LOGISTICS PROCESSES
In an activity such as distribution, in which logistics processes are decisive, we seek to reduce the environmental impacts associated with transporting the products we sell at our stores.
The backhauling programme includes a return route from the stores to our distribution centres to collect goods from our suppliers. Between 2011 and 2021, the use of this route helped us avoid 109.6 million km in travel and the emission of 100,500 tonnes of CO2e.
The fronthauling project has our suppliers stopping by our stores to deliver goods on their return route to their facilities after delivering products to our distribution centres. In 2021, we shaved off around 140,000 km and avoided the emission of 124 tonnes of CO2e.
In Colombia, the project to transport non-palletised goods between our suppliers’ facilities and our distribution centres helped shave off 1.1 million km in 2021 (the equivalent of 1,878 tonnes of CO2e). Ara has extended its by-truck project, which uses trailers to transport goods between distribution centres and the most distant stores, to all the regions where it operates, thus avoiding 2.6 million km and the emission of 2,000 tonnes of CO2e.
The Group aims to reduce CO2e emissions by 5% (for every thousand pallets transported) between 2020 and 2023. In 2021, the reduction was 3.7%.