Current Situation
Various levels of automation and reporting exist for tracking, tracing, and managing the environmental impact of the inventory life cycle.
Goals and Objectives
Automate life-cycle management and reporting from raw materials and product end of life for energy, fuel, water use, materials/inventory wastage/nonuse, waste management, cost, recyclability, and experience.
Technology Deployed
Hardware: Personal devices, enterprise hardware, sensors
Software: ERP, WMS/inventory, RFID, sustainability dashboards, AI, and analytics
Services: IT services, business services
Other: IoT, big data, cloud, mobile
Use Case Summary
Reduce costs by automating item life-cycle data and reporting processes for ingredients/sourcing and management (relative to areas such as energy and water usage), transportation and logistics (fuel use/carbon emission, temperature compliance), conversion (relative to how much product goes to waste via spoilage or dead stock, etc.), and final disposal/recycling.