Green + Lean = Sustainability + Profitability

It’s time to integrate green into your lean practices! Since: 1. Lean is all about waste elimination and “Reduce” is a key component of sustainability, marrying the two is a no brainer!2. There is already a green lean framework that merges sustainability into lean processes, like value stream mapping. 3. There are 100/1000x more lean practitioners … Read more

It’s time to use dimensions to calculate shipping emissions, not just the weight of an item

If dimensional pricing is used by DHL, UPS, FedEx by most carriers, why don’t we use dimensions to calculate carbon emissions too? What I’ve come to realize is that since: Therefore: In order to more accurately allocate emissions, we should apply dimensional pricing to our carbon calculations. As a start we can use the 139 … Read more