As sustainability was defined like a state of the social and natural systems, it has its own factors and indicators. You can see the scheme of factors division in the frames of the company. » Read more: Report_Team#1. Part 2.
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:
For an estimation of stability in logistics we allocate two groups of factors: external and internal. To internal we carry:
· Volume of transported production a month;
· Park of vehicles;
· Objects of transport system;
· Objects of logistical system;
· The staff, management and the control;
· Breakdown susceptibility on transport;
· Dependence on qualification and experience of the driver’s personnel.
To external we carry: » Read more: Factors of “sustainabillity in logistics”
We have developed the common factors of sustainability. According to this approach, we will assign sustainability indicators in logistics very soon. As our research area is logistics, we decided not to go into common factors division and just to define two groups: internal and external factors.
Recently our team, including Anastasiya Mangul, Sergey Piskunov, Andrey Filippov and Taisiya Sikorskaya, has had a discussion concerning the sustainability indicators. Firstly, we decided to analyze and distinguish the common sustainability factors, as our way of the problem examination is deduction. During the discussion we’ve found very informative example of company performance in the problem of sustainability. We suppose it’s rather interesting approach and good example, so here it is.
» Read more: The research process and example of “Interface”
XX century is the time of great progress in science, particularly in the production technologies. As we know it is exactly when the second scientific and technical revolution took place. This leap was caused by many events and social processes, such as Second World War, following it Cold War and the development and spreading of democracy.
The fact that humanity realized the lack of resources and our intolerable attitude to planet is not illogic.
Thus mankind faced the problem of economical usage of resources and optimization of production process. Logistical aspect of this problem is not new, but due to the world trend to integration the concern of shipping, storing and distribution became actual and universally common. That is why logistics and particularly sustainability in it are highly important issues to be analyzed.
To understand what sustainability in logistics is we’d like to ascertain what sustainability is in general. We developed the common scheme of social system functioning in the frames of biosphere (pic.1.), where “G” stands for government, “C” – for consumer society and “B” – for business, enterprise including three main parts and relations between them: “ext” means extracting resources, “mun” means manufacturing of goods, “dis” – distribution of them.
Pic.1. Scheme of social system’s subjects interconnection in biosphere
This generalized scheme illustrates activity of social systems, so you can see two-way flows of goods, money, resources and other. By creating this scheme we want to demonstrate the limitation of everything inside biosphere by its borders.
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