Protective Packaging Practices
Green packaging strategies can reduce cargo emissions, conserve resources, cut transport costs, and enhance your brand's reputation; Bill Armstrong of Sealed Air Corporation and Arnold Barlow of UPS explain how to apply them.
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