Reducing transportation CO₂ emissions through pooling of supply networks: perspectives from a case study in French retail chains

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Consolidation of shipments is an old subject in logistics, however as the supply chain concept spreads amongst firms, a few of them are still thinking about using collaboration to reduce the environmental logistic footprint. How much reduction will there be in CO₂ emissions if members of a supply chain start a collaboration to share supply networks? First, we present the difference between well-known consolidation principles and the proposed concept of logistical network pooling; then we apply this difference to several scenarios. As they were driven by logistical data from real firms, they represent a good estimate of the potential savings from emissions. The main finding of this research is a potential saving of at least 25% of CO₂ emissions from pooled networks versus the current setup. Also discussed are the other effects of the different scenarios on delivery frequencies and collaboration viability.View full textDownload full textKeywordsCO2 emissions, freight consolidation, network pooling, supply chain, collaborationRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2010.489276