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Packaging in the Sustainability Agenda:
A Guide for Corporate Decision Making
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Purpose
The purpose of this document is to help transport practitioners to quantify the actual sustainability savings that they have achieved by the implementation of best practices in reference to the ECR Europe Sustainable Transport Roadmap. The roadmap has been developed with the support and input from over 40 companies and organisations in the Grocery & FMCG industry including Asda, Metro, Carrefour, Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Cadbury’s, Mars, Reckitt Benckiser & Unilever.
As part of this and other initiatives the industry has aligned behind measuring three key metrics in transportation;
o Km travelled
o Litres of fuel consumed
o Tonnes carried / lifted.
These measures have been chosen because they are simple, practical and accessible to anyone running transportation. Therefore meaningful sustainability savings can be quantified quickly and effectively without needing to refer to a climate change expert to understand the impact. A pragmatic tool has been developed to assist in quantifying these metrics and converting them into calculations of estimated CO2 savings.
Once data history for each of the metrics are in place, using key performance indicators (KPIs) you can understand the effectiveness of the transport operation. The KPI’s and metrics are designed to encourage improvement, whatever the starting point. Depending upon your own operation or level of maturity, the KPIs that will help deliver greatest impact are:
o Empty running - % of km driven that have NO product (i.e. run completely empty).
o Load fill - % of weight or cube of used.
o Avoiding congestion - % of running in non-peak vs. peak hours
Objectives
The objectives of this document are to:
o Provide a practical easy to use method of establishing, quantifying and prioritising transportation savings
o Provide a consistent method to obtain estimates of savings without the depth of detail required to support cradle-to-grave supply chain analysis
o
o Provide useful references and assumptions that can be used in conjunction with the savings method. These will enable realistic values to be used where data has been derived.
o Provide links to useful best practice references
o Provide a way for national ECRs to collect data in a consistent way to achieve local savings totals.
Jointly Agreed Growth
Download JAG Manual 2009
Household Consumption in the 27 European Union member states (EU 27) reached in 2006 over 6.6 trillion Euro, an annual 4% value growth (2.1% volume) and a 2.7 trillion Euro growth over the last 10 years.
In the Eurozone only, household's savings reached 768 billion euro a year in 2006, over 3 & 4 times the level of savings in Japan and USA, demonstrating hereby a huge potential for growth for the grocery industry.
Growing the grocery market, in a sustainable and profitable way for all, by better satisfying shopper and consumer needs is the imperative.
ECR Europe has drafted a user guide for commercial teams, the Jointly Agreed Growth Process (JAG), recommending a 3-year business plan with annual review.
A Guide for Corporate Decision Making
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Download Packaging In the Sustainability Agenda
Purpose
The purpose of this document is to help transport practitioners to quantify the actual sustainability savings that they have achieved by the implementation of best practices in reference to the ECR Europe Sustainable Transport Roadmap. The roadmap has been developed with the support and input from over 40 companies and organisations in the Grocery & FMCG industry including Asda, Metro, Carrefour, Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Cadbury’s, Mars, Reckitt Benckiser & Unilever.
As part of this and other initiatives the industry has aligned behind measuring three key metrics in transportation;
o Km travelled
o Litres of fuel consumed
o Tonnes carried / lifted.
These measures have been chosen because they are simple, practical and accessible to anyone running transportation. Therefore meaningful sustainability savings can be quantified quickly and effectively without needing to refer to a climate change expert to understand the impact. A pragmatic tool has been developed to assist in quantifying these metrics and converting them into calculations of estimated CO2 savings.
Once data history for each of the metrics are in place, using key performance indicators (KPIs) you can understand the effectiveness of the transport operation. The KPI’s and metrics are designed to encourage improvement, whatever the starting point. Depending upon your own operation or level of maturity, the KPIs that will help deliver greatest impact are:
o Empty running - % of km driven that have NO product (i.e. run completely empty).
o Load fill - % of weight or cube of used.
o Avoiding congestion - % of running in non-peak vs. peak hours
Objectives
The objectives of this document are to:
o Provide a practical easy to use method of establishing, quantifying and prioritising transportation savings
o Provide a consistent method to obtain estimates of savings without the depth of detail required to support cradle-to-grave supply chain analysis
o
o Provide useful references and assumptions that can be used in conjunction with the savings method. These will enable realistic values to be used where data has been derived.
o Provide links to useful best practice references
o Provide a way for national ECRs to collect data in a consistent way to achieve local savings totals.
Jointly Agreed Growth
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Download JAG Manual 2009
Household Consumption in the 27 European Union member states (EU 27) reached in 2006 over 6.6 trillion Euro, an annual 4% value growth (2.1% volume) and a 2.7 trillion Euro growth over the last 10 years.
In the Eurozone only, household's savings reached 768 billion euro a year in 2006, over 3 & 4 times the level of savings in Japan and USA, demonstrating hereby a huge potential for growth for the grocery industry.
Growing the grocery market, in a sustainable and profitable way for all, by better satisfying shopper and consumer needs is the imperative.
ECR Europe has drafted a user guide for commercial teams, the Jointly Agreed Growth Process (JAG), recommending a 3-year business plan with annual review.
