Sustainability Reporting of FedEx, DHL Supply Chain and Schneider Logistics

Running head: ACCOUNTING IN ORGANISATION AND SOCIETY
Accounting in Organisation and Society
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction:...............................................................................................................................................2
2. Reasons of providing sustainability reporting for FedEx, DHL Supply Chain and Schneider Logistics:.2
3. Evaluation of sustainability reports of FedEx, DHL Supply Chain and Schneider Logistics:..................3
4. Similarities and differences among the reports of FedEx, DHL Supply Chain and Schneider Logistics: 4
5. Conclusion:................................................................................................................................................5
References:.....................................................................................................................................................6

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1. Introduction:
Sustainability reporting helps in providing meaningful information about environmental,
economic, governance and social performance of a business organisation. This type of reporting is
significant for almost all types of business organisations operating in the global industrial sectors (Amran,
Lee and Devi 2014). The current report would focus on two aspects of sustainability reporting that
include environmental performance and social performance of the three selected organisations, which are
FedEx, Schneider Logistics and DHL Supply Chain. These organisations operate in the global logistics
industry in different nations of the world. Therefore, this report would shed light on the environmental as
well as social disclosures made by these organisations in their latest annual reports in 2017 and then they
would be compared with each other to find out the similarities and differences in their sustainability
disclosures.
2. Reasons of providing sustainability reporting for FedEx, DHL Supply Chain and Schneider
Logistics:
Sustainability reports are published on the part of three stated organisations due to the following
purposes:
FedEx:
FedEx is an US multinational courier delivery service organisation that provides crucial
information to the internal as well as external stakeholders about the different sustainability actions with
the help of sustainability reporting. Moreover, it aims to assure the success of its customers, which are
present in the global markets. The management of FedEx sees sustainability reporting as a major factor,
which enables in creating long-term values for internal as well as external stakeholders. Finally, it follows
General Reporting Initiative (GRI) for creating values related to safety, trust, respect, excellence and
reliability (Investors.fedex.com 2018).
DHL Supply Chain:
DHL Supply Chain is a German supply chain management and third party logistics service
provider, which provides reports on GRI with the goal of achieving effective standards in areas related to
safety, environmental management, efficacy, safety and governance. More precisely, DHL Supply Chain
publishes sustainability report for providing positive societal as well as environmental outcome. Hence, it
intends to take into account the different issues of business sustainability related to four important sectors.