Comments about factors of “sustainability in logistics”

In this post we give the description of the factors resulted in the previous post.

Internal factors of sustainability in logistics:

1. Volume of transported production. Big volume of transportations, in our opinion, positively influences to sustainability in logistics, because:

• At first, terms of delivery decrease due to a lot of transported production and reduction of terms of expectation of full loading of transport
• At second, at big volumes of transportations the opportunity of rational use of park of vehicles increases;
• At third, rational use of transport park allows to supervise volumes of ecological pollution depending on volume of transported cargoes. The note: carrying capacity of transport above, than at motor transport, thus volume of ecological pollution at transport below.

2.Park of vehicles. It’s possible to allocate quantitative and qualitative aspects:

• Quantitative aspect: the park of vehicles shares on involved (hired), and own. For definition of quantity own vehicles the mid-annual need for them pays off. The quantity of own transport should not exceed 50 % from the general mid-annual need for vehicles;
• Qualitative aspect: vehicles share on import and domestic. Means of import manufacture are more reliable, more comfortable for work of the driver’s personnel, more economic at the charge of fuel accordingly pollute an environment less, but demand more expenses and complex in service. In Russia the network of maintenance service of cars of import manufacture is badly developed.

3.  Objects of transport system (garages, the parking, etc.):

• Presence of own servicing deports improve the control over maintenance of transport park in an efficient condition.
• Presence of own lay items reduces costs by rent.

4. ·      Objects of logistical system. Presence of own warehouse,

• At first, reduces the cost price of responsible storage and warehouse processing of cargoes;
• At second, increases competitiveness of the enterprise by granting to clients of wider spectrum of services of transport-warehouse logistics.

5.     The staff, management and the control. The highly skilled staff carry out the most qualitative control over transported production, administrative decisions on minimization of costs on transportation of production make.

6.     Breakdown susceptibility on transport (dependence on qualification and experience of the driver’s personnel).