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Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers.
Supply chain management spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption (supply chain). One of the problems is where does the chain end and where does it begin.
Supply chains are critical links that connect an organization’s inputs to its outputs. Traditional challenges have included lowering costs, ensuring just-in-time delivery, and shrinking transportation times to allow better reaction to business challenges. However, the increasing environmental costs of these networks and growing consumer pressure for eco-friendly products has led many organizations to look at supply chain sustainability as a new measure of profitable logistics management. Once that is resolved then what aspect do you optimize? In this case, we will consider minimizing the carbon (carbon dioxide) footprint.
A carbon footprint has historically been defined as the total set of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by an organization, event, product or person. However, calculating a carbon footprint that conforms to this definition is often impractical due to the large amount of data required, which is often costly and time consuming to obtain. A more practical definition has been suggested and is gaining acceptance within the field. This new definition measures a carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) for typical greenhouse gases such as Methane and Carbon Dioxide.
Researchers at the University of Surrey have invented a new process to make bespoke coatings that could one day reduce the ‘drag resistance’ of ships and aeroplanes and thereby lower fuel consumption.
The coatings have textures that could reduce the carbon footprint of the transport industry by lowering the drag of moving through air or water. In turn, vessels will consume less energy in propulsion.
The team of physicists at the University of Surrey is now collaborating with six companies through funding from an EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Account (KTA). The project is developing ways for industrial manufacturers to use the process to create novel coatings to decorate household goods.
Using their simple, low-cost process, it is possible to create plastic coatings with small bumps and ridges in sizes ranging from less than a millimetre to a couple of centimetres. With the right design, this texture will reduce the drag forces when large vessels pass through air or water.
Wardle High School in Rochdale is reaping the benefits after splashing out on the latest energy management equipment from t-mac Technologies Ltd.
The energy management specialists installed sub-metering and energy analysis software to enable the school to monitor the energy consumed by its swimming and hydrotherapy pools, and to identify the impact of using pool covers on its energy costs.
t-mac is providing energy management software to monitor the electricity, gas and water used by the pools. So far it has shown that by using covers the school has reduced the energy consumption of its pools by approximately 25 per cent with estimated savings of around £10,000.
Lisa Wilkinson, business development director for t-mac Technologies, said: “Sub-metering helps organisations to manage their energy consumption as it allows users to gain information on energy costs without delay. A key benefit of sub-metering is being able to identify day and night energy profiles for selected activity areas and highlight potential saving opportunities.”
t-mac Technologies Ltd. has launched its new virtual product enabling businesses with existing third party equipment and systems to benefit from t-mac software.
The virtual t-mac software works independently with any hardware enabling businesses to run t-mac’s innovative software suite with existing systems for the first time.
As the UK Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) comes into force, Mike Hogg, general manager of leading commercial gas supplier Shell Gas Direct, discusses how facilities managers can benefit from a more thorough understanding of their energy consumption.
The introduction of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) is ushering in one of the biggest changes in energy management the UK has seen for many years. The new regulation, which came into place on 1st April 2010, is a positive development, both as a key driver for the reduction of global CO2 emissions and also because of the impact it could have on the relationship between businesses and their energy profiles.
As a gas supplier, we have long been keen to improve our customers understand patterns of consumption. Monitoring energy use is the first step towards managing it and making informed procurement decisions. It’s here that the CRC holds an opportunity for the UK’s major energy users.
The fact that entry into the scheme is governed by an organisation’s electricity usage, means more gas-intensive sectors could be forgiven for believing this is less relevant to them. This is a misconception and businesses should check whether they qualify, even if gas represents their main energy resource.
Indeed, despite the CRC’s apparent focus on electricity as the main route to making emission reductions, gas should be considered as an important area which could yield cost-effective reductions for a business.
A new white paper commissioned by npower urges businesses to act now in order to protect themselves from future energy risks.
Financial, legislative, and reputational risks associated with business usage of energy will be increasing, according to the white paper published this week, which encourages businesses to prepare for these energy risks. The enquiry was commissioned by energy supplier npower and comes from the London School of Economics.
“Our aim in commissioning the white paper was to reveal the risks energy poses to businesses, show how they are likely to change in the future and ultimately, how organisations can manage these risks,” said David Cockshott, head of industrial and commercial markets at npower.
The white paper follows statistics from the latest npower Business Energy Index, which showed that businesses rank energy as posing a greater risk to them than health and safety, or credit and security. They scored energy as six out of 10 in terms of level of risk it poses, in contrast to the highest risk, which was legislation, scoring 6.7 out of 10.
Board-level consideration
To address these concerns over energy, the white paper provides a guide to current energy risks and forecasts how they will progress in the future. It concludes by urging businesses to ensure energy is a board-level consideration and to control their exposure to risk by working in a collaborative manner internally to combine the energy management and procurement processes.
“One of the key areas we help to develop in our work with businesses is the integration of energy management and procurement within the organisation,” said Cockshott. “We are committed to assisting both departments in developing a collaborative strategy to manage energy consumption and purchasing, as both are intertwined and one affects the other.”
The white paper discusses five main risks for energy management: continued upward trend in energy prices, increased volatility in energy prices, new price risks from carbon regulation, reputation risks from carbon regulation, and increasing regulatory and technological complexity.
Camfil Farr is the world leader in air filtration and clean air solutions. The company differs from competitors in its approach, producing products that can deliver a tangible reduction in energy consumption and carbon emissions.
Camfil Farr gained certification to the environmental management system standard ISO 14001 in 2000. Through the continued application of careful energy management, robust monitoring and measurement of energy consumption and waste streams, Camfil Farr has continued the journey and led by example by being the first UK manufacturing company to achieve certification to the energy management system standard BS EN 16001 in July 2010.
More recently Camfil Farr has become the first organisation in the world to be awarded the BSI’s Kitemark in Energy Reduction Verification (ERV). Download the article from BSI here.
“Independent certification will ‘rubber stamp’ us as a trustworthy and truly sustainable business which hugely benefits the industry we work in. Since a core part of Camfil’s business is selling energy saving filters we felt it was crucial for the organisation to be seen to be practising what it preaches!”
Managing Director
Bill Wilkinson
THE recent Treasury Spending Review announced that the CRC energy efficiency scheme was tobe simplified to reduce the burden on businesses, with the first allowance sales for 2011-12 emissions now taking place in 2012 rather than 2011.
The CRC energy efficiency scheme, formerly known as the carbon reduction commitment, is a mandatory energy saving and carbon emissions reduction scheme for the UK. The scheme is intended to raise awareness of energy consumption in large organisations, especially at a senior level, and to encourage changes in behaviour and infrastructure. It applies principally to large businesses and public sector organisations. The scheme originally required organisations to buy allowances based on their level of electricity use in April 2011. Depending on the performance of the organisation, the money would then be returned with a bonus or penalty in October 2011.
Nicola Tiffen, a partner in Hay & Kilner’s commercial property unit, said: “This delay in the requirement to purchase the allowances until April 2012 is generally good news, although the allowances must still cover emissions from 2011-2012 onwards. There is also a likelihood that participants will have to buy two years’ worth of allowances, some retrospectively for 2011- 2012 and some going forward to cover 2012 – 2013.