SCLAA NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2014
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he SCLAA trusts our members, partners and the wider industry have had a successful and rewarding year. The SCLAA have also had a successful year, directly organising over 70 events in every State and Territory of Australia. We have also supported selected third party conferences and events and partnered with complementary Associations across Australia. We want to thank everyone for their support, feedback and suggestions with all our events during the year. We have again showed we are the premier Association for Supply Chain and Logistics professionals across Australia, with networking and industry events across a wide range of topics of interest for members. We have just held our annual Australian Supply Chain & Logistics Awards at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground. This is the 54th year of the Awards; the longest running awards program in our expansive; an industry that represents 15% of Australia’s GDP and $A201 billion per annum in revenue. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners and we look forward to our 2015 ASCL Awards which will be held in Perth. Support for the SCLAA is at an all-time high from our National Partners, as companies see the value we provide in marketing, access to prospective customers across Australia and the leverage from the SCLAA brand. We would like to thank them for their support. We would also would like to thank Corporate Partners for their continued support and attendance at events across Australia. As members will be aware, during 2014 the SCLAA delivered workshops and webinars as part of the Energy Efficiency Grant we received from the Department of Industry. All materials are on our website with two links from the home page. The SCLAA also organised special Awards for small – medium businesses, who attended a workshop or webinar and had the best implementation of energy savings measures. The National Awards were independently judged by ClimateWorks and won by Xtreme Freight who are based in Tullamarine in Melbourne. Chief Executive Officer and owner Amanda O’Brien attended an SCLAA energy efficiency workshop in February and implemented four of the measures recommended for quick wins.
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These included: 1. Driver Induction Training – Eco Driving, showing in-house and contracted drivers how they could save diesel fuel with economical driving. This measure alone saved over $85,000. 2. Replaced roof sheeting above racking aisles with clear polycarbonate panels, meaning expensive to run halogen lights could remain off during sunny days, saving considerable electricity usage. This measure had an almost immediate payback, considering the high cost of running and replacing globes in halogen lights. 3. They went from paper picking slips in the warehouse to an affordable and quick to implement warehouse management system that optimised picking of orders for their 3PL (Third Party Logistics) clients. Not only did this save paper usage, increased speed and accuracy, but also meant that due to the increase in efficiency they could reduce their leased forklifts from four to two. This represented considerable savings each month in lease costs and energy costs. 4. Expensive to run halogen down lights in the warehouse were replaced with LED lights with high rating lumens, that provided excellent even light and one seventh of the electricity usage. The savings after including the cost of replacing old lights with LED lights saw a payback well within a year. XTreme Freight are also able to reduce their fire insurance premiums, as the LED lights cool and do not produce the known heat and potential fire sources that halogen lights are known for. Therefore the message for small – medium businesses in Supply Chain and Logistics is that they can access multiple areas of savings and with small outlays, can achieve paybacks very quickly. It is actually a no brainer, especially with lighting. Some SME’s have replaced their older and less effective clear roof panels and notice d the huge improvement and others have look at installing solar pipes, that distribute light across a wide area for even more coverage. Even in your home, replacing older lights and halogen lights with LED’s can save you considerably. Believe me I know, I did it. More details are on the SCLAA website. We mentioned in my mid-year update that there had been a huge surge of interest in the SCLAA and that our website visits has increased 38% for the first seven months of 2014 versus 2013.
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