Green Logistics

Making best use of that products are shipped from the same warehouse, Panasonic has transported products in consolidated cargo (transport/load of different products at the same time) in collaborating with its sales division. Under the system finalizes orders two days before the transportation, which was started in 2017, the followings have been realized: 1) allocation of a tack for the transportation one day before the transportation instead of on the transportation day, and 2) consolidated transportation of different products such as water heaters and air conditioners. As a result, the number of ordering trucks for transportation has been reduced, which has contributed to CO₂ reduction, and at the same time, actions for transportation risk have been realized. In fiscal 2025, the total number of actually ordered trucks for consolidated transportation was 4,092 trucks (108% year-on-year), whose loading rate at the same time was 41%, and CO₂ reduction effect was equivalent to 140t per year; for the subject transportation, 6.9% of CO₂ was reduced.

At the Hikone Factory of the Beauty Personal Care Division of Panasonic Corporation Living Appliances and Solutions Company, conventional truck transportation has brought on multiple challenges, such as an increase in environmental impact and longer driver hours. In order to resolve these issues, we decided on a policy to switch our means of transport from trucks to JR Freight Railway transport, conducting on-site and actual item inspections and negotiations with relevant parties at JR Kyoto Freight Terminal. In order to realize this modal shift, we needed to extend the transportation lead time by one day, so we reviewed the inventory management system and month-end delivery rules. As a result, we were able to simultaneously reduce our environmental impact and solve logistics issues.
Specifically, we succeeded in reducing both CO₂ emissions and driving time by approximately 70%. In addition, we achieved annual cost reductions of approximately 5 million yen, contributing significantly to the establishment of a sustainable logistics system.
For this undertaking we received the FY2024 Energy Conservation Award “Director-General of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy Award.”

Aiming for higher efficiency in transporting products, Panasonic is expanding its our efforts to land imported products at a port close to the target sales area in Japan. Conventionally, landing of products was centralized to a port near the West Japan Global Logistics Center (GLC) in Amagasaki City in Hyogo Prefecture, stored at the West Japan GLC, and then transported to respective locations as required. Landing the products at ports closer to the target sales areas can reduce the distance required for land transport within Japan, thereby contributing to reducing not only CO₂ emissions but also inbound and outbound deliveries between sites as well as distribution costs. In fiscal 2025, we further improved the accuracy of our efforts to land shipments close to the target sales area. We started this with televisions, which we had been working on for some time because of their high sales volumes, and also extended it to massagers, irons, recorders, portable televisions, telephones. In particular, headphones and rice cookers whose production has been transferred overseas have started to be delivered to East and West GLC and we further reduced our domestic transportation. From now on, we will continue to expand the scope of products and also further refine the projection of sales demand in various regions, optimize the stock amounts held in those areas, and expand the landing products at ports near target sales areas.