The document discusses the EU-funded E-SAVE project which aims to improve energy efficiency in supply chains through collaboration, decision support tools, and automatic sensing. The project will develop tools and services to help companies monitor and reduce energy use and carbon footprints, support strategic and operational supply chain decisions, and empower consumers with product energy/carbon data to influence green demand. Expected outcomes include an energy efficiency supply chain toolset, information sharing standards, consumer engagement research, and industry best practices. The goal is more sustainable business operations and wider adoption of energy efficient practices.

1. Energy Efficiency in the Supply Chain through
Collaboration, Advanced Decision Support and
Automatic Sensing
E-SAVE
FP7-ICT-2011-7
Katerina Pramatari, k.pramatari@aueb.gr
ELTRUN, Athens University of Economics & Business

2. Rationale
• Consumer, regulatory and financial pressures on firms to
improve their environmental performance and energy
efficiency
• Wide spectrum of methodologies and first LCA tools. Yet, data
collection is based on manual data-entry and estimations
• Environmental thinking has not been integrated in ERP tools
and supply chain decision making
• Collaboration among supply chain partners under this
perspective is limited, but the first signs are there
• Limited knowledge regarding the impact on consumers
and the stimulation of green consumer demand through
innovative consumer services
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3. E-SAVE Project Objectives
Supply Chain
Decision Support
Innovative
Supply Chain Consumer Services
Energy-efficiency and
Carbon-Footprint monitoring
e-SAVE Infrastructure e-SAVE Applications
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4. Energy Efficiency and Carbon Footprint
Monitoring
• Design and develop a powerful data middleware to
automatically capture energy-use data
• Facilitate the efficient collaboration and sharing of product
life cycle and environmental performance data among supply
chain partners
• Integrate Life-Cycle-Assessment tools into ERP and supply
chain management systems
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5. Supply Chain Decision Support
• Build an energy-efficient supply chain management toolset
• Support energy-efficient supply chain design decisions
through simulation
Strategic Operational
Decisions Decisions
What if I change my
supply chain design Monitoring Energy
(e.g. replace a and CO2
warehouse)?
E.g. what is the
impact of a packaging Inventory/
change on the Routing
environmental profile
of my products
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6. Innovative Consumer Services
• Empower consumers to monitor dynamic product footprints
and energy-profiles through innovative consumer services
• Rational: What if the product energy and carbon-footprint
profile is shared with consumers? How does this affect
consumer demand?
• Example 1: Smart-phone application in-store to monitor
product profiles
• Example 2: “Environmental points” collected at the point-of-
sales
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7. The E-SAVE Technical Approach
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8. Innovation Areas
Decision Support:
• New algorithms and computational methods and simulation
models integrating energy efficiency KPI’s into production and
supply chain optimization processes
Environmentally-aware Supply Chain Collaboration:
• Ontologies, information sharing and new collaboration
processes (extending VMI, CPFR etc.)
Automatic Sensing:
• Energy profiling through association of sensor data with
unique-instance-identification information
Consumer Involvement:
• Innovative consumer services
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9. Expected Outcomes
• Energy-efficiency supply chain management toolset
• Proposed information sharing schema for energy efficiency
and carbon footprint measures in the supply chain
• Innovative consumer services, driving green consumer
demand
• Impact assessment on supply chain through simulation
• Concrete results from field trials:
– Industry adoption study
– Consumer survey results
– Best-practices guide for companies in the FMCG sector
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10. Expected Impact
Supply Chain
Design
Decision Support
Supply Chain
Operations
Decision Support
e-SAVE Energy Efficiency
Monitoring
Automatic Information
Data Capture Sharing
• Higher management efficiency of ‘energy-friendly’ and sustainable
business operations
• Ensuring wide adoption and impact at a sector level
• Innovative tools and services for an energy-efficient and low-carbon
economy
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11. Thank you!
• Find more: www.e-save.eu
• Contact us:
– Project Coordinator: Antonis Ramfos (antonis.ramfos@intrasoft-
intl.com)
– Scientific Coordinator: Katerina Pramatari (k.pramatari@aueb.gr)
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