Transportation sustainable logistics

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Deployment of Sustainable Logistics Optimization Incorporated Table 2 Supposed scenarios on transportation module... 

To illustrate these points, let s take a closer look at a specific industry—consumer products—and the dynamics of its nnderly-ing value network. The consnmer value chain is composed of many companies. It stretches from the consumer through a network of retailers, mannfactnrers, and suppliers. Other industries—transportation, third-party logistics firms, freight forwarders, and marketing agencies—play snpporting roles. It is not linear. Instead, it is a network of hnndreds of companies. Each company within the chain operates multiple supply chains. The industry has worked hard to be collaborative however, today few interactions are truly collaborative. They lack alignment and a win-win value proposition that can sustain the test of time. 

For the feedstock, there are logistical and sustainability concerns. Each potential biorefinery concept has specific coproduct and waste issues to consider. Transport is a general issue in this discussion. The biomass resource has to be transported to the refinery subsequently the products have to be transported to the downsdeam industry and/or the consumer. Of interest is the approach of the company Nature-Works LLC that currently operates the largest biorefinery in the United States in Blair, Nebraska. The nameplate capacity of the polymer production plant is 140,000 tons of polymer per year. Corn is the basis for the production of the bioplastic polylactic acid (PLA) in a complex multistage process. Sixty percent of its com feedstock is obtained from the local area (producers, located less than 40 kilometers from the plant). Several companies in an emergent network are now active on the Blair biorefinery campus (Wells and Zapata, 2012) reducing transportation from one industrial branch to the next one. 

Tesco took new strategy Green and sustainably initiative, reverse logistics, collaborative transport. Tesco secured the efficiently increasing transportation to RDC from a manufacturer. The modal shift is one of the results of green and sustainably initiative strategy, because the truck transport increases congestion and reduces speeds of delivery. 

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