To achieve a sustainable society, one of the most important issues is to reduce CO2 emissions from logistics. To address this issue, 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, and CO2 emissions are visualized simultaneously to encourage improvements.
In addition, the effects are leveraged by rapidly spreading the improvements horizontally within the Group.
Environmental impact will be further reduced through efforts for optimizing the Global SCM (Supply Chain Management) giving priority to
such efforts as improvement of cargo-carrying efficiency, modal shifts, and direct delivery to customers.
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 - Reduce CO2 emissions from logistics by 1% or more over the previous year (by the basic quantity unit).
We established a system to obtain data on CO2 emissions during transportation in Japan from transport information, and put this system into operation in fiscal 2006. In fiscal 2008, the area for visualization using the system was expanded to cover transportation
among bases such as ports and airports in different countries. As a result, logistics information between bases is linked with
information on CO2 emissions and we can now consider cost reductions and CO2 emissions reductions at the same time, which will work to further accelerate improvement.
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We will promote not only direct delivery to each customer and modal shifts but also improvement which is expected to lead to higher logistics efficiency, to realize the best condition for the entire Group on a global scale.
As for information on CO2 emissions, efforts will be promoted to collect information in Ricoh's business area outside Japan.
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