scholarly journals Pollution Accounting for Corporate Actions: Quantifying the Air Emissions and Impacts of Transportation System Choices Case Study: Food Freight and the Grocery Industry in Los Angeles

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10194
Author(s):  
Aileen Nowlan ◽  
James Fine ◽  
Timothy O’Connor ◽  
Spencer Burget
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Grocery Industry ◽  
Logistics Systems ◽  
Goods Movement ◽  
Corporate Actions ◽  
Pollution Emissions

Credible corporate commitments to environmental and sustainability outcomes build upon reasonable estimates of corporate impacts and realistic plans to ameliorate those impacts. Although many companies have already begun to account for their goods movement emissions, the vast majority of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures do not. This report creates and critically evaluates two complementary accounting mechanisms for air pollution emissions resulting from local transportation systems—for use in ESG disclosure and impact mitigation planning. These mechanisms are applied to a case study of businesses involved in food freight in Los Angeles: demonstrating the scope of local goods movement impacts on air quality and climate, and paving a path for additional analyses to follow. By quantifying the scope of impact from certain business and supply chain operations, this analysis makes the case for enhanced corporate responsibility by documenting and then reducing transportation system emissions from supply chain and logistics systems.

scholarly journals Outcome-Driven Supply Chain Perspectives on Dry Ports

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alena Khaslavskaya ◽  
Violeta Roso
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Rail Transportation ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Dry Ports

The hinterland leg of maritime containerized transport as a part of supply chain has been increasingly pressured by larger volumes, as well as by a need to fulfill sustainability requirements that are expressed by social opinion and formal regulations. There is a potential to relieve this pressure through integration of a dry port, as a seaport’s inland interface, in the supply chain. Therefore, this paper aims to explain how a supply chain can benefit or enhance its outcomes of cost, responsiveness, security, environmental performance, resilience, and innovation, by the integration of a dry port. The data for this case study is collected through interviews and site visits from the privately owned Skaraborg dry port, Sweden; and the study is limited to the actors of the transport system involved in the development and operations of the dry port integrated setup. The results show that the six supply chain outcomes (cost, responsiveness, security, environmental performance, resilience, and innovation) are perceived by the actors as being desirable, and can be enhanced by the integration of a dry port in the supply chains. In particular, the enhancement of the supply chain outcomes can be achieved due to intermodality and reliability of rail transportation and customization of services associated with the dry port integrated setup, and by increasing the capacity of transportation system.

scholarly journals Centralised grocery supply chain planning: improved exception management

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Alftan ◽  
Riikka Kaipia ◽  
Lauri Loikkanen ◽  
Karen Spens
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Grocery Industry ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Expected Benefits

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an operations model for retail replenishment collaboration and identifies its expected benefits and limitations for the members of a grocery supply chain. Design/methodology/approach – A case study is conducted on a development project between a grocery wholesaler and two grocery product suppliers. Data are collected through semi-structured interviews with key respondents from four different companies. Findings – Despite advances in collaborative practices in grocery supply chains, retail store replenishment management faces challenges. In particular, demand exceptions management is a challenge in the grocery industry. A replenishment model called Collaborative Buyer-Managed Forecasting (CBMF) creates a proactive planning approach and a platform for close collaboration in the supply chain. The centralised forecasting transforms retailer sales data into a plan which serves the whole supply chain by creating one-order forecast. The CBMF model facilitates efficient demand management, improves demand responsiveness and promotes better availability of products in retail stores. Research limitations/implications – CBMF provides a replenishment planning model for the whole supply chain. It is tested to a limited extent in one supply chain. Practical implications – The study provides managers with a better understanding of the benefits of centralised forecasting and closer replenishment collaboration, especially during periods of exceptional demand. Originality/value – A new approach for managing demand in grocery supply chains with centralised forecasting is provided.

scholarly journals Infrastructure Partnership Success in Southern California

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-179
Author(s):  
Richard F. Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
First Century ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Goods Movement ◽  
Car Traffic ◽  
Financial Uncertainty ◽  
Pollution Emissions ◽  
Air Pollution Emissions

The Alameda Corridor rail project became a tale of two cities: Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. It started as a story including each of the six cities in between. The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority transformed a tangled web of rail lines, each owned and operated by three competing railroads, into one line. The new corridor created public value in eliminating grade rail crossing that backed up truck and car traffic in six mid-corridor cities, and through the reduction of air pollution emissions and groundwater contamination. The line moved the harbours from reliance on nineteenth-century rail technology to a twenty-first-century system aligned with the technology needed to compete in a globalized goods movement world. Public expense was significantly reduced as the line was built primarily with private sector debt financing, which was paid off by fees on private sector container cargo. The move to governance by only the cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles contained costs and kept the project on time to reduce the financial uncertainty that would have adversely affected the costs of borrowing. This efficient decision-making structure based on those with a financial stake in cost containment came at the expense of participation in decision-making by mid-corridor cities.

Blockchain in Supply Chain: Case Study of Lottemart Ciputat

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. K. Handoyo ◽  
M. R. Mashudi ◽  
H. P. Ipung
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Production Processes

Current supply chain methods are having difficulties in resolving problems arising from the lack of trust in supply chains. The root reason lies in two challenges brought to the traditional mechanism: self-interests of supply chain members and information asymmetry in production processes. Blockchain is a promising technology to address these problems. The key objective of this paper is to present qualitative analysis for blockchain in supply chain as the decision-making framework to implement this new technology. The analysis method used Val IT business case framework, validated by the expert judgements. The further study needs to be elaborated by either the existing organization that use blockchain or assessment by the organization that will use blockchain to improve their supply chain management.

Analysis of the Supply Chain Disruption Risks in the Malaysian Automotive Remanufacturing Industry-a Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuramilawahida Mat Ropi ◽  
◽  
Hawa Hishamuddin ◽  
Dzuraidah Abd Wahab ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Disruption ◽  
Disruption Risks
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