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Looking for additional ways to reduce carbon emissions from your company's supply chain? It may be time to inquire within - specifically within the four walls of your warehouses.
Although your warehousing network may not expend the same kinds of energy as your carriers or in-house fleet, its facilities are still prime contributors to your logistical carbon footprint, not to mention full of opportunities to go greener.
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With that in mind, it might be time to consider measuring your DCs' environmental impact by running some warehouse carbon footprint calculations such as the following:
Anatomy Of A Warehouse Carbon Footprint Calculation
Used as starting point to help companies make better, more environmentally friendly decisions, warehouse carbon footprint calculations have multiple components -- and many questions and helpful hints that go hand-in-hand with them. In addition to key operational details such as total square footage, head count and hours of operation, these include:
* E-Grid Emissions: Which grid is the facility being measured located in? Helpful hints: A piece of industrial equipment or electrical appliance operating at a facility in one area of the country is going to account for considerably different levels of greenhouse gas than that same appliance or forklift operating in another, because each of the 26 sub-regions within our country's three power grids emits very different levels of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour. These levels range from 819 to just over 2000.
* Material Handling Equipment: How many pieces of equipment does the facility use? Are they powered with propane or electricity? Are they stand-up or sit-down? And what is each piece of...