PepsiCo UK - Case study: Fewer transport miles
PepsiCo is saving about 1 million food transport miles
per year from Britain's roads following a review in 2007
of how it transports its raw materials and finished goods.
The review led to a three-pronged strategy for achieving
fewer and friendlier food miles. Working with its key
retailers, PepsiCo is now allowing drivers to drop off
finished goods to supermarkets in a specially designed
trailer en route to collecting raw materials from potato
farms. This rationalisation of transport resources has
led to the company saving just under 300,000 food
transport miles per year.
In addition, through greater collaboration with key
retailers to share transport on mutually viable routes,
PepsiCo has been able to avoid 700,000 food transport
miles per year.
PepsiCo's approach is also being reinforced in
general by best practice as set out in FDF's 10 Point
Checklist for Greener Food Transport (pdf, 769kb). The company
therefore pays close attention to issues such a journey
planning – and uses high tech software for this – and
vehicle tyres to ensure that journeys are undertaken as
environmentally efficiently as possible.
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