Supply-chain Environmental Analysis Tool
About SEAT™
Supply chains are becoming increasingly vulnerable to energy prices and greenhouse gas emission constraints. Supply chains now span long distances and require significant use of fossil fuels and carbon-dioxide emissions to transport goods to consumers. At the same time, techniques such as lean manufacturing are keeping inventory levels low and require frequent replenishment throughout the supply chain – which can further add to the energy use and emissions, depending on the product.
The total energy use and emissions in supply chains depend on transportation modes, frequency of deliveries, and inventory levels. Significant opportunities exist for improving the energy/emissions profile of supply chains, while reducing overall cost.
SEAT™ is an interactive software tool that can help improve the environmental performance of supply chains. SEAT allows users to easily model supply chain elements – such as storage, production and transportation – from an energy and emissions perspective, and then provides powerful methods to analyze, report and explore improvements to the environmental performance of any supply chain. SEAT can be used for detailed analysis of existing supply chains, “what-if” experiments, and comparisons of alternative supply-chain configurations.
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