SmartWay8
Transport Partnership
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
SmartWay Helps Lead Kimberly-Clark to Greater
Efficiencies and Reduced Transportation Costs
Company Profile
G§ Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly Clark
global health and hygiene leader
serving 1.3 billion consumers in
more than 80 countries fea
turing such global brands as
Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex,
Pull-Ups and Depend. In the U.S.,
Kimberly-Clark contracts with
a base of roughly 100 carriers -
including its Core 7," a group of
seven large truck carriers that
move about 80 percent of the
company's product by volume
via intermodal, over-the-road,
LTL and package truckloads.
Contact
Stelios Chrysandreas
Transportation Manager
(865)541-7349
schrysantakcc.com
Number of Employees: 56,000+
worldwide
SmartWay has helped the
freight sector reduce 14.7 million
metric tons of carbon dioxide
(equivalent of removing 2.88 mil-
lion cars off the road), 215,000
8,000 tons particulate matter,
while saving 1.5 billion gallons of
fuel (a savings of $3.6 billion in
fuel costs).
Company Message
"At Kimberly-Clark, we see SmartWay as both good environmental policy and
good business. The transportation strategies that SmartWay recommends
are saving us fuel, lessening our carbon footprint, and making a big difference
in bringing us closer to our sustainability goals." - Stelios Chrysandreas,
Transportation Manager.
Why Kimberly-Clark joined SmartWay
Kimberly-Clark is committed to sustainability in all areas of its business,
including the delivery of its products. Joining SmartWay presented K-C's Corporate
Transportation team with a great opportunity to more actively engage and
expand its role in the company's sustainability plans.
Upon joining SmartWay, in 2006, K-C's most immediate objectives were to improve
communications and gain efficiencies among the fleets it hires.
SmartWay Focus
Through SmartWay and supporting sustainability practices K-C adopted several programs
that are effectively increasing intermodal usage, reducing length of haul, total miles,
I empty miles, as well as wait time and idling at shipping and receiving docks.
I One of K-C's first actions as a SmartWay partner was to modify its Carrier Assessment
I Program and ask carriers - its Core 7 and all others doing business with the company -
I tojoin SmartWayand begin the process of benchmarking and reporting their environ mental
performance. Data generated by SmartWay's freight management tools served as a
catalyst for opening up a positive dialogue between K-C and its carrier base, which in
turn has contributed to a number of freight efficiency and productivity gains.
Today, 99% of K-C's miles and 96% of its shipments are made with SmartWay carrier
partners. The performance-based data that SmartWay carriers generate continues
I to be a key factor and is reviewed on a regular basis to help K-C in managing and
improving the performance of its transportation network.
I Early on in its partnership with SmartWay, K-C also made a significant new investment
in its Transportation Management System (TMS) software, enabling the company to
improve freight mode selection compliance and increase intermodal utilization due to
the tool's ability to select between the various intermodal options.
I Further efficiency improvements have been achieved through K-C's "Network of the
Future" - a new Distribution Center (DC) footprint - which places new DCs close to
intermodal ramps, also reducing length of haul. Company DCs also provide comfort
stations for the drivers so they don't have to sit in their trucks idling.
I Other programs in place are designed to convert customer deliveries to drop & hook
and to implement product compression technology in the personal care and tissue
businesses to increase cube utilization.
U.S. EPA SmartWay | EPA420F09-033 | www.epa.gov/smartway
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SmartWay8
Transport Partnership
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
SmartWay Helps Lead Kimberly-Clark to Greater
Efficiencies and Reduced Transportation Costs
Benefits & Results
Since K-C joined SmartWay in 2006, the company shows that it has expanded intermodal utilization by 86 percent, going
from 42,141 loads in 2006 to 78,502 loads in 2010.
Since the redesign of its distribution centers and network, as well continuous improvements in its sourcing strategies, K-C
estimates that it has reduced total miles by over 22 million.
Through the growth of intermodal, the company estimates that it has saved more than 66 million gallons of diesel fuel,
reduced C02 emissions by more than 730,000 tons, and saved money in the process. In addition, by reducing the average
length of haul for customer deliveries from 603 miles in 2006 to 516 miles in 2010, the company reduced its diesel fuel
consumption by about another 8 million gallons.
With nearly 100% of its shipments on SmartWay carriers, the company improved its SmartWay "shipper score" to 1.22, up
from 1.05 when it originally joined, representing a 16% improvement. Shipper scores are the EPA's calculation of a carrier's
combined C02, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter emissions, and reflect the environmental performance of carriers
participating in SmartWay.
And finally, since 2006, K-C has increased customer drop & hook deliveries from 34.1% to 40.1% and has improved its average
unload time at customers from 1.55 hours in 2006 to 1.34 hours in 2010.
Looking Ahead
As Kimberly Clark looks to the future, it will continue its practice of contracting with carriers that are strong environmental
performers as demonstrated by their participation in SmartWay. K-C will work with carriers that are lagging to find ways to
improve their performance through the technologies and logistics management solutions SmartWay encourages. Working
together through SmartWay, K-C and its carriers have made great progress in collaborating to meet sustainability goals and
the company looks forward to future gains.
U.S. EPA SmartWay | EPA42OFO9-O33 | www.epa.gov/smartway
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