IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/veagro/320413.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Green logistic cost management in Southern region of Brazil

Author

Listed:
  • Engelage, Emanuele
  • Borgert, Altair

Abstract

This study analyses the practices of green logistic and costs management in an agroindustry in the southern region of Brazil. Interviews with a semi-structured script, follow-up of internal processes and inquiries on websites, in management reports and account plans were conducted, for analyze the company's adherence to the 84 practices identified in the literature and organized into nine components, identify other practices not listed, verify the cost elements linked to these practices and how the company manages these costs. The results indicate that the company uses about 83% of the analyzed practices, with the inclusion of six not mentioned in the literature. For practices not introduced or partially used, potentialities and ways of improvement have been verified. The component with the lowest adherence is green marketing. The loading and unloading, packaging, storage and green production have 100% of the practices used by the company, even if partially. However, for the green transport has an adherence of 95.8% (23 of the 24 analyzed). We identified 70 cost elements, many of which exist regardless of ecological practices, but are affected by them. To manage them, the company performs comparative analysis through an integrated information system that tracks data at analytical levels. Some information is entered into the system in isolation and others can be computed from the following accounting period. Many practices are carried out without the perception that they are socio-environmental actions, but their analysis and monitoring can serve as a basis for strategic decision-making and for the realization of sustainable marketing, including the preparation of the Sustainability Report, which the company intends to disclose in the future. In addition, the results serve as a guide to other companies, even if from different segments, by favoring the understanding of the theme and the existing possibilities and providing indications of how to execute them.

Suggested Citation

  • Engelage, Emanuele & Borgert, Altair, 2022. "Green logistic cost management in Southern region of Brazil," Agroalimentaria Journal - Revista Agroalimentaria, Centro de Investigaciones Agroalimentarias, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Universidad de los Andes, vol. 27(53), March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:veagro:320413
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.320413
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/320413/files/Articulo_4_Engelage-y-Borgert_R53.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.320413?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Ciliberti, Francesco & Pontrandolfo, Pierpaolo & Scozzi, Barbara, 2008. "Logistics social responsibility: Standard adoption and practices in Italian companies," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 113(1), pages 88-106, May.
    2. Lai, Kee-hung & Wong, Christina W.Y. & Cheng, T.C.E., 2012. "Ecological modernisation of Chinese export manufacturing via green logistics management and its regional implications," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 79(4), pages 766-770.
    3. Jothi Basu, R. & Bai, Ruibin & Palaniappan, PL.K., 2015. "A strategic approach to improve sustainability in transportation service procurement," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 152-168.
    4. Allan P. O. Williams, 2006. "Impact of Strategies," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Rise of Cass Business School, chapter 13, pages 167-181, Palgrave Macmillan.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Alptekin Ulutaş & Ayşe Topal & Dragan Pamučar & Željko Stević & Darjan Karabašević & Gabrijela Popović, 2022. "A New Integrated Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model for Sustainable Supplier Selection Based on a Novel Grey WISP and Grey BWM Methods," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(24), pages 1-20, December.
    2. Sandberg, Susanne & Sui, Sui & Baum, Matthias, 2019. "Effects of prior market experiences and firm-specific resources on developed economy SMEs' export exit from emerging markets: Complementary or compensatory?," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 489-502.
    3. Zhang, Feng & Jiang, Guohua & Cantwell, John A., 2015. "Subsidiary exploration and the innovative performance of large multinational corporations," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 24(2), pages 224-234.
    4. Onyema E. Ofoegbu, 2014. "The Role of Knowledge Management on Knowledge Management Perfomance: A Case Study of Some Nigerian Banks," Journal of Management and Strategy, Journal of Management and Strategy, Sciedu Press, vol. 5(2), pages 53-62, May.
    5. Bhardwaj, Chandan & Axsen, Jonn & Kern, Florian & McCollum, David, 2020. "Why have multiple climate policies for light-duty vehicles? Policy mix rationales, interactions and research gaps," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 309-326.
    6. Marius Lux & Wolfgang Karl Hardle & Stefan Lessmann, 2020. "Data driven value-at-risk forecasting using a SVR-GARCH-KDE hybrid," Papers 2009.06910, arXiv.org.
    7. Hrabrin BACHEV, 2010. "Framework For Analisis Of Agrarian Contracts," Management Research and Practice, Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 2(1), pages 39-66, March.
    8. Hyeseon Choi & Nash Jett DG. Reyes & Minsu Jeon & Lee-Hyung Kim, 2021. "Constructed Wetlands in South Korea: Current Status and Performance Assessment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-19, September.
    9. Christine Schleupner & P. Michael Link, 2007. "Potential impacts on important bird habitats in Eiderstedt (Schleswig-Holstein) caused by agricultural land use changes," Working Papers FNU-138, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Jun 2007.
    10. Monirosadat Hosseini & Seyyed Morteza Hashemi Toroujeni, 2017. "From Conventional to Technology-Assisted Alternative Assessment for Effective and Efficient Measurement: A Review of the Recent Trends in Comparability Studies," English Literature and Language Review, Academic Research Publishing Group, vol. 3(5), pages 35-45, 05-2017.
    11. Minkkinen, Matti, 2019. "The anatomy of plausible futures in policy processes: Comparing the cases of data protection and comprehensive security," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), pages 172-180.
    12. Mihaela Păceşilă & Sofia Elena Colesca, 2020. "Insights on Social Responsibility of NGOS," Systemic Practice and Action Research, Springer, vol. 33(3), pages 311-339, June.
    13. Mohsin Malik & Salam Abdallah, 2019. "Sustainability Initiatives in Emerging Economies: A Socio-Cultural Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-19, September.
    14. Rahman, Shams & Subramanian, Nachiappan, 2012. "Factors for implementing end-of-life computer recycling operations in reverse supply chains," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 140(1), pages 239-248.
    15. Gonzalo Wandosell & María C. Parra-Meroño & Alfredo Alcayde & Raúl Baños, 2021. "Green Packaging from Consumer and Business Perspectives," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-19, January.
    16. Yu, Wantao & Ramanathan, Ramakrishnan & Nath, Prithwiraj, 2017. "Environmental pressures and performance: An analysis of the roles of environmental innovation strategy and marketing capability," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 160-169.
    17. Begoña Garcia Mariñoso & Izabela Jelovac & Pau Olivella, 2011. "External referencing and pharmaceutical price negotiation," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 20(6), pages 737-756, June.
    18. Fan Xiao & Zhi-Hua Hu & Ke-Xin Wang & Pei-Hua Fu, 2015. "Spatial Distribution of Energy Consumption and Carbon Emission of Regional Logistics," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(7), pages 1-20, July.
    19. Daniele Crotti & Elena Maggi, 2023. "Social Responsibility and Urban Consolidation Centres in Sustainable Freight Transport Markets," Italian Economic Journal: A Continuation of Rivista Italiana degli Economisti and Giornale degli Economisti, Springer;Società Italiana degli Economisti (Italian Economic Association), vol. 9(2), pages 829-850, July.
    20. Jorge Mota & António Moreira & Alexandra Alves, 2021. "Impact of Export Promotion Programs on Export Performance," Economies, MDPI, vol. 9(3), pages 1-16, September.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:veagro:320413. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ciulave.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.