Lecture 10

Question 1

Explain the “Triple Bottom Line” approach.

Answer 1

The Triple Bottom Line Model treats environmental, social and economical aspects equally.

Economic aspects
› Poverty
› Corruption
› ROI

Social aspects
› Employment Laws
› Society
› Education

Environment
› Pollution
› Energy consumption
› Chemicals

Question 2

Explain the three P’s of the Triple Bottom Line.

Answer 2

The Triple Bottom Line approach defines sustainability through the combination of economical success, responsibility against employees
and society and the protection of the environment.(Elkington)

Profit
› Effective and efficient products
› Transport volume
› Location and internationalization
› Cost optimization
› Ensures quality

People
› Responsibility against employees and
society
› Education / Family
› Social activities
› Healthy and secured work space

Planet
› Reducing the impact of industrial
activities on the environment
› Reduction of CO2
› Reduction of energy consumption

Question 3

Name the main drivers for sustainability.

Answer 3

› Population growth
› Economic growth and rising global flows of goods
› Increasing energy consumption and energy costs,
respectively CO2-Taxes
› Promotion of attractiveness

› Transport infrastructure as bottleneck ->
Restrictions in reliability and productivity
› Decreasing public tolerance in environmental
stress and large transport numbers
› Political and social claims

Question 4

Explain the three components of “Green Logistics”.

Answer 4

Green Transport Management

Green Warehouse Management

Green Packaging Management

Question 5

Define “Recycling”.

Answer 5

“Recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste and reprocessing the material into useful products (secondary raw
material). It has to be distinguished between the up- and downgrading of materials. Therefore there exists downcycling
(plastic waste to benches) and upcycling (euro pallets to furniture).“

Question 6

Name the three R’s of the “Green Packaging” approach.

Answer 6

Reduce - Reuse - Recycle

Question 7

Name the core components of the “TransporeonTransportation Cloud”.

Answer 7

Electronic transport allocation

Time window management

Status messages and realtime tracking

Improved work life balance

Question 8

Name the three largest pallet pool systems.

Answer 8

EPAL

Chep

Europoolsystem

Question 9

Differentiate between food losses and food waste.

Answer 9

Food losses
Proportion of food which
gets lost or spoiled before
arriving at the destination
e.g during transportation,
storage, handling or
packaging

Food waste
› Food, that is wasted,
although it is suitable for
consumption

Question 10

What are the biggest energy consumers in a self-service department store?

Answer 10

Heating

Lighting

Build materials

Cooling

Question 11

Ikea WAY “IWAY” Standards include how many general sections?

Answer 11

Fourteen

(Start-up Requirements, General Conditions, Environment, Chemicals, Waste, Fire Prevention, Health & Safety, Housing, Wages & Benefits, Child Labour, Forced & Bonded Labour, Discrimination, Freedom of Association, and Harassment, Abuse & Disciplinary Actions)