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Featured Partner: Armada
^ARMADA.
There's a better way.
ABOUTARMADA
Armada is a gLobaL suppLy chain and
Logistics management company based
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that creates
innovative, fuLLy integrated suppLy
chain soLutions that deLiver competitive
advantages and improve business
performance for its cLients.
Armada beLieves that there's a better
way to run gLobaL suppLy chains—a
better way rooted in simpLicity,
transparency and extraordinary service.
By deveLoping partnerships and
coLLaborating with its cLients and trad-
ing partners, Armada is changing the
way suppLy chains are managed
by creating smaLLer, smarter and more
agiLe networks that adjust to the
evoLving demands of the marketpLace.
Armada offers suppLy chain pLanning
and engineering design services,
warehousing and ReDistribution
programs, and transportation soLutions
aLL executed through digitaLtechnoLogy
pLatforms.
Armada Logistics
645 ALpha Drive
Pittsburgh, Pa. 15238
412-406-5765
www.armada3pL.com
186,000
gallons
FUEL SAVINGS
WHYSMARTWAY?
Armada's corporate phiLosophy incLudes a commitment to buiLd sustainabLe
programs that enabLe a positive impact on its cLient's suppLy chains, organization,
stakehoLders and the environment. SmartWay has aided Armada in its abiLity to
achieve those sustainabiLity goaLs.
CARRIER COLLABORATION
More than 10 years ago, Armada joined SmartWay with a goaL to identify carriers
that share its sustainabiLity goaLs. Armada now requires all its carriers to participate
in SmartWay.
The foundation of Armada's carrier program is moving products in the safest,
most economical and fueL-efficient manner, which invoLves strategic thinking and
pLanning. As part of its invoLvement with SmartWay, Armada uses the program as
a pLatform to engage with its SmartWay carriers and share ideas on technoLogies
and strategies that can heLp reduce emissions whiLe meeting its deLivery
objectives.
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS: MAXIMIZE TRAILER UTILIZATION,
REDUCE DWELL TIME, AND ACHIEVE EFFICIENCY GAINS
Working with its carriers, Armada operates a traiLer tracking system that has
heLped its cLients achieve severaL gains in the efficiency of their suppLy chains.
As part of this system, Armada works with its shipper cLients to estabLish minimum
order quantities (MOQs) that can heLp maximize and reach fuLL capacity on its
carrier's traiLers.
Using MOQs, Armada can accurateLy measure traiLer utilization rates and Look
for opportunities to maximize capacity and optimize shipping routes. Armada
aLso uses compLiance records on MOQs as a metric in Point of SaLe systems
and to anaLyze fueL consumption and emissions benefits. For exampLe, in 2020,
Armada's anaLyses of its MOQ compLiance records show annuaL reductions, when
compared to 2019, of more than 186,000 gaLLons of dieseL fuel and four million
pounds of carbon dioxide. As weLL as the efficiency benefits, establishing MOQs
aLso can heLp achieve significant cost savings.
Other successful shipping strategies include intermodal conversions that have
increased Armada's average intermodal utilization year over year, and tighter
transportation schedules that have decreased dweLLtime and unnecessary
idLing. Additionally, to help further reduce dead-head miles, Armada is currently
employing a digital freight matching system.
EPA-420-F-21-047 | July 20211 SmartWay Transport Partnership | epa.gov/smartway	(continued)

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Featured Partner: Armada (continued)
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE: IMPLEMENTING SCIENCE-BASED
TARGETS AND REDUCING ITS CARBON FOOTPRINT
In 2019, Armada set science-based targets (SBTs), which are goals a business
develops to provide a clear route to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
SmartWay's carrier data were essential in helping Armada develop these SBTs.
Armada's SBTs aim to reduce its company-wide GHG emissions by 40 percent
per short ton of goods outbound by 2030. Because Armada's company-wide
emissions consist primarily of the supply chain or "Scope 3" support it provides to
shippers, Armada's carrier base contributes about 94 percent of its carbon foot-
print. As a result, Armada places particular emphasis on using high-performing
SmartWay carriers to help the company meet its targets.
WHAT'S NEXT
Moving forward, Armada looks to its relationship with SmartWay as a valuable
resource as the company remains focused on serving its customers in the most
sustainable way while strengthening its carrier relationships. Armada will continue
to partner with SmartWay by implementing new and innovative strategies that
will be integral to meeting its goals to reduce its carbon and other GHG emissions
reductions by 40 percent in 2030.
40% 12030
GHG Reduction
Year Goal

Please visit the SmartWay website at www.epa.gov/smartway
for more information about our Partners.
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