Implementing sustainable production and shipping practices for your organization may seem like a massive undertaking, but it’s an incredible opportunity to conserve resources and save money. Many footwear and apparel brands have shifted production to focus on a more sustainable approach to fulfilling demand for consumers. By minimizing the use of resources like energy, water, chemicals, and raw materials, you can find ways to reduce processing and product costs.
Reduced Material Usage
Reducing the overall material usage is one of the first steps to ensuring sustainable footwear production. Finding a way to design footwear that requires fewer materials is a great way to improve the material usage. Additionally, you can find better raw materials to create footwear without negatively impacting the overall performance of your products. Whether you’re reducing material waste, implementing recycled material, or finding more appropriate raw materials, it’s important to find what works best for your organization.
Optimized Manufacturing Operations
What does your manufacturing operation look like? Sustainable practices are essential for manufacturing, especially with footwear. By reducing resources like energy and water usage, implementing staggered shifts for employees, and the types of products you use to create footwear, you can improve the sustainability of your manufacturing operations.
Sustainable Transportation
Green shipping services are slowly becoming more popular as organizations find way to protect the environment and their employees from any potential transportation waste. While finding alternative fuel resources isn’t reasonable for transit vehicles, you can find ways to streamline routes and optimize fuel usage for your drivers.
About Sobel Network Shipping Co., Inc.
Sobel Network Shipping Co., Inc. is an international freight forwarder committed to simplifying the shipping and logistics processes of your organization. When you partner with Sobel, we enable your organization to respond to global opportunities, connect with new suppliers and customers, and leverage creative shipping solutions that optimize your global operations. Sobel works in industries like footwear and apparel to provide simplified shipping solutions for your organization. Contact Sobel today to learn how we can help you.
