To achieve a sustainable society, one of the most important issues is to reduce CO2 emissions from logistics. To address this issue as a company, it is essential to reduce costs in parallel with curbing CO2 emissions. To achieve this purpose, opportunities for improvement in the logistic process are identified and logistic costs as well as CO2 emissions are visualized simultaneously to encourage improvements to be made.
In addition, the effects are leveraged by rapidly spreading the improvement horizontally within the group.
The Ricoh Group is striving to reduce environmental impact by optimizing SCM (Supply Chain Management), including through modal shifts, direct delivery to each customer and improved efficiency of transportation among warehouses.
Resource-recirculating Logistics System that Integrates the Arteries and Veins of the Logistic Flows (Japan)
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- Establishment of a direct transportation system from plants to customers
- Modal shift from truck to railway and marine transportation
- Uses of reusable packaging materials
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- Establishment of a direct collection system for used products
- Expansion and improvement of infrastructure including collection centers
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Establishing an Information System to Calculate CO2 Emissions in Distribution  (Ricoh Logistics System Co., Ltd./Japan)
The amended Energy Saving Law requires shippers to save energy in physical distribution. Ricoh Logistics System Co., Ltd., is establishing an information system to calculate CO2 emissions in physical distribution. This system offers information on the distance between the starting point and the destination, weight, vehicle type, fuel used, and loading rate for each type of transportation, which are necessary to calculate CO2 emissions by the revised ton-kilo method*. The data obtained are used not only for saving energy but also for improving the physical distribution system. In the future, data obtained will be
offered to shippers, while proposals will be made for improving the physical distribution scheme.
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Method of calculating CO2 emitted in distribution activities that has been adopted under the revised Energy Saving Law. |
CO2, NOx, and SOx Emissions in Transportation by Ricoh Logistics System
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CO2 (t) |
NOx (t) |
SOx (t) |
| 2004 |
1,451.0 |
2.8 |
0.4 |
| 2005 |
1,467.7 |
2.8 |
0.4 |
| 2006 |
1,368.0 |
2.6 |
0.4 |
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