Assessing carbon footprint and energy efficiency in competing supply chains: Review – Case studies and benchmarking

Rizet, Christophe; Browne, Michael; Cornélis, Eric; Léonardi, Jacques

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2012.01.002

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“…Last mile Brown and Guiffrida [34], Kin, et al [30], Rizet, et al [35] Discussing e-commerce Handling last-mile delivery Transport in the last mile is not used to its full capacity…”

Section: Logistics Systemmentioning

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“…Furthermore, Liimatainen and Pöllänen [36] discuss the components that are closely connected to capacity utilisation, including the average load on laden trips, empty running, and average vehicle energy consumption, which helps to improve energy efficiency in logistics. Rizet, et al [35] pinpoint the time that is taken for activities, costs, service levels, and polices as factors influencing the capacity utilisation, and with that, energy consumption. Brown and Guiffrida [34] highlight that the particular capacity in private vehicles is not used to its full capacity.…”

Section: Capacity Utilisation In Logistics and Road Freight Transportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Browne, et al [10], who assessed the energy consumption of different product supply chains, found that the energy consumption that was used to transport goods during the last mile to the point of consumption was greater than that of all of the upstream transport activities combined. Rizet, et al [35] and Brown and Guiffrida [34] identified the potential of saving energy in the last mile.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Energy Efficiency in Logistics: An Interactive Approach to Capacity Utilisation

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2018

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Logistics operations are energy-consuming and impact the environment negatively. Improving energy efficiency in logistics is crucial for environmental sustainability and can be achieved by increasing the utilisation of capacity. This paper takes an interactive approach to capacity utilisation, to contribute to sustainable freight transport and logistics, by identifying its causes and mitigations. From literature, a conceptual framework was developed to highlight different system levels in the logistics system, in which the energy efficiency improvement potential can be found and that are summarised in the categories activities, actors, and areas. Through semi-structured interviews with representatives of nine companies, empirical data was collected to validate the framework of the causes of the unutilised capacity and proposed mitigations. The results suggest that activities, such as inflexibilities and limited information sharing as well as actors' over-delivery of logistics services, incorrect price setting, and sales campaigns can cause unutilised capacity, and that problem areas include i.a. poor integration of reversed logistics and the last mile. The paper contributes by categorising causes of unutilised capacity and linking them to mitigations in a framework, providing a critical view towards fill rates, highlighting the need for a standardised approach to measure environmental impact that enables comparison between companies and underlining that costs are not an appropriate indicator for measuring environmental impact.

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“…Last mile Brown and Guiffrida [34], Kin, et al [30], Rizet, et al [35] Discussing e-commerce Handling last-mile delivery Transport in the last mile is not used to its full capacity…”

Section: Logistics Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Capacity Utilisation In Logistics and Road Freight Transportmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…The approaches of the waste management sector to measure, report and verify its carbon footprint have been explored (Turner, Kemp, & Williams, 2011). A comparative assessment of competing supply chains in the case of three European countries in terms of carbon emissions and energy consumption has been presented (Rizet, Browne, Cornelis, & Leonardi, 2012). Finally, other studies cope with the complexity of the climate change and globalization challenge of the fresh produce supply chain where issues of microbiological food safety are examined (Jacxsens, Luning, van der Vorst, Devlieghere, Leemans & Uyttendaele, 2010;Tirado, Clarke, Jaykus, McQuatters-Gollop, & Frank, 2010).…”

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Supply chain management in view of climate change: an overview of possible impacts and the road ahead

Dasaklis

Pappis²

2013

JIEM

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Abstract:Purpose: The paper aims to provide a general overview of the impacts of climate change upon supply chains and to analyze the implications of climate change for supply chain management in terms of strategic and operational planning. A roadmap of fruitful research approaches is also presented.Design/methodology/approach: The paper makes use of a general review of the relevant literature and, based on a systematic categorization of the findings, looks for useful insights towards the issues of climate change and supply chain management. A framework is drawn for systematically assessing the impacts of climate change upon supply chains and their management, while making suggestions for future research. Practical implications: The paper provides several insights towards the issues of supply chain management in view of climate change and may serve as an initial basis for exploring future research directions by academics. Practitioners, especially those drafting value-creating supply chain agendas, may also find these insights useful for improving their managerial practices. Originality/value: By providing an original structured overview of the impacts of climate change upon supply chain design and operations management the paper substantiates the need for management improvements and provides research directions that may prove valuable to researchers.

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“…Urban freight transport also has to contribute to achieve environmental goals. Even if several studies have investigated the environmental issues arising from urban freight transport (e.g., Leonardi and Baumgartner [19]; Baumgartner et al [20]; McKinnon et al [11]; Rizet et al [21]; Waygood et al [22]; Hwang and Ouyang [23]), they mainly refer to CO 2 emissions on the part of operators (e.g., shippers, transporters, consumers), while few of them identify the visions of city planners or administrators (McKinnon [24]). This shows that further work is needed in this field.…”

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Urban Freight Transport Planning towards Green Goals: Synthetic Environmental Evidence from Tested Results

Russo

Comi

2016

Sustainability

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This paper reviews the ex-post assessment of city logistics measures implemented in some European cities and, in a "what if" framework, proposes an analysis of tested environmental effects which may be useful in defining city logistics scenarios to be evaluated ex ante by simulation models. The analysis is performed in relation to the goals of environmental sustainability to pursue and the main characteristics of the cities in question (i.e., population and density). The paper aims to provide a tool that could be used in an ex-ante assessment methodology to identify a priori which measures (or set of measures) could best work in a specific city with respect to the environmental sustainability goals to pursue. Future scenarios can, thus, be readily defined and subsequently assessed by simulation tools in order to verify whether they meet the planned objectives. Although all measures can produce considerable environmental effects, the study shows that the choice of their implementation should be driven by the type of pollutant to detect.

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Assessing carbon footprint and energy efficiency in competing supply chains: Review – Case studies and benchmarking

Cited by 67 publications

References 3 publications

Energy Efficiency in Logistics: An Interactive Approach to Capacity Utilisation

Energy Efficiency in Logistics: An Interactive Approach to Capacity Utilisation

Supply chain management in view of climate change: an overview of possible impacts and the road ahead

Urban Freight Transport Planning towards Green Goals: Synthetic Environmental Evidence from Tested Results

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