Friday, May 8, 2015

Sainsbury’s software saves 500,000 liters of fuel – DuurzaamBedrijfsleven.nl

Paragon Software saves the British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s fuel and reduces CO2 emissions. The transport management software optimizes the daily logistics.

The Paragon software helps supermarket chain Sainsbury’s in the efficient scheduling of daily transports. The store carries products from nineteen distribution centers to 527 supermarkets and 276 smaller shops. Because of the logistics operation of four centers to optimize whole, the company has in three years more than 500,000 liters of fuel. Thanks to fewer transport kilometers CO2 emissions in that period went down by 1.4 million kilograms.

Through better planning weekly 2,000 fewer trips made by empty vehicles. Although the average distance traveled per driver decreased by 3.8 percent, productivity is 8 percent higher.

The British supermarket chain Morrisons has long successfully using Paragon software. The latest report from the British climate organization Carbon Disclosure Project calls both Sainsbury’s and Morrisons as leaders in the field of reducing CO2 emissions by transportation optimization.

In the Netherlands, Albert Heijn is working to reduce its transport kilometers using robots . In a new distribution deal that everything optimally, making the same freight in fewer trucks to transport.

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