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Transportation
Transportation and Business Travel
Pegatron is committed to reducing GHG emissions resulting from its use of the global transportation infrastructure. This applies to all uses of transportation by Pegatron both in the movement of its products and employees.
For the movement of goods, this policy applies to:
  • Raw materials, components, and parts being transported through our supply chain to manufacturing facilities where finished goods are made.

  • Finished goods transported to consumers around the world:
The employee travel policy applies to:
  • Normal commuting to and from work
  • Business travel:
    - Sales personnel travelling to customer sites, sales expositions and sales meetings
    - R&D personnel travelling to manufacturing facilities and research conferences
    - Operations and management personnel visiting manufacturing and supplier facilities and attending   conferences
    - Senior personnel travelling around the world or for senior-level meetings.
In order to conserve energy used in transportation and to increase efficiency in this sector, our transport and business travel green policy has set the following initial goals.
 
Transportation of Goods
Pegatron has a goal of continuous improvement and conducts reviews annually to improve energy efficiency in all areas. We continuously seek to improve packaging and product design to make our products and their packaging lighter, thus requiring less transport fuel. A supplier's geographic location and the associated costs of transport are taken into account when selecting suppliers. We review our supply chain annually to identify means of moving goods more efficiently and at less cost
-such as evaluating rail transport over truck transport, or using sea cargo versus air cargo where appropriate.

As this area is new to us, our current goal is to gather baseline data on energy and kilometers per unit transported. The baseline data will be used to calculate our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions impact. This analysis will aid us in identifying other helpful metrics for monitoring progress.
 
Employee Transportation
We have identified two main areas of focus for employee transport:
  • Normal commuting to and from work
    In Taiwan , more then half of our employees use public transport to reach work places at our factories and headquarters. Pegatron also operates shuttle vans to transport its employees within the factories. We will measure the GHG impact of our employees' normal commuting travel, and establish baseline data. In Suzhou , shuttle buses run more than 1600 trips per day.
  • Business-required travel
    • Pegatron has already implemented many years of strategies such as using video/audio conferencing and web-based presentation s to replace face-to-face meetings, using online monitoring interfaces to manage supplier s' data and other information.

    Pegatron will establish metrics to determine its current GHG impact, and the impact on current operations of all business travel. Metrics to be gathered include: kilometres travelled by various divisions to conduct business by mode of transport (rail, air, automobile, etc.); cost of business travel; purpose of business travel. With those metrics, Pegatron plans to enhance the use of the current and the following strategies to reduce GHG emissions associated with business travel by using the following techniques:
    - Increasing the use of video conferencing to replace face-to-face meetings
    - Increasing the use of web-based presentations to share information
    Further developing online monitoring interfaces, enabling Pegatron personnel to gather data from suppliers with fewer in-person visits Replacing gasoline-fuelled vehicles with hybrid, bio diesel, or other alternative fuel vehicles for company-owned vehicles.

Once the baseline data for energy use during transportation and associated GHG impacts for all employee travel is established, Pegatron plans to start with a modest goal of reducing GHG emissions impacts.

 

 
 
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