Sustainable Logistics in the Circular Economy

Purpose can help to optimize logistic processes and to comply with sustainability requirements...

Technology can help to make sure that companies embark on a journey for a more sustainable reverse logistics approach

Logistic processes have a huge impact on the sustainability of a supply chain. The key challenge is to streamline logistic processes in order to become more sustainable and to balance sustainable shipment efforts with the service levels consumers or business partners expect. It is all about optimzing routing, storage, movement, packaging and tracking and tracing of items and products. Smart Technology can help to maximize the use of resources, such as equipments, packaging material, space, time and people. Companies must focus on reverse logistics practices, which focuses on the process of returning goods from the consumer or user to the point of origin for replacement, refurbishment, recycling, redistribution or clean disposal. All of this helps to ensure compliance and to comply with sustainability requirements. Technology will help to make sure that companies can manage their responsibilities for a greener, safer and more sustainable logistic chain that includes all involved business partners. Especially in a circular economy approach it is vital to guarantee transparency, visibility, sustainability and efficiency along the logistic chain. Sustainable driven logistics will help to optimize routing, packaging, storing and reuse of products and will help to enhance brand awareness by the end customers. The circular economy will have positive influence on logistics in many areas.

🌎 Share resource for transportation, storage and overall distribution

🌎 Reduce waste by further standardizing on packaging and handing units

🌎 Give end customers the opportunity to return goods for proper reuse, recycling or dematerialization

I believe it is a time to revolutionize the way we do business. It is time for a Purpose-driven Wellbeing Economy. But to achieve this goal we need to rethink how we (as customers) shop, buy and handle products during their lifecycle. We need to push companies to offer options how to reuse, refurbish ore recycle products. What do you think?