Reducing packaging material
Packaging material is used in the distribution of our spare parts and accessories to retailers in Europe. Fluctuating volumes and different shipping styles means that we have a number of ways of packaging these parts.
Despite efforts to standardise our in and outbound flows, we continue to generate packaging waste at our Parts Centres and Dealerships. To reduce this waste we are:
- Increasing the usage of returnable packaging in inbound supply flows.
- Standardising shipping pallet boxes through specification agreements with our suppliers. These boxes are then reused for outbound shipping purposes. In FY09, 89% of packaging was either returnable or re-usable packaging. Only 11% of the packaging was from new packaging material, which is 8% lower than in FY06.
- Continuing to monitor the accuracy of our data to support correct waste declarations by our National Marketing and Sales Companies to their local authorities.
- Ensuring Kaizen (continuous improvement) of the individual and logistics packaging conditions realising a saving of 173 tonnes in FY09.
Article is good. This is about another company ryt? but still we can get an idea to develop the sustainability of our company.
ReplyDeleteyeah you are correct harini though it is abt anothr conpany we stll can use it :)
ReplyDeleteyes it is. what i wanted to show was since such big companies are doing things like this we could take some ideas and show our client what its like.
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