Oct 23 2024 - Continental Automotive has received the Sedex Sustainable & Responsible Supply Chain Award for 2024 in China. We were presented with the ‘Sedex Best Practice Award for Environmental Contribution of the Sustainable and Responsible Supply Chain’ for our hydrogen logistics and transport management system. This pilot project was implemented at the Changshu plant of the Continental group sector Automotive. Sedex (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange), a prominent supply chain management platform, introduced this award category to felicitate and recognize businesses and individuals in China for their contributions and innovations to drive social and environmental sustainability in supply chains.
Continental China wins Sedex Award
Our winning project has been developed by the supply chain management team of the Continental group sector Automotive in China, which worked along with suppliers to build an entire transportation ecosystem that runs on hydrogen-powered vehicles. This results in far lesser consumption of fuel (hydrogen), with consequent benefits in the form of lower emissions and higher efficiency when compared to traditional modes of transportation used earlier.
In addition, the implementation team has leveraged digital tools including dashboards and visualization, loading truck tools and IoT devices to optimize transportation routes and models. Correspondingly, this has not only achieved success in reducing the transportation hours and distance, but also increased the utilization of hydrogen trucks to 100 percent.
With the end goal of reducing carbon footprint, our China automotive supply chain management team adopted a co-creation model to implement the pilot project, which has successfully helped in reducing carbon emissions by approximately 50% percent (jointly). This completes the proof of concept and preparation that is needed for future expansion of this system in China, as well as at other Continental locations across the world. This project marks the first long-term implementation of a hydrogen-powered truck project globally for the Continental group sector Automotive.
