Reducing Environmental Impact and Improving Efficiency with Descartes Solutions
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Key environmental benefits can be achieved through technology-enabled actions, such as eco-friendly delivery options to minimize fuel consumption, digitizing logistics to eliminate paper use, and reducing vehicle congestion.
⇨ As a leader in green delivery solutions, Descartes helps organizations meet environmental goals and enhance overall sustainability performance through their solutions.
⇨ Descartes solutions facilitate the digital transformation of customs processes by automating filing procedures, thereby eliminating traditional regulatory paperwork.
A recent study by Descartes, “Retailers: Sustainability is Not a Challenge, It’s an Opportunity”, explored consumer attitudes towards home delivery and environmental impact. The findings revealed that 50% of consumers are highly interested in eco-friendly delivery options, yet only 38% feel that retailers are successfully implementing sustainable practices. Additionally, more than 30% of consumers routinely consider the environmental impact of their online purchases—a number that increases to 42% among consumers aged 25-34. As governments ramp up environmental initiatives and consumer focus on sustainability grows, the pressure intensifies for supply chain and logistics operations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Key environmental benefits can be achieved through technology-enabled actions, such as eco-friendly delivery options to minimize fuel consumption, digitizing logistics to eliminate paper use, and reducing vehicle congestion, idling, and speeding. Additionally, multi-party collaboration can reduce delivery frequency to malls and address “empty miles” by improving shipment-to-carrier matching.
As a leader in green delivery solutions, Descartes helps organizations meet environmental goals and enhance overall sustainability performance through their solutions such as:
Routing, Mobile and Telematics: By helping to reduce fuel consumption and paper, Descartes helps reduce greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and other polluting emissions from burning fossil fuels for transportation, paper production and waste decomposition in landfills.
Transportation Management: Descartes offers technology solutions to reduce fuel consumption. These solutions consolidate shipments, optimize routes, enhance vehicle utilization, improve precision, and guide customers toward greener delivery options. As a result, drive distances are shortened, idle time is reduced, and transportation assets are used more efficiently.
Commercial and Logistics Messaging: Descartes solutions digitally transform paper-based transaction processes by managing and processing documents electronically, eliminating the need for paper. They coordinate information across multiple parties, streamlining global shipping operations to enhance efficiency, reduce handling and demurrage, and lower fuel consumption.
Customs and Regulatory Compliance Filings: Descartes solutions facilitate the digital transformation of customs processes by automating filing procedures, thereby eliminating traditional regulatory paperwork. These solutions offer filing validation and real-time electronic communication with regulatory agencies, reducing border crossing times, idling, and fuel consumption.
