TY - JOUR
T1 - Dutch Logistics Service Providers and Sustainable Physical Distribution: Searching for Focus
AU - Pieters, R.
AU - Glöckner, H.H.
AU - Omta, S.W.F.
AU - Weijers, S.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - As environmental concerns becoming increasingly important to logistics service
providers, the question arises as to how they can achieve sustainable physical distribution
practices while surviving the severe competition in freight transport. This issue is
further complicated by the pressures from the many different shippers involved, public
expectations and regulating authorities. Therefore, achieving sustainable physical
distribution is definitely a wicked problem. In order to understand how logistics service
providers attempt to tackle these problems, a research study was conducted amongst
logistics service providers who are frontrunners in implementing sustainability practices
and who participate in the Lean and Green program, to promote sustainability within the
logistic chain in the Netherlands. Companies willing to participate in this award scheme,
must achieve the goal of reducing their CO2 production by 20% within a 5-year-period.
The transport market is very competitive and sustainability is just one of the many
logistical concerns that service providers must solve. Our research shows that the logistics
service providers participating in the Lean and Green scheme preferred solutions which
involved cooperative strategies over – third-parties solutions.
AB - As environmental concerns becoming increasingly important to logistics service
providers, the question arises as to how they can achieve sustainable physical distribution
practices while surviving the severe competition in freight transport. This issue is
further complicated by the pressures from the many different shippers involved, public
expectations and regulating authorities. Therefore, achieving sustainable physical
distribution is definitely a wicked problem. In order to understand how logistics service
providers attempt to tackle these problems, a research study was conducted amongst
logistics service providers who are frontrunners in implementing sustainability practices
and who participate in the Lean and Green program, to promote sustainability within the
logistic chain in the Netherlands. Companies willing to participate in this award scheme,
must achieve the goal of reducing their CO2 production by 20% within a 5-year-period.
The transport market is very competitive and sustainability is just one of the many
logistical concerns that service providers must solve. Our research shows that the logistics
service providers participating in the Lean and Green scheme preferred solutions which
involved cooperative strategies over – third-parties solutions.
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
VL - 10
SP - 46
EP - 68
JO - Han Business Publications
JF - Han Business Publications
SN - 2210-349X
ER -