Cadbury - Case study: Fewer transport miles
Cadbury is achieving fewer and friendlier food transport
miles following a review of its UK food distribution
to embed environmental best practice and reduce
operating costs.
Five years ago Cadbury's UK food distribution was
based upon 15 warehouses spread across the UK and
an in-house fleet of over 60 vehicles covering 90% of
their radial deliveries, backed up by contracts with 63
third-party hauliers – who handled the company's full
load transport movements.
Today all of the company's food distribution is carried
out by just 5 hand picked third party hauliers and
storage principally confined to three strategically placed
warehouses.
By outsourcing all of its haulage and rationalising its
warehousing, Cadbury's expects to reduce distribution
movements for its products to about 65,000 in 2008 –
compared to 142,000 in 2002 - and avoid 4.7 million
road miles.
In addition, the company will save 7,500 tonnes of
CO2, just under half of which comes from reduced lorry
movements between its warehouses. It will also save
15% on its haulage costs.
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