A Study on Reduction of Business Logistics Cost through Environmentally-Conscious Logistics Activity

친환경적인 물류 활동을 통한 기업 물류비 절감에 관한 탐색적 연구

  • Choi, Jun-Ho (Department of Industrial Management Engineering, Myongji University) ;
  • Oh, Sun-Il (Department of Industrial Management Engineering, Myongji University) ;
  • Lee, Eun-Sook (Department of Industrial Management Engineering, Myongji University) ;
  • Kang, Kyung-Sik (Safety Management Laboratory, Myongji University)
  • 최준호 (명지대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 오선일 (명지대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 이은숙 (명지대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 강경식 (명지대학교 안전경영연구소)
  • Published : 2009.06.30

Abstract

As the industry develops, the amount of wastes is increasing in the economic system with various needs. As a result, the environmental problems are emerging as serious social issues and all the parties are required to make their best efforts. Among the issues proposed as the environmental issues, the logistics-related issues are exhaustion of the resources, global warming, environmental pollution, and acidification and so on. In order to respond to the environmental issues of the earth, the advanced countries are setting retrenched goals, reduction of the new greenhouse gases and accomplishment of retrenched goals by cooperation between the nations. Economic activities inevitably bring environmental problems and logistics is implementing those activities. The companies should perform the roles to resolve the environmental problems as the main cause of environmental pollution. Therefore, along with spreading recognition of social demand, the companies are required to establish policies regarding the environment and they should approach the issues from the perspective of resource circulation. These environment-friendly activities are emerging as the new source of competitiveness in the logistics field. Therefore, this study analyzes the effects of environment-friendly logistics activities on the reduction of logistics cost to reduce and resolve the environmental issues such as environment preservation, recycling and so on.

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