Environmental Impact of using ICT in Industrial Sector: Effect of Environmental Load Reduction by using SCM techniques

We investigated the environmental impact of using ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in production and distribution management systems such as SCM (Supply Chain Management), in the food, textile, medicine, and cosmetics industries. We wanted to know how much influence the reduction of the environmental burden had when information sharing progressed throughout the food, textile, medicine, and cosmetics industries. This study suggested that the reduction of environmental loads was about 3.9 million t-CO
2
, corresponding to more than 10% of the amount of total CO
2
emissions in these industries.