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Objectives of the publications, reports and documents
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An improved understanding of decision tools suitable for the assessment of the impact on freight transport use of supply chain re-engineering strategies.
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An understanding of what development work on such tools will need to be addressed in subsequent work modules.
Consortium outputs on Supply chain decision tools
Abstract
The LRC helped to develop the methodology for the UK government's Transport KPI programme, which benchmarks the efficiency of road freight operations in different sectors of the economy.
Abstract
ITeLS
stands for Integrating Transport and e-Commerce in Logistics Supply
Chains and was a 3 years collaborative research programme aiming at
sustainable freight distribution.
Journal PapersAbstract
An increasing number of producers, retailers and third-party logistics
providers are interested in carrying out energy assessments of their
product supply chain. This is due to sensitivity about climate change
and carbon emissions, but also to high energy prices. This paper
presents an analytical approach developed to measure energy use in
logistics activities in product supply chains. The approach (based on
the Life Cycle Approach) quantifies energy use in transport and
logistics activities at all stages of a product supply chain. The work
has demonstrated that such an assessment approach based on the supply
chain is useful in comparing the energy use implications of different
strategies. This supply chain approach can be used to consider options
such as sourcing and distribution centre locations, transport modes,
road freight vehicle types and weights, vehicle load factors, empty
running, transport distance and the balance between consumer shopping
trips and delivery to the home.
Abstract
The
paper addresses the use of Life Cycle Assessment as a tool for
analysing freight transport activity in product supply chains.
Published works that have assessed freight transport energy use in
supply chain operations are reviewed and their results summarized. A
case study of the energy use in the supply chains for jeans sold in
both the UK and France is presented. The results of this case study
indicate that the location from which cotton is sourced can have a
major impact on the total energy used in commercial transport in the
jeans supply chain. However, overall, this has a limited impact on the
total energy used in producing and supplying jeans. This is because the
vast majority of total energy used in the supply chain is consumed
during cotton cultivation, denim production and jeans manufacture. The
work also demonstrates that the amount of energy used by consumers
transporting jeans to their homes by car can be greater than the total
commercial transport energy used in the supply chain (per kg of jeans
transported).
McLeod F. N., Cherrett T. J., Song L., (2006). Transport impacts of local collection/delivery points. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, September, 9(3), 307-317Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of the vehicle mileage incurred by
carriers and customers using local collection/delivery points (CDPs)
for failed first time home shopping deliveries compared with the
traditional carrier redelivery method. A number of key factors were
identified, including the delivery failure rate, the carrier depot
distance from the delivery area, the number of available collection
points, the preferred modes of transport used by householders and the
extent to which trips were combined with each other. The results of a
case study using CDPs in the city of Winchester, UK, indicated that
customer mileage could be reduced by over 80%, while the estimated
impact on carrier mileage was negligible. Worst-case and best-case
scenarios for the collection point delivery method were also modelled,
which demonstrated that overall mileage could be reduced by 80% or
increased by 40% depending on the assumptions made about the key
factors.
Harris, I., Naim, M.M., Palmer, A., Potter, A. and Mumford, C. (2008), Assessing the impact of cost optimization based on infrastructure modelling on CO2 emissions International Journal of Production Economics. Under Review.
Conference papers
Sanchez-Rodrigues, V., Potter, A., Naim, M.M., Schoeman, C. and Greeff, S. (2009), Diagnosis of extra distance in the South Africa FMCG retail sector Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Production Research, Shanghai, 2nd-6th August.
Sanchez-Rodrigues, V., Cowburn, J., Potter, A., Naim, M.M. and Whiteing, A. (2009), Defining extra distance as a tool to evaluate road transport performanceProceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Logistics, Istanbul, 5th-8th July.
Harris, I. and Mumford, C. (2009), Multi-objective uncapacitated facility location model for Green Logistics, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2009, Trondheim, Norway, 18th-21st May.
Harris, I., Naim, M.M., Palmer, A., Potter, A. and Mumford, C. (2008), Assessing the impact of cost optimization based on infrastructure modelling on CO2 emissions Proceedings of the 15th Working Seminar on Production Economics, Innsbruck, 3rd-7th March, Vol. 3, 151-161.
Song L., Cherrett T. J., McLeod F. N., (2009)
Solving the last mile problem - modelling the transport impacts of
collection/delivery points. Proceedings of the 88th Annual Meeting of
the Transportation Research Board
J.
Edwards, A. McKinnon and S. Cullinane (2007): Carbon Auditing Online
versus Conventional Retail Supply Chains: Issues associated with
Picking, Packing and Delivering a Robust MethodologyEuroma paper
LRN 2008*
LRN 2008*
Conference Presentations
Potter, A. (2009) Monitoring major fuel obstacles to improve fuel efficiency and accuracy, Marcus Evans Strategic Fleet and Fuel Management Conference, Johannesburg, February 2009.
* LRN 2008: A. Lyons (Eds) Logistics Research Network 2008 - Conference proceedings, Univ of Liverpool
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