Case Study: Cardinal Health achieves ambitious sustainability goals and real-time supply chain visibility with FourKites

How Cardinal Health Uses FourKites To Drive Big Sustainability Goals

Cardinal Health, a global distributor of pharmaceuticals and medical products serving more than 140,000 locations, faced pandemic-driven disruption and shifting market demands as it pursued a “cognitive supply chain” to improve inventory flow, demand management and sustainability reporting. To achieve that, Cardinal Health partnered with FourKites to deploy real-time supply chain visibility combined with machine learning and analytics across its vast network of suppliers and carriers.

FourKites delivered a visibility platform and sustainability dashboard that automated emissions tracking and load-level data collection, turning tasks that once took a week into minutes and surfacing metrics like 11.55K total GHG emissions, 27.8K loads and 13.33M miles traveled. FourKites also helped Cardinal Health shift carriers (98% of shipments on SmartWay carriers as of Spring 2022), improve mode switching to intermodal, and capture per-load carbon details (e.g., 3.24 MT CO2 examples), enabling executive buy-in and measurable progress on its Scope 1–3 sustainability goals.

Cardinal Health

Karen Betancourt

Vice President Logistics