Beiersdorf : Tackling our Transport Emissions

In my role, every day is different and filled with both exciting and challenging tasks. My main responsibility as a Supply Chain Sustainability Manger is to decarbonize our supply chain. Here, we look at our emissions from our production centers, third-party producers, and logistics. Within this, I put a special focus on our transportation emissions. Globally speaking, there are only very few low-carbon solutions in the transportation sector, such as biofuels. Zero-carbon solutions, like eTrucks powered by 100% renewable electricity, are not quite there yet.

In the search for new ways to achieve a decarbonized supply chain, I collaborate daily with colleagues from operations, procurement, and external suppliers who offer new and innovative logistics concepts. What I have been working on in the past months is to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from sea shipping, which is crucial to our transportation network. We ship various products on global trade lanes, where goods travel around the world, crossing oceans - for example from Europe to the Americas, South Africa, the Middle East, Thailand, and Australia. All our logistics services are handled by third parties, which makes them scope 3 emissions.