Harvest Green Savings By Connie Robbins Gentry Chain Store Age.com, October 1, 2007

When retailers think of operations they can turn green, improved efficiencies in air conditioning, lighting and fuel consumption immediately come to mind. Among the less obvious opportunities for eco-friendly processes are fleet management and reverse logistics. Rising oil prices have turned attention to route-optimization of private fleets and a commitment to ship more products with fewer miles. The environmental benefits of transportation efficiencies have been largely viewed as secondary rather than primary objectives. However, the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions and improving the efficiency of ground-freight transportation is a critical concern for the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay Transport Partnership. A focal point of the SmartWay program is a reduction of unnecessary idling by truck and locomotive carriers. Last month, Milwaukee, Wis.-based RedPrairie, which has announced a green initiative to provide solutions that support more environmentally sustainable supply chains, became the first supply chain technology provider to be accepted as an affiliate member of the EPA’s SmartWay program. RedPrairie’s fleet-visibility solution provides real-time tracking of asset utilization and efficiencies, including a dashboard tool that records idling time and C02 emissions.   Read more... Download PDF (23 KB)

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