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11 Oct 2012
Franprix, part of Groupe Casino, wanted to improve the way it made store deliveries in central Paris. The company faced a challenge of meeting tough service level standards while delivering in an urban environment. Working with its service provider and the river authorities, it has found an innovative solution of using river barges to deliver to its city centre stores.
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09 Oct 2012
The Olympic Games are huge: 4bn television viewers, 10m spectators and 15,000 athletes from 200 countries compete in the events for a six week period. As sponsor of the London Olympic Games, Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) supplied all the soft-drinks for all the Olympic and Paralympic venues, ensuring all athletes, spectators, games officials and media had access to their products. Supplying products for such a huge event comes with a number of opportunities and challenges. Discover how CCE developed a leading edge, sustainable solution for the supply of products for London 2012.
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04 Oct 2012
Following the integration of the Cadbury and LU businesses, Kraft Foods expanded its sustainability goals and aims to reduce waste at manufacturing plants by 15% by 2015. A number of building and refurbishment projects at the Bourneville manufacturing site had elevated waste levels so Kraft Foods implemented a specific project with a number of innovative initiatives to reduce waste at the plant. Discover how Kraft Foods achieved zero waste to landfill at its Bourneville plant.
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20 Mar 2012
Asda’s ‘we operate for less’ programme has engineered a step-change in its supply chain: distribution centre (DC) throughput is up 24% with space utilisation up just 1%. Read this case study to understand how Asda’s implementation of three key projects, re-engineering the DC network, implementing a ‘home grown’ lean programme and driving fewer and friendlier road miles, have saved £130m and significantly improved supply chain efficiency.
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28 Feb 2012
In February 2012, Tesco launched its third rail service from Daventry running to the Wentloog rail head in Wales. The new rail service will take 22,000 vehicle trips of the road, further cementing Tesco’s strategy to build a true intermodal solution at its Daventry DC and actively supports its on-going commitment to be a zero-carbon business by 2050. Read this presentation to discover how Tesco implemented this strategy at Daventry.
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15 Feb 2012
By forming a collaborative partnership, Nestlé and Eddie Stobart have extensively tested three dual-fuel vehicles in a real-life operation. The vehicles use new technology that allow more than 70% of diesel to be substituted with gas. Through the trial period, which saw the vehicles travel 225,000 kms, the vehicles used 60% less diesel per kilometre and reduced CO2 emissions by 14% helping to reduce costs and improve sustainability. Discover more about this award-winning initiative and how it could change Nestlé’s distribution operation.
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06 Dec 2011
Through a number of sustainable distribution initiatives, Musgrave has reduced overall costs by 5% and is on track to remove 1.25m kilometres from its supply chain operation. The retailer has achieved this through four separate initiatives including reviewing its ambient network, optimising its temperature controlled deliveries and introducing new material handling units to its supply chain.
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09 Nov 2011
Sainsbury’s and World Flowers have worked together to tackle volatility, order processes and waste within the floral category. By introducing a new process to fix orders and extend lead times, contingency stock in the supply chain has reduced and product life on-shelf has increased.
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11 Oct 2011
Working together, Morrisons and Kerry Noon have improved relations and through some simply changes in working practices have reduced waste product at the point of manufacture by 33%, increased forecast accuracy by 6% and reduced packaging on some products by 20%.
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03 Oct 2011
Unilever is aiming to halve the environmental footprint of its products by 2020. To achieve this reduction across its global supply chain, the company has developed a bespoke tool that accurately measures CO2 emissions in its operations. This allows Unilever to identify carbon hot spots and work to reduce emissions from the supply chain.
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