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Companies operating within the present global environment have understood the importance of corporate social responsibility and integrated it within their business activities. Most Global organizations adopt fair trade or environmental sustainability initiatives along with the development of organizational philosophy that provide adequate representation of its obligations and responsibilities towards the communities they impact and the earth as a whole. Corporate social responsibility has also become important due to the awareness generated within society with the advancement in communication technology leading to extensive social networking connecting People across continents. This has resulted in companies becoming extremely conscious of the image of the organization as well as the brand and has led them to adopt practices which help in enhancing the image of the organization as being socially responsible and compassionate to the needs of society. The number of ways large corporations can reduce environmental impact is many and this is one area where many solutions can be implemented across the board. Most of these can be implemented without major changes in any organization. Recycling of manufacturing waste is topmost for manufacturing organizations and responsible disposal of effluents. Packaging needs to be recyclable, minimal in size and made of environment-friendly materials. Use of chemicals needs to be minimized by every organization. Reduction of carbon footprint by using energy efficiently, switching to more environment-friendly resources for transportation using battery-powered vehicles for example, with alternate renewable sources like solar power for electricity inputs to reduce the load on the grid and protect the environment. Many corporates are already following most of the required environmental protection norms with L'oreal taking the lead in the segment and hopefully, others will follow suit shortly.

Loreal has declared the achievement of sustainability within every process with minimal impact on the environment of the product manufacturing and marketing as an important organizational mission it intends to achieve. The company has adopted the mission of providing desirable products without harming the environment by minimizing environmental impact through pollution and emissions. This has been achieved by implementing changes within every process within the organization to create a beautiful environment for all within society and not only the consumer of the product. The company has implemented a model of sustainability by ensuring that

the design and sourcing are innovated in a sustainable manner

That with less use of resources more is created by maximizing utilization of resources to produce in a sustainable manner

to create a sustainable network by partnering with and every process and involving all peoples to ensure the development is sustainable

To encourage living sustainably by sharing information and empowering all internally and externally introduction of means in methods for a more sustainable lifestyle.

The company is committed to making beauty a sustainable business along with making sustainability itself beautiful and attractive for all to be universally adopted as a way of life. The vision of the company is implemented across every process from research to operations, the marketing process to communicate with the consumer and also extends to educating the consumer on the importance of environmental protection and environmentally friendly products and packaging.

The company has exhibited absolute commitment towards minimising environmental impact by conducting an in-depth analysis of the environmental impact of its products and processes for 2 years in great detail. This was achieved through involvement of all internal and external stakeholders with extensive feedback from across the world to ensure accuracy as well as an unbiased opinion in understanding the impact and being able to formulate and effective plan to minimise environmental impact and address sustainability challenges effectively. The commitment has achieved exceptional results with the company gaining leadership in environmental initiatives within the segments.

The organization makes sure it's logistics activities are environmentally friendly by adopting within the transportation process all the sustainability measure it has committed to of ensuring that innovation, development, production, and living will be sustainable. It has involved less than truckload partner in achieving sustainable transportation model by optimal planning strategy and involvement of partners and people for assistance to successfully achieve the sustainability goal. Loreal achieved this within freight transportation by teaming up with best-in-class careers to perfectly execute the plan on a regular basis by devising the perfect strategy to optimize resource utilization by minimising route duplication. The system was made more environmental friendly by introducing reusable plastic pots instead of cardboard boxes to reduce carbon footprint when optimising utilisation of the tracks by strategic manipulation of roots and stopover and minimising time spend at every stopover by optimising the unloading and pick up of plastic totes at each location.

the transportation optimisation required extensive collaboration within the logistics which was based upon extremely effective communication and teamwork without which it is not possible to achieve optimization of transportation with multiple deliveries and stopovers and when the trucks perform multiple tasks of delivering and picking up return items. It also resulted in minimizing the use of corrugated material and elimination of line haul charges leading to cost optimization of the entire process. This converted to significantly lower lead times resulting in increased profitability and turnover. The overall result of an optimized transportation process is exceptional customer service which helps improve the brand image with an increase in profit through optimal utilisation of resources along with meeting the sustainability mission of the organization.

The logistics carbon footprint of the organisation is greatly reduced due to using plastic totes which are reusable for up to 20 to 30 time over a period of several years providing benefits in reduced cost and carbon footprint. This also eliminates the use of corrugated cardboard boxes which are not recyclable. the maximum utilisation of transportation results in minimising duplication of routes for trucks with reduced carbon emission and minimal utilisation of fuel helping to optimise utilisation of natural energy resources while minimising emission.

The company is able to save money to the environmental initiatives to the logistic activities due to the plastic totes being reusable resizing in saving up to dollar 40,000 annually as the cost of the plastic tote is dollar 10 only providing an average of 20 to 30 uses. Consolidating delivery points by pulling centrally located. Within certain area helps to implement don't skip services for closely located delivery points by creating collaboration between the center to pull inventory from each other or a Central location servicing all nearby centers. This results in reduced lead time with better delivery speed saving linehaul charges up to dollar 50,000 annually.

Almost all large world-class business enterprises today take their social responsibility seriously and strive to pay back to society or the world at large by taking up their favorite cause. This is a wonderful trend which needs to be stressed in the media to encourage every organization to take up a cause at their own level. Loreal has taken an initiative to go green and minimize environment footprint by adopting various environment friendly procedures such as recycling for raw materials and recycling of its waste materials as also, reduction in use of harmful chemicals, switching of its packing box to 100% recyclable to save trees and reduction in box size, as also reduction in weight of the packing of the product to optimize space utilization during transportation while optimizing load size due to reduced weight of product.

The company Loreal since implementing sustainability initiatives has exhibited exceptional commitment towards achieving sustainability within every process by adopting it as an important mission of the organisation with overall implementation not only across the processes in the organisation but also taking upon itself responsibility for involving people and partner who collaboration to extend the initiative across the globe through all consumers and network partners. It has created extensive awareness of the importance of environmental protection and sustainability as a major goal for every business organization. The recommendation I would have for loreal International to be more environmentally friendly in terms of logistics would be to introduce use of more environmentally friendly electronically powered vehicles for transporting the products and implementation of an optimal inventory management system with extensive linkages of each center to ensure that truck capacity is optimally utilized at every point within the transportation process