Shapley Value Simulation for Allocating Ghg Emission Savings Due to Logistics Pooling within Ecr Cooperations

For a couple of years companies – and especially logistics transportation networks – are compelled by a number of new developments: Next to cost reduction efforts also considering ‘green thinking’ within logistics processes is of higher interest – constituting a critical success factor. Although companies are already legally forced to report sustainable – especially environmental – performance in certain extend voluntary reporting is important to several stakeholder groups. Currently, a couple of organisations work on standards for how to calculate and report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. If logisticians pool their transport capacities – as e.g. within Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) cooperation networks – not only costs but also GHG emissions can be saved (‘eco-efficiency’). But up to the present the question of how to allocate such savings has widely been neglected. Thus, this paper provides a first problem solution on how to allocate GHG emission savings by the help of cooperative game-theory’s SHAPLEY value concept. Therefore, operations research and computer aided simulation seem helpful.