Who controls logistics emissions? Challenges in making fragmented supply chains environmentally sustainable from a logistics service provider's perspective
Författare
Redaktör
- Britta Gammelgaard
- Günter Prockl
- Aseem Kinra
- Jesper Aastrup
- Peter Holm Andreasen
- Hans-Joachim Schramm
- Juliana Hsuan
- Malek Malouf
- Andreas Wieland
Summary, in English
Purpose
The purpose of this article is to explore the environmental impact of Logistics Service Provider (LSP) activities in the light of increased customer attention and fragmentation of the industry. We try to answer the question, to what extent the LSPs can actually monitor
the environmental impact of logistics activities in the supply chain?
Design/methodology/approach
The methodology of this paper is a literature review, a qualitative interview survey, and three case studies. A framework on sustainability challenges in supply chains derived from the literature is used to structure and analyze the findings.
Findings
Our findings reveal that despite ambitious environmental schemes communicated by several LSPs, LSPs exert very little control over the actual emissions created from their transport operations. Furthermore, it is clear from this study that any real interest in
environmental solutions that impact the cost and time requirements from customers of logistics services are not yet a reality.
Research limitations/implications
This paper implies that LSP sustainability cannot be investigated in isolation if a company does not manage proprietary resources.
Practical implications
Our findings imply that environmental policies between different LSPs appear similar, but in practice differs, which stresses the importance of follow-up control by environmentally aware logistics service buyers.
Originality/value
This paper represents a novel approach as to how LSP environmental policies should be viewed.
The purpose of this article is to explore the environmental impact of Logistics Service Provider (LSP) activities in the light of increased customer attention and fragmentation of the industry. We try to answer the question, to what extent the LSPs can actually monitor
the environmental impact of logistics activities in the supply chain?
Design/methodology/approach
The methodology of this paper is a literature review, a qualitative interview survey, and three case studies. A framework on sustainability challenges in supply chains derived from the literature is used to structure and analyze the findings.
Findings
Our findings reveal that despite ambitious environmental schemes communicated by several LSPs, LSPs exert very little control over the actual emissions created from their transport operations. Furthermore, it is clear from this study that any real interest in
environmental solutions that impact the cost and time requirements from customers of logistics services are not yet a reality.
Research limitations/implications
This paper implies that LSP sustainability cannot be investigated in isolation if a company does not manage proprietary resources.
Practical implications
Our findings imply that environmental policies between different LSPs appear similar, but in practice differs, which stresses the importance of follow-up control by environmentally aware logistics service buyers.
Originality/value
This paper represents a novel approach as to how LSP environmental policies should be viewed.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
201-218
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the Nordic Logistics Research Network: NOFOMA 2014,
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Ämne
- Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
- Other Mechanical Engineering
Nyckelord
- environment
- logistics
- logistics service provider
- LSP
- supply chain
- sustainability
Conference name
26th Annual NOFOMA Conference, 2014
Conference date
2014-06-11 - 2014-06-13
Conference place
Copenhagen, Denmark
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-87-997433-0-8