LOGISTICS & DISTRIBUTION
To successfully contribute to reducing our total carbon footprint, we take measures to streamline our logistics and distribution flows.
This requires close co-operation through the entire supply value chain - from purchasing to delivery. We apply forecast driven planning through the sales and procurement phase before proceeding to logistics. This helps us to avoid surplus stock and thus contribute to more sustainable distribution.
PRODUCT TRANSPORTATION
Transportation of our products includes all transport between suppliers in our supply chain, incoming transport from main suppliers to our warehouse and outgoing transports from our warehouse to customers. Our aim is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from transport activities contributing to climate change. By selecting the right mode of transport, we can achieve lower emissions. Therefore, we prioritise sea transport as it is considerably more climate and environment friendly than road transport. Through careful logistics planning and use of co-freight possibilities, we can minimise the environmental impact of transportation of our products.
EFFECTIVE WAREHOUSE SYSTEM
By adopting sustainable warehouse logistic strategies, we try to achieve a significant reduction of time and costs required to perform logistics activities and to increase the environmental performances of our logistics systems. We use automated order picking and integrated digital solutions for more precise deliveries. This results in a reduction in returns which reduces our transport footprint.
PLASTIC REUSE
In our environmental strategy we have identified plastic recycling and reuse as one of our goals. With a focus on plastic packaging we try to find new sustainable opportunities for its usage and to rethink the role of plastics in our operations. Our ambition is to use different types of plastic, that are suitable for further recycling. We also see it as our duty to carefully inform our suppliers about our requirements for plastic packaging. Today we use plastic bags with 50% recycled content for garments produced in our own production facility and CMT production. As a necessary measure we have implemented a process for the reuse of plastic by collecting plastic bags and reusing them at CMT production. According to our calculations, this can lead to a CO2 saving of 420 kg per year.
