Environmental Impact
- Transportation types (air, ground, sea)
- Transportation distances (local, national, international, transcontinental)
Economic Savings
Cost of shipping
Time savings
Shipping introduces a lag time between document completion and document receipt. This adds directly to the duration, and thus cost, of a project.
Economic Costs
- Training/convincing staff to use electronic systems
- Implementing data security measures as necessary
- Adding additional computing capacity (i.e. greater bandwidth use)