Integrate transportation management with Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
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Business value
A sustainable transportation management solution can help companies reduce their carbon footprint by optimizing routes, reducing fuel consumption, minimizing empty miles, and increasing the use of lower-emission transportation modes. Companies can achieve better visibility, control, and automation over their transportation operations. By reducing fuel consumption and carbon emissions, companies can minimize their environmental impact and play a part in combating climate change. Furthermore, by demonstrating a commitment to sustainability, companies can improve their brand image and attract environmentally conscious customers.
Feature details
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management integrates with Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to offer a sustainable transport management solution that calculates carbon emissions.
System integration
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability empowers organizations to accelerate sustainability progress and business growth by bringing together a set of environmental, social, and governance capabilities across the Microsoft cloud portfolio plus solutions from our global ecosystem of partners.
The transportation management (TMS) module for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management integrates with the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability using REST APIs. This allows data to flow between the two systems seamlessly, enabling organizations to track sustainability metrics alongside their other business processes.
Carbon emission calculation
By using the route data from TMS, Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability offers a variety of data models and services that can help organizations calculate and analyze transportation-related carbon emission. The route data can be used to calculate emissions from different modes of transportation, including cars, trucks, planes, and ships.
Route planning
After Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability returns the calculated emissions for each mode of transportation, you can compare them to determine which mode emits the least carbon dioxide. Use the TMS rate and route workbench to choose the most eco-friendly route based on the emissions calculation or choose the mode of transportation with the lowest carbon emissions.