When choosing a business partner for outsourcing your various business needs such as logistics or warehousing, do you look at whether or not the business has environmentally sound practices?
With the desire to protect creation increasing for many businesses, the idea of being “green” is becoming more prevalent. Here’s the great part. By partnering with a business that has green practices, you are not only helping the environment, you’re potentially saving yourself some “green” as well.
How is this possible? Don’t a lot of environmentally friendly practices like solar power cost a lot of money?
At On Time Logistics, we utilize a growing number of methods that are environmentally friendly and in turn make it easier for us to pass on savings to customers. Keep in mind that while many of these methods are related to our business, they can translate easier to more sustainable practices in your home.
Optimizing Vehicle Operating Costs for Efficiency
What makes running a fleet of vehicles so expensive? It’s the gas and maintenance, right? At On Time Logistics we focus on keeping as low a gas mileage as possible. For one, we maintain all of our vehicles for top performance. It’s kind of like that saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” By maintaining our fleet, we are able to reduce many large, emergency repairs.
We also make sure we use the wisest routes possible to get where we’re going. Not only the shortest, but also the ones that we know won’t be as bogged down in traffic or construction. Even if a route is less mileage, if we are sitting in traffic just wasting gas most of our day we are wasting our resources and yours.
Paper savings
We dispatch our couriers’ orders on their phone instead of printing out each order for every delivery. That saves trees but it also saves printing costs. As a company, we are striving to reduce overall paper consumption with an increase emphasis on recycling the paper we do need to use.
We also offer online service ordering through our website otlusa.biz. We plan to enhance this service in the future as our customers’ needs change.
Energy savings
Building maintenance and energy conservation are two things that we focus on intently. Daily checks within the warehouse areas are done and much of our office equipment is set to energy-saving mode when not in use. This allows us to offer lower warehousing costs compared to our competitors and it helps protect our warehousing clients’ belongings better, thus saving them money.
What ways does your business save money? How does this translate to cost savings for your company?