Multi-Modal Transport System Effects on Selection of Global Supply

UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN BUSSINESS SCHOOL | Globalization of Logistics and Supply Chain: Selection Of Global Supplier Over Local Impacts On Sustainability of Supply Chain | Key words : Sustainable Supply Chain, Multi- modal/Intra-modal Transport, Transport modes, Logistics, Operations, Sustainability, Triple bottom line | | Aqeel Iqbal | 15-Apr-13 |

This paper is conceptualizing on combination of transport modes organisation use to maintain sustainability in their supply chain by keeping the carbon foot print to minimum, this paper utilizes desk research to evaluate the impact of this approach on the organisations who prefer global suppliers over local evaluating the trade-offs these organisations need to make in order to maintain an equilibrium of sustainability in their supply chain concluding on the fact that dependent on an organisational willingness to be environmentally sustainable future most practices don’t need a choice of cost over environment but some need sacrifice of at least one to maintain sustainability. |
Introduction
This research paper is aimed to critically evaluate and answer the research question of: how selection of global over local suppliers affects organisation’s sustainable supply chain strategy while considering the impact of ‘‘multi-modal’/‘intramodal’ choice’ and what trade-offs does these organisations need do in order to achieve this? To answer this research question it is essential to address two wide areas in business literature, gaining an understand of what these areas actually mean to an organisational operational strategy: first being identification of different intramodal/multimodal transport choice used in local and global supply chains; whereas the second to critically evaluate why priority is given by different organisations to select global suppliers over local, while achieving reasoning from prospective of different Industries and organisations within those industries for the trades-off they are willing

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Figure [ 1 ]Modes of transport [ (Logistcs Cluster, 2011) ] Appendix B Figure [ 2 ] Carbon Dioxide emissions (grams per passenger-kilometre 2002) (Scotland governoment Publications, 2002) Appendix C Figure [ 3 ] Improved Triple bottom line model by [ (Carter and Rogers, 2008) ] Appendix D Figure [ 4 ] Comparison of Shipment consolidation VS sustainability [ (IBM, 2008) ] Appendix E Figure [ 5 ] Modal shifts for a sustainable supply chain by Sony (Sony Global B, 2012) “For VAIO notebook PCs, Sony has shifted to ocean transportation for approximately 30% of total shipments For numerous finished goods shipped from Shanghai, China to Japan, Sony changed from air transportation to a combination of sea and rail transportation or sea and truck transportation” (Sony Global B, 2012)