A study for establish and certify ISO14001 for Logistics Warehousing Industry
- Focused on‘D’ company case -
Choi, Sung Il
Department of Shipping & Port Logistics
Graduate School of Marine Finance and Logistics
Korea Maritime And Ocean University
(Directed by Professor Gwon, Mun Gyu)
Logistic business has been changed a lot in the globalized competitive environment of the 21st century. It is being established and developed to eco-friendly logistic system, to minimise hazardous for environment and save energy for limited resources. Recently, despite the fact that “Eco-Friendly Logistic” is emerging as an important issue in logistic business due to environmental regulations, it is realized that there are no certain investigation and countermeasure in domestic market. These conflicting and changing between economic and environmental requirement, A harmonious system has become demanded and the ISO 14001(Environmental Management System) standard proposed by the international Organisation for Standardization (ISO) has become a mandatory
requirement due to many changes in international/domestic market.
In this research, identify the concepts and characteristics of environmental management and environmental management system and certification system. As a result of social interest and strengthened regulations, there is a tendency to introduce environmental management systems not only in the manufacturing industry but also in the service sector and public services, however, the warehousing business in the establishment and certification process of the environmental management system of the warehousing business. The purpose of this research is to investigate the process of establishing and certifying the environmental management system through the case of “D” company, and to propose more efficient introduction method and improvement plan of performance.