Background:

Recently our environment has been plagued by the increase of greenhouse gas emission, desertification, water pollution, air pollution, ozone depletion, accelerating deforestation and soil erosion, species collapse/extinction, and the melting of our polar ice caps. Although, it is difficult to balance our environment with economic strategies, Dimerco accepts the challenge to do its part in preserving our environment while continuing to expand in the market place. Dimerco is going green.

Objectives:

• Make adjustments to the work environment to create a balance between productivity and developing environmentally-friendly accommodations.
• Identify the needs and requirements of major customers on sustainability and green initiatives.
• Offer the innovative service module to fit the green supply chain.
• Develop a methodology to evaluate the environmental damage is being deduced and how performance is increasing.

Contents:

A. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

The simplest part of going green involves reducing our usage of stationary, paper cups, chopsticks, and bottled water. Cans, bottles, and paper will be separated into appropriate recycling units. Employees will get into the habit of using non-disposable cups and eco-friendly items to eliminate waste. Additionally, looking at other opportunities such as purchasing remanufactured ink and toner cartridges not only saves the environment but it is less expensive than new cartridges. Dimerco will develop a green purchasing policy to reduce waste in the office. To help go green, Dimerco will produce durable cups and chopsticks as a gift to employees and our customers.

B. Build up Paperless and Green Working Environment through IT/IS Solutions.

One of the best ways to reduce the carbon footprint is to enhance or/and utilize the available IT solutions in order to reduce or eliminate unnecessary resource consumption. Dimerco will continuously explore a variety of methods of going green by investing in information technology, development, and application.

1.Internal Supply Chain

On August 1, 2009, Dimerco successfully deployed web 2.0 based Dimerco Value Plus System which is capable of preserving natural resources by reducing paperwork through the automation of integrated work flow and process across the Supply Chain. By automating and integrating various parts of the internal supply chain processes, from Sales, Operation, Finance and Accounting, Dimerco not only improves our operation and management efficiency, but creates a paperless working environment.

2.Partnership with Alliance, Airline/Carrier and Customers

Through Data Integration (EDI) capability and solution, Dimerco is able to exchange the shipment information/data electronically with our agent partners, airlines/carriers and customers. This information interchange optimizes data accuracy and user efficiency, it also reduces consumption of resources such as paper (e.g. fax, printer) and electricity. (e.g. email, fax machine, printer) Dimerco also participates in the e-freight project, which is facilitated by IATA (International Air Transport Association) with some of major Airlines to support this innovative, efficient, and environmentally friendly project that aims to take the paper out of air cargo supply chain process.

3.Internal Control & Policy Setup

By using the practice of one user for one workstation concept, Dimerco has established the IT Asset Procurement Policy which aims for information/data security, protection and management, as well as to classify user’s workstation entitlement based on his/her job functions/responsibilities/levels. Through this policy, Dimerco is able to allocate proper and appropriate resources to best suit the users need in their daily operations. This will ensure natural resources are being fully utilized. Along those lines, Dimerco also encourage our users to reuse and recycle whatever IT hardware (e.g. workstation, server, peripheral and etc.) that remain usable and not cause any electricity wastage.

C.Transportation Management

Having an efficient transportation management system is another optimum way to reduce the carbon footprint left by Dimerco. Through the development of dedicated service modes of transportation and network optimization strategy based on our customers’ requirements Dimerco will be able to save transportation miles and fuel reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is practiced currently through the Dimerco system. The Consolidation Yield Management (CYM) module consolidates all their shipments into one shipment resulting in reducing package and usage of space which optimizes the allocation arrangement of carriers to avoid the waste of resource and protect our environment.

D.Supply Chain Management

Efficiencies in supply chain management can be used to reduce the need for unnecessary transportation services. Dimerco is constantly growing with its customers and partners by providing time-defined international freight forwarding services as well as designing, implementing customized logistics management solutions. With our experienced logistics team worldwide and IT capability we would welcome the opportunity to better understand the customer’s unique needs and identify the strategy which the customer need for green success.

Conclusion:

As the logistics provider, Dimerco will continue to identify the needs and requirements to help our customers to offer the innovative service modules to fit the green supply chain and provide a healthy professional workplace to our employees. In the next step, we will develop the methodology to evaluate the environmentally-friendly accommodations created through our efforts of going green and keeping performance high. Dimerco will strive to become the green partner of customers, carriers, alliance and communities. Our global supply chain and logistics network and associates will develop economic green solutions for our customers and ourselves around the world.