Carbon Footprint Supply Chain Summit

Date: 29 May 2008
Time: 09:00 - 17:30
Location: London, UK
Website: www.carbonfootprint-supplychain2008.com
Contact: Oliver Hurrey
Price: £899 (discounts available)

The Summit will also specifically look at how to:

Implement An Effective Energy Management Strategy For Transportation & Logistics

- Increasing the efficiency of your distribution routes and systems and realizing the cost and carbon benefits

- Cost-effectively implementing bio-fuelled vehicles into your transport fleet

- How load sharing can realistically be organized to maximize vehicle space and efficiency

- The benefits of local sourcing and supply on transport efficiency

- Minimizing airfreight's impact on the carbon footprint and also: Identifying Innovative Methods For Reducing Food Miles

- Finding the right balance with distribution networks and local hubs: multiple, smaller distribution centres (DCs) versus one central DC - Working with suppliers and transport operators to save food miles

- Examining impacts of sustainability and the effect on producers