Supply chain emissions software
Improve the data behind your Scope 3 emissions
Understanding your emissions across your supply chain often depends on information held by the suppliers you work with. VerdaMetric’s supply chain emissions software gives you a direct way to collect carbon information from suppliers and improve the data behind your Scope 3 calculations.
Gather supplier-specific information, monitor data quality and use supplier responses to build a better picture of emissions and reduction activity across your value chain.
Get closer to the data behind your supply chain emissions
Calculating supply chain emissions can be difficult when you don’t have the information you need from suppliers. Without primary data, organisations may initially need to rely on spend-based estimates and other secondary sources.
VerdaMetric’s supply chain emissions software provides a practical way to engage suppliers and request carbon information directly through public supplier surveys, without requiring every supplier to become a platform user.
As better information becomes available, you can progress towards more supplier-specific calculation methods, improving the evidence behind your Scope 3 footprint rather than relying on the same assumptions year after year.
Key capabilities
Identifying the suppliers contributing most to your value chain emissions, track engagement coverage and link suppliers directly to the relevant Scope 3 activity records.
Collect emissions, revenue, reduction targets, product footprint information and supporting documents through a branded surveys that suppliers can complete without an account or licence.
Assess the calculation method available for each supplier and progress from spend-based estimates towards activity-based and supplier-specific data as better information becomes available.
Use reported supplier emissions and revenue to create supplier-specific intensity factors for relevant Scope 3.1 calculations.
Check whether emissions and revenue reported by a supplier cover the same organisational boundary, flagging potential mismatches before the information is used.
Accept supplier revenue in multiple currencies and convert it using annual average rates for the relevant reporting period.
Focus engagement where it matters
Engaging every supplier in the same way isn’t always the best use of time. Some suppliers will have a much greater influence on your value chain emissions than others.
VerdaMetric’s supply chain emissions software ranks suppliers by emissions, giving you a way to identify where engagement could make the biggest difference. Suppliers are linked to their relevant Scope 3 activity records, with coverage tracking showing how much of the supply chain is represented.
Views can also be focused on relevant Scope 3 categories, including purchased goods and services, capital goods and upstream and downstream transport.
Collect carbon information directly from suppliers
Once you’ve identified where better supplier information is needed, VerdaMetric gives you a direct way to request it.
Branded supplier carbon surveys can be sent by the platform or shared directly by your organisation. Suppliers don’t need an account, licence or training to respond.
The survey can collect Scope 1, Scope 2 and upstream Scope 3 emissions, reporting periods, revenue, reduction targets, cradle-to-gate product footprints and supporting documents. Suppliers can save their progress and, importantly, state when they don’t yet measure the information being requested.
This makes it possible to engage suppliers at different stages of their carbon journey rather than limiting data collection to those that already have mature reporting processes.
Improve the way supplier emissions are calculated
Better supplier engagement should lead to better calculations, not simply more data.
VerdaMetric’s supply chain emissions software provides a progression through different Scope 3.1 calculation methods, from screening-level spend data through to supplier-specific information.
Depending on the data available, calculations can progress through spend-based, hybrid supplier intensity and activity-based methods, through to product footprint data or supplier-specific allocated emissions.
The platform records the appropriate method for each supplier and keeps a justification where a different approach is selected, providing a clearer record of how the calculation methodology has developed.
Use supplier-specific data in your Scope 3 calculations
Where suitable supplier data is available, VerdaMetric can use it to improve the calculation of purchased goods and services emissions.
Reported emissions and revenue can be used to create a supplier-specific intensity factor, replacing an industry-average factor for that supplier within the current reporting year.
Before supplier data is used, boundary checks assess whether the emissions and revenue provided relate to the same part of the supplier’s organisation. Potential mismatches are flagged, reducing the risk of using information that doesn’t represent the intended reporting boundary.
Revenue can also be submitted in multiple currencies and converted using annual average rates for the relevant reporting period, keeping supplier intensity figures comparable.
Take supplier engagement beyond data collection
Engaging suppliers isn’t only about improving this year’s carbon footprint. Their own reduction plans can also affect your future Scope 3 emissions.
Supplier reduction commitments collected through VerdaMetric can feed into the Reduction Planner and sit alongside initiatives within your organisation.
This makes it possible to account for planned supplier action when considering the longer-term direction of your Scope 3 emissions and wider carbon reduction roadmap.
From estimates to better supply chain insight
Improving supply chain emissions data rarely happens all at once. It develops as suppliers engage, better information becomes available and calculation methods improve.
VerdaMetric’s supply chain emissions software gives you a way to manage that progression: identify where supplier engagement matters most, request information directly, improve the methodology behind your calculations and carry supplier commitments into future planning.
Rather than treating supplier engagement as a one-off data request, it becomes part of an ongoing approach to improving and managing Scope 3 emissions.
