Today’s Green logistics: Tomorrow’s future
Introduction:
Green Logistics is a process of diminish damage to nature or environment because logistics as well as Supply Chain Operation of group or company. Green Logistics includes transportation and resources in the depth process like as inventory, procurement management, warehouse management, supplier and buyer and, so on.
Sustainable Logistics is a real view of SCM processes, Logistics and technology that marks the environmental, economical, social and legal aspects of supply chain management components.
The main principle of Green Logistics and Sustainable Logistics is socially responsible material/products and operations are not only good for planet and living things, but also good for create or building positive brand awareness, diminish environmental impact and generate long-term revenue.
Some best example of Green Logistics:
Transportation: Minimize the energy and fuel consumption. Use Electric vehicles. Google used AI based car and bi-cycle in their campus.
Efficiency: Reduce waste during operation or process that helps to increase the efficiency.
Design: Make things easier for logistics. Like furniture require small assembly, but it fitted into standard box.
Reverse logistics: Recycle the product which is returned by customer.
Scope of Green Logistics:
It is suitable and useful for the environment
It very helpful in an Eco-friendly & efficient transport and distribution system
It helpful in the material handling
It helps in waste management
It help in packaging and transport
It effectively manages the flow of information and product between point of starting and point of destination
Environmental problems caused:
Availability of Fuel and cost of fuel
Lot of million tons of packaging is used yearly in manufacturing industry which contains paper and plastic
Papers are produced from cutting the trees
Aerodynamic drag responsible for lots of fuel consumption of multi-dimensional trucks
Need of E-Logistics:
To expand Environmental constraint due to global warming.
CSR
Useful for industries and organizations
Eco- friendly
To develop environmental awareness to employees and stakeholders
Solution for increasing cost of fuel
Green Logistics shown into:
Transportation
Warehousing
Value added services like Pallet and container pooling, packing technologies and tracking and tracing
Product designing phase
Production phase
Material or Services
Reverse logistics
New technologies for Green logistics:
IoT (Internet of Things)
Environment and technology
Analytics and advanced machine learning
Cloud computing
Advantages of Green Logistics:
Financial Benefits:
Revenue generation
Cost reduction
More asset utilization
Improve the customer service
Environmental Benefits:
Wastage reduction
Improve the energy efficiency
Minimized air, water emission and reduce pollution Minimum fuel consumption
Social Benefits:
Reduced immunity impacts
Minimized noise
Minimized traffic congestion
Improve health
Improve safety
Improve security
Other advantages:
Increase productivity
Higher motivation to employees
Increase job opportunity
Minimized the carbon emission
Better utilization of natural assets
Green Logistics is very important feature which all the companies should implement to prevent the natural resources and environment and improve the health of peoples through the minimized the pollution.