Transportation and storage
Includes the transportation and storage of products you buy from suppliers and those you sell to customers.
GHGP reporting position:
- Scope 3 C4: Upstream transportation & distribution
- Scope 3 C9: Downstream transportation & distribution
Preferred units of measurement:
- Volume: litres, cubic metres
- Weight and distance: tonne-miles, tonne-km
- Currency: GBP, USD
Data required
Transportation emissions should be calculated in this priority order:
- Fuel-use
- Total weight.distance by vehicle type
- Total spend on fuel or service
Suppliers are unlikely to provide fuel-usage data.
Transportation data in this order of priority:
- Total volume of fuel used or
- Total weight.distance by vehicle type
- Total spend on fuel or service
- Mode of transport (eg. truck, plane)
- Weight of shipment
- Number of shipments
- Distance travelled
- Origin/Destination locations
- Dates of consumption
- Any other data, eg. purchasing data
- Assigned Segment
Not all fields may be applicable.
Who in your organisation has this data
- Supply chain/Logistics manager
- Operations manager
- Procurement team
Sources of this data
- Logistics report
- Suppliers and supplier logistics system
- Accounting, purchasing or ERP systems
Preparing the data
Preparing data in a flat file structure will allow you to add your data to Consequence quickly and get carbon footprint calculations automatically.
Template: Transportation and storage data
About Consequence.
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