Environmental Impact of using ICT in Industrial Sector: Effect of Environmental Load Reduction by using SCM techniques

Author

Origuchi, Takeshi ; Ishikawa, Atsushi ; Nishi, Shiro ; Fujimoto, Jun

Author_Institution

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.

fYear

2005

Firstpage

346

Lastpage

347

Abstract

The environmental impact of using ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in production and distribution management systems such as SCM (Supply Chain Management), in the food, textile, medicine, and cosmetics industries is investigated. The reduction of the environmental burden had much influence when information sharing progressed throughout the food, textile, medicine, and cosmetics industries. This study suggested that the reduction of environmental loads was about 3.9 million t-CO₂, corresponding to more than 10% of the amount of total CO₂ emissions in these industries

Keywords

environmental factors; information technology; supply chain management; carbon dioxide emissions; communication technology; cosmetics industries; distribution management systems; environmental impact; food industries; industrial sectors; information sharing; information technology; medicine industries; production management; supply chain management; textile industries; Companies; Energy consumption; Environmental management; Food industry; Manufacturing industries; Production systems; Supply chain management; Technology management; Telegraphy; Telephony; CO; ICT; SCM; industrial sector;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2005. Eco Design 2005. Fourth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0081-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECODIM.2005.1619243

Filename

1619243