importance and benefits of Green logistics in Supply Chain

1. Green
logistics
Presented by
Abdullah Javaid
Abdul Manan
Ghulam Haider
Umer Ali Butt
Wajahat Hussain

2. Executive summary
• Definition
• Why go green
• Important function of modern transport
• Applications of Logistics

3. Introduction
Logistical activities:
• freight transport
• storage
• inventory management
• materials handling and all the related
• information processing

4. Introduction
• The main Objective
• Green logistics

5. Significance
Traditional ways of forward distribution includes:
• Transport
• Warehousing
• Packaging
• inventory management from the producer to the
consumer

6. Significance
New ways of backwards distribution includes:
• Recycling
• Disposal of waste materials of all kinds
• Environmental considerations through the whole life-
cycle of a product
• i.e. (production, distribution, consumption and
disposal

7. Significance
• Example
• BMW is designing a vehicle whose parts will
be entirely recyclable.

8. Significance
Benefits from getting into “green logistics”
• Reduction in CO2 emissions
• Unlocking significant cost savings
• Heightened supply chain optimization
• Boosted business performance

9. Significance
Conflict of Green Logistics:
Cost
Time/flexibility
Reliability
Warehousing
E-commerce

10. Green Logistics in
Application
IKEA model
• IKEA is a global furniture store
• It provides “cheap furniture that as many as possible
can afford”
• Instead of wooden pallets they are using
Paper/cardboard pallets
• Underneath these ledges there are a plastic leg
underneath the goods

11. Green Logistics in
Application
Goals of IKEA:
1. 2012 60% total flow integrated to non-wooden
pallets
2. 2014 100% of total flow integrated to non-wooden
pallets
3. 2015 all transport partners are fulfilling the Iway
standards

12. Green Logistics in
Application
DHL – Go Green Solutions
• DHL provide “a reliable way of accounting for and
managing your supply chain CO2 emissions, with
best-in-class carbon reporting”.
• Methodology
• best-in-class CO2 calculation

13. Green Logistics in
Application
DHL – Go Green Solutions
• the principles of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and
the World Economic Forum (WEF)
• Future goals

14. Conclusion
 Concerns over congestion, land take
environmental degradation is a concern for
authorities.
 Logistics firms are finding a match between
environmental consideration and profitability.
 Industry is adopting green logistics measures.
 Green Logistics has a still a long way to go
ahead.

15. Thank You
Any Questions