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Sustainable Logistics
When most people think about sustainability, logistics is one of the first areas that comes to mind. With so many vehicles moving such high volumes of goods to such diverse and dispersed locations, there are almost infinite opportunities for inefficiency—costing you time, money, and environmentally critical resources.
Because there are so many moving parts, the first step towards improving the sustainability of your logistics operations is to get a single view of those operations. With your logistics mapped out and trackable, you can start identifying where inefficiencies are creeping in, and where improvements are needed.
Unlike other areas, driving sustainability in logistics isn’t necessarily about making huge changes overnight; it’s about enabling small efficiency gains that add up to big results. By delivering information to drivers in real time so that they can optimize their routes, for example, you save minutes on a single trip—but across a year, all those minutes add up to weeks of time, and thousands of dollars in saved resources.
The Best Practices of Sustainable Logistics
- Improve visibility of all logistics resources, to better understand and identify opportunities for optimal resource usage
- Optimize shipments to maximize asset utilization and route efficiency
- Enable strong collaboration between logistics operators, warehouses, carriers, and individual drivers
- Make changes quickly and respond to changing transportation conditions in real time to optimize routing and resource usage
- Empower everyone with an overview of your logistics operations, and give them the data they need to optimize their own activities, routing, and decision-making
Tailored Action Plan
Explore new connected tools that help you visualize your entire logistics footprint.
Once you have gained that visibility, make sure it is accessible by the people who need it, through any device.
Use that visibility to understand how well your resources are being utilized globally.
Start seizing new opportunities for optimization by consolidating shipments and optimizing logistics plans to better suit your available resources.
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