Sustainable Logistic of Raw Materials Used by a Zootechnical Firm. Focus on CO₂ Emission Reduction through the Creation of a Local Suppliers Network

Abstract:

These are days in which words such as CO₂ emissions, global warming, depletion of raw materials, climate change, etc. are terms that mean environmental and social concern to be solved for the whole world community. Nowadays, through a systemic planned management is luckily possible to improve, albeit in part, environmental criticisms in particular by acting on the efficiency of logistics flows of materials (input) of business processes. The positive benefits of systemic acting/thinking/designing are given substance thanks to a greater traceability of materials and packaging components and their suppliers, as well as a higher quality of the entire supply-chain and a significant reduction of CO₂ emissions and logistics costs. The systemic methodology (here presented via a specific case study: an Italian zootechnical firm) promotes precisely this kind of management by creating new networks in which local companies/suppliers, geographically close one another, work together to achieve economic and environmental benefits both immediate and tangible. In the end, by putting into practice the systemic methodology, it is also fostered the best use of resources already on site and the promotion of the local economy by exploiting territorial potentialities.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 779-780)
• Pages: 1785-1788
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.779-780.1785
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Clara Ceppa, Gian Paolo Marino
• Keywords: CO₂ Emission Reduction, Local Potentialities, Sustainable Logistic, Systemic Design

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