INFORMATION Creating sustainable supply chains
In a bid to reduce the environmental impact of global logistics, researchers at Loughborough University are working with organisations to develop environmentally sustainable, cost-effective and resilient supply chains.
As consumers, we are increasingly aware of the environmental and social impacts of our purchases, and pressure is growing on manufacturers and logistics companies to fight climate change. As well as cost-effective and
just-in-time delivery, organisations must address ecological and human costs of both products and distribution. Establishing these can be challenging, nonetheless, supply chain waste must be reduced, and greater end-to-end transparency achieved.
IMPROVED DECISION-MAKING SUSTAIN – a data-driven toolkit developed at Loughborough – supports complex decision making and is improving how logistics and supply chain managers worldwide are measuring, assessing and developing operational practices and performance. It allows manufacturing and
logistics companies to assess sustainability performance based on multi-dimensional KPIs, identify areas for improvement, benchmark performance and use the lowest cost interventions and best practices.
THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAIN SUSTAIN has evolved over several years – the product of collaborations with academic partners and industrial stakeholders worldwide, supported by international funding. NEX-GIFT (Next Generation
Sustainable Freight Transportation, 2014-16) – an international project – developed a deeper understanding of sustainability challenges and began to transform logistics practices.
REINVESTING IN THE FUTURE Loughborough-led project REINVEST – funded by the EU – brought together partners from Greece, India, Italy and the UK to explore ways to improve environmental sustainability and operational efficiency and influenced regional policy in the logistics sector through engagement with Chambers and LLEP. A project, funded by British
Council, is looking at the resilience of the food security system to identify,
model and manage current obstacles; providing better understanding of the severity of existing barriers and associated risks.
MANAGING WATER AND WASTE Funded by EPSRC-DTP, Loughborough-led research in collaboration with the Carbon Trust is examining how businesses engage with water resource accounting tools – and why some do not. This will underpin the development of water resource efficiency methodology for assessing water foot-printing and mitigating water risk in the supply chain.
SHARING GOOD PRACTICE The UK Forum for Supply Chain Sustainability – co-founded by Loughborough and the Carbon Trust – facilitates sharing of knowledge and best practice, mutual learning and networking across industry and academia. To date, more than 200 UK organisations have engaged with the Forum.
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