Green and Sustainable Logistics

Green and sustainable supply management and logistics processes and practices have increasingly become a fundamental requirement in overall business operations and management. Businesses are now to provide, adhere to and make available corporate social responsibility (CSR) charters as well as be cognizant of the various legislations, local and global affecting and influencing sustainable and green business.

Governments, businesses, and society are now demanding that the environment must be protected and existing processes generating, for example, greenhouse gases with associated damage to our planet are to be aggressively phased out over globally agreed timescales and replaced by much more friendly methodologies for energy creation and deployment.

The existing business process requires to be examined by adopting a green and sustainable supply chain and logistics to identify where costs and efficiencies can be streamlined.

Understanding what is meant by green sustainable logistics and procurement practices is a prerequisite of business operations; strategic, operational, and legal, and is of paramount importance that this is the case.

The course will finally contrast what can be titled green and what could be titled sustainable, end objective nevertheless to provide an environmentally friendly and compliant logistics service.

In this interactive 5-day course the delegates will holistically examine the main principles and practices of sustainable and green logistics, learning and understanding what these are then deploy lessons learned in analysing where using the approach can have a beneficial impact on a business.

Day One: Logistics Role In Business

• Corporate social responsibility and Legislation

• Prime Directive: 7Rs

• End-to-end Logistics constituents

• Introducing green and sustainable practices

• Green logistics defined

• Environmental logistics defined

Day Two: Sustainable Practices

• Strategic importance

• Dominant Lean

• Dominant Green Practices

• Dominant Sustainable practices

• Differences between green and sustainable supply chain practices

• Examples of sustainable workplace business practices

Day Three: Responsible Green Supply Practices

• Green purchasing/ Rethinking your materials

• Reusing waste or by-products/ Circular supply chains

• Green packaging/ Cutting back on packaging

• Processes Redesign

• Transport optimization/ Green transportation/ Minimising airfreight

• Green Manufacturing

• Green warehousing

• Technology development (IoT/ Digitization/ AI/ Robotics/ Materials Engineering/ 3D printing)

Day Four: Responsible Supply Management

• Implications

• Considerations

• Create a responsible policy

• Life cycle costs and management

• Availability and cost of “green alternatives

• Gradual implementation schedule

• Staff training

• Programme benefits

Day Five: Implementing A Green Supply Management Programme

• Apply a responsible strategy

• Identify people and resources

• Invite key suppliers and staff

• Translate responsible expectations

• Integrate sustainability criteria

• Products/services selection

• Programme Benefits