McDonalds Social Responsibility Company X is a global producer of equipment for the food manufacturing industry and has production facilities spread all over the world but concentrated in northern Europe and the United States. Currently Company X has organized its production facilities so that each one is specialized in a type of equipment and that facility produces equipment to ship all over the globe as orders are received. The spare parts for the equipment are stored at either these production facilities or at a central warehouse located in Aarhus, Denmark. There are sales and service units (SSU’s) in approximately 30 countries that are responsible for customers on a local level. Each of these companies keeps a stock of spare parts, out of necessity, but they are encouraged to keep stock levels as low as possible. All spare parts and equipment are ordered either directly from the production facility or from the central warehouse. The central warehousing of parts and equipment allows Company X to keep stock levels low and reduce working capital, thus reducing interest costs. This does, however create a need to ship these parts all over the world, often by airfreight, resulting in transport causing greater emissions than if the companies were allowed to source parts locally or keep more parts on hand and rely on ocean freight. The current distribution method, although beneficial to Company X in terms of working capital reduction and ease of manufacturing scheduling, results in high greenhouse gas emissions. Company X should review and revise some of its inventory and production policies to greatly decrease the size of Company X’s carbon footprint and save the company on transportation costs. Greenhouse gas emissions are polluting the air. It is the responsibility or every corporation to do what they can to minimize these emissions. Companies also