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47 Most U.S. corporations are actively working to improve the sustainability of their supply chains.
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48 Committee has oversight of environmental impact and sustainability issues, labor practices, and corporate responsibility issues in major business decisions. Within the Supply Chain Department, Nike has established an internal unit devoted to improving logistics sustainability (Nike, Inc., 2011)
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49 Supply chain sustainability is only one such factor, and within that, air emissions is a single element. Shippers' supply chain sustainability programs generally reflect overall corporate sustainability policy and typically address activities across the end-to-end supply chain (including product sourcing, manufacturing, packaging, transportation, warehousing, etc.)
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50 company has made many investments in achieving the predicted results, but lately fuel economy has improved only modestly, perhaps partly because of an increasing content of biodiesel (with a lower British thermal unit content than regular diesel) in the nation's fuel supply.
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51 Exhibit 5-1. Sustainability metrics and goals.
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52 The active use that carriers, in particular, make of these metrics was emphasized in several interviews. For example, Weber Logistics has developed a dashboard for all energy and efficiency areas, which is reviewed daily and includes driving time, idle time, and average miles per hour (speed perspective)
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53 Significant progress has been achieved. Between 2006 and 2008, Stonyfield reduced transportation CO2 emissions by more than 40% while also growing the business.
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54 Exhibit 5-2. Drivers of shippers' supply chain sustainability programs.
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55 illustrates the main drivers of shippers' supply chain sustainability programs, presented on a weighted basis, by driver rank (first = 3 points, second = 2 points, third = 1 point)
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