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Carbon-to-Serve

Carbon-to-Serve is a methodology and toolset to measure the carbon emissions of a supply chain and identify opportunities for reduction in emissions, waste and cost. The methodology complies with recognised standards such as PAS2050 and ISO 14040.

The carbon emission calculations use specific company data, industry benchmarks and carbon emission factors from official government publications and other recognised sources.

Each process in the supply chain is assessed to identify the carbon driver(s) and allocate the carbon emissions. The carbon emissions for each process are normalised to a common unit of measure, such as gCO2 per kg of product, to allow direct comparison across the supply chain.
The underlying principles of carbon drivers and allocation are comparable to cost drivers and allocation in Cost to Serve.

Carbon-to-Serve uses visual mapping to represent the supply chain by categorising each element to one of three types; activity (production, value-adding processes), movement (transport, handling) or inventory (temporary storage, warehouse stock). It uses colour coding and vertical alignment to plot the carbon build up for each element across the supply chain.

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Carbon-to-Serve is a registered trademark for LCP Consulting Ltd

References

1. Braithwaite, A and Knivett, D (2008), Evaluating a supply chain’s carbon footprint – a methodology and case example of Carbon-to-Serve, Logistics Research Network (LRN) Conference 2008. LCP Consulting Thought Leadership

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