The document provides guidance on selecting carbon accounting software, outlining key considerations such as establishing long-term goals, defining success metrics, ensuring the software provides a single source of truth for data, allows for integration with existing systems, and provides insights and reporting capabilities. It emphasizes choosing software that streamlines carbon accounting workflows, is intuitive to use, and helps turn insights into meaningful actions.
Webinar: Driving Real-dollar returns during ERP Implementations: The MDM Pers...Verdantis Inc.
In an evolving and more integrated business world, ERP/EAM implementation and consolidation has become a priority for many businesses.
While such roll outs do provide improved operational efficiencies to companies, it is possible to derive more value out of them using a business critical factor – Master data management.
This webinar will showcase how you can drive Real Dollar benefits from your ERP projects by planning for Master data management.
View this 40 minute webinar, to learn :
• Business Scenarios that necessitate the implementation of MDM
• Attributes to look out for the perfect MDM partner
• Parameters to judge the efficacy of an MDM project
• Case studies of ERP roll outs with MDM in place
Strategically manage data quality in an erp rolloutVerdantis Inc.
Many large companies with complex IT landscapes are consolidating ERP/ EAM platforms to deliver improved operational visibility and decision velocity to business.
While such roll out projects focus on aligning business requirements with ERP/EAM functionalities and configurations, many teams overlook one of the most business-critical factors - Strategic data quality.
View this 40 minute webinar, to learn :
Tactical v/s Strategic approaches to data quality in ERP roll-outs
Case studies of large ERP roll outs - winners and losers
Pitfalls to avoid in ERP/ EAM material data quality projects
10 Must Haves in an Effective Recurring Revenue Management SolutionAria Systems, Inc.
Gartner predicts The Internet of Things will grow to 30 billion devices by 2020, fueling recurring revenue streams that create billions of dollars in value. But before committing budget and IT resources to building an in-house recurring revenue management (RRM) system, seek a vendor that specializes in monetization and billing solutions.
In this new Accenture Finance & Risk presentation we explore how our Regulatory Reporting Dashboard and offerings can help clients create greater efficiencies in their financial reporting process.
For more on regulatory reporting, view the presentation "User Defined Tools": accntu.re/2qAJBaO
For more information about Accenture Finance & Risk Practice, visit bit.ly/2j2JD6X
Performance Analytics for IT Operations ManagementJade Global
ServiceNow® Performance Analytics for IT Operations Management is an easy-to-use, integrated application designed for reporting and analyzing operational performance and effectiveness in the ServiceNow enterprise cloud.
Webinar: Driving Real-dollar returns during ERP Implementations: The MDM Pers...Verdantis Inc.
In an evolving and more integrated business world, ERP/EAM implementation and consolidation has become a priority for many businesses.
While such roll outs do provide improved operational efficiencies to companies, it is possible to derive more value out of them using a business critical factor – Master data management.
This webinar will showcase how you can drive Real Dollar benefits from your ERP projects by planning for Master data management.
View this 40 minute webinar, to learn :
• Business Scenarios that necessitate the implementation of MDM
• Attributes to look out for the perfect MDM partner
• Parameters to judge the efficacy of an MDM project
• Case studies of ERP roll outs with MDM in place
Strategically manage data quality in an erp rolloutVerdantis Inc.
Many large companies with complex IT landscapes are consolidating ERP/ EAM platforms to deliver improved operational visibility and decision velocity to business.
While such roll out projects focus on aligning business requirements with ERP/EAM functionalities and configurations, many teams overlook one of the most business-critical factors - Strategic data quality.
View this 40 minute webinar, to learn :
Tactical v/s Strategic approaches to data quality in ERP roll-outs
Case studies of large ERP roll outs - winners and losers
Pitfalls to avoid in ERP/ EAM material data quality projects
10 Must Haves in an Effective Recurring Revenue Management SolutionAria Systems, Inc.
Gartner predicts The Internet of Things will grow to 30 billion devices by 2020, fueling recurring revenue streams that create billions of dollars in value. But before committing budget and IT resources to building an in-house recurring revenue management (RRM) system, seek a vendor that specializes in monetization and billing solutions.
In this new Accenture Finance & Risk presentation we explore how our Regulatory Reporting Dashboard and offerings can help clients create greater efficiencies in their financial reporting process.
For more on regulatory reporting, view the presentation "User Defined Tools": accntu.re/2qAJBaO
For more information about Accenture Finance & Risk Practice, visit bit.ly/2j2JD6X
Performance Analytics for IT Operations ManagementJade Global
ServiceNow® Performance Analytics for IT Operations Management is an easy-to-use, integrated application designed for reporting and analyzing operational performance and effectiveness in the ServiceNow enterprise cloud.
This new Accenture Finance & Risk document presents an approach to addressing the reporting demands and challenges of an evolving regulatory environment. Learn more about Accenture Finance & Risk Practice: bit.ly/2j2JD6X
Maximizing service profitability at optimized cost to serve: Next generation ...Genpact Ltd
Stock prices are rising for companies with higher services than product revenue growth, which means that every company should be looking at optimizing their service delivery model for Aftermarket Services (AMS). The proper confluence of people, process, and technology will provide next generation service and business process execution.
Identify emerging trends in defects to reduce warranty and recall
costs, maintain brand strength, and improve customer loyalty
Manufacturers, on an average, spend as high as 2.5% to 8% of their revenue on warranty costs. Best in class
manufacturers have been able to achieve warranty spends as low as 0.5%, underlining the tremendous potential for
cost reduction in business operations - from efficient process management as well as product quality improvement.
Majority of manufacturing companies limit their warranty business intelligence to historical reporting needs.
Manufacturers need robust technology that can monitor & report, provide timely alerts on critical warranty parameters,
predict warranty patterns and improve the analysis of scenarios under different warranty conditions. Presenting
Sailotech’s Warranty Analytics Solution - a rapid deployment, quick returns remedy to current business challenges.
Warranty Analytics solutions use to discover hidden trends in warranty and service records to more quickly identify the
emergence of previously unknown defects. Sailotech can transform data into insights to help you proactively address
your brand equity resulting from product defects while balancing customer satisfaction with profitability.
ASC 606 Webinar: The Impact is on Your Whole OrganizationJade Global
ASC 606 Webinar - This webinar on ASC 606 covered actionable guidance for you to ensure that your systems and processes are opportunity ready. Know more https://youtu.be/hHz6fQHxnL4 http://www.jadeglobal.com/webinars/ASC-606
How mrp system helps to reduce industrial emissionsMRPeasy
Confronting the challenges and causes of climate change and reducing energy emissions have become the main concerns of both businesses and governments. How MRP System can help manufacturing businesses with reducing emissions?
Reducing The Time And Costs Associated With Sarbanes Oxley ComplianceMichael Findling
This whitepaper will help you understand Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for IT controls are extensive and wide-ranging. No matter what aspect of database management or what database platform – Embarcadero has you covered. And you can rest assured that your existing desktop and database access controls will secure your use of Embarcadero’s tools for enforcing data standards, managing changes, and administering users and other database security controls, proper performance and capacity planning, and meeting SLAs.
In this panel discussion, you will learn how Best-in-class companies leverage collaborative Supplier Management to mitigate supply chain risk and improve overall supplier performance. The session will examine proven techniques to become "Customer of Choice" even in the tightest of supply markets by building supplier management initiatives that provides transparency, fosters collaboration, and shared risks and incentives with key suppliers.
Sales and Use Tax Process - Benchmarks and Best Practices for ManufacturersSovos
How do you stack up against your peers on other manufacturing tax teams?
As part of our ongoing Tax Tuesday webinar series, Sovos’ industry experts presented and analyzed new and unique results from a new comprehensive benchmark study from the Aberdeen Group on Sales & Use Tax challenges, trends, and solutions for manufacturing firms.
View our webinar on demand (see Slide 4 for Link) as Mark Christenson and Chuck Maniace detail how you can take a fresh look at how your business is performing compared to industry peers and learn what capabilities and approaches leaders in compliance are implementing today.
View our presentation and walk away knowing:
How your performance stacks up against your manufacturing peers
The biggest risks and tax compliance challenges for manufacturers of all sizes
How functional leaders feel about the compliance process vs. those managing the process
What is driving process-improvement and what capabilities and approaches leaders are taking
How you can successfully drive change in your organization
EzyPro has expanded its foot print with the integration of computerized maintenance management system. With this from a compliance and quality management system the scope has expanded to a productivity, problem-solving and efficiency enhancing software as a service
This presentation describes the state of Accounts Payable and uncovers the paradigm shift underway. With greater integration with the procure-to-pay (P2P) process, expect a more connected, automated, and transparent operation. Find out how the Tradeshift platform is designed for the new world of P2P.
This describes a generalised and structured approach to defining a strategy for collecting (near or actual) real time, high volume data. The appproach can be applied to areas such as Telemetry, Big Data, Smart Metering and Internet of Things implementations and operations. This proposed structured approach is intended to ensure that complexity is understood and can be appropriately addressed at an early stage before problems become to embedded to be solved. Real time situational data gives rise to situational awareness and understanding which in turn presents opportunities for effective and rapid situational decisions. Real time situational data enables greater situational visibility which means increased operational intelligence.
Learn how companies across industry verticals are leveraging ECLM to improve the creation, administration and assessment of contracts.
Our industry and ECLM solution experts cover the keys to addressing critical contracting issues such as:
Minimizing potential legal/resource bottlenecks
Increasing contract visibility of upcoming payment milestones for finance
Minimizing change controls and amendments by incorporating typical scope revisions into standard templates
We look at real customer implementation stories and hold an interactive Q&A to show how your organization can achieve a considerable ROI on an ECLM solution.
Establishing integrated end-to-end processes is a top priority for many companies. However, most have disconnected sourcing, purchasing, and accounts payable processes. This creates challenges such as decreased efficiency and reduced stakeholder satisfaction.
This report explores how building a procure-to-pay process with a well-defined strategy and governance can provide your company with the foundation to realize significant benefits such as reduced staffing levels, improved liquidity, and increased savings. To learn more about how to adopt leading procure-to-pay practices, contact us at info@scottmadden.com.
ESOLPK offers Enterprise Solution Services, Microsoft Dynamics ERP and business solutions, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
This new Accenture Finance & Risk document presents an approach to addressing the reporting demands and challenges of an evolving regulatory environment. Learn more about Accenture Finance & Risk Practice: bit.ly/2j2JD6X
Maximizing service profitability at optimized cost to serve: Next generation ...Genpact Ltd
Stock prices are rising for companies with higher services than product revenue growth, which means that every company should be looking at optimizing their service delivery model for Aftermarket Services (AMS). The proper confluence of people, process, and technology will provide next generation service and business process execution.
Identify emerging trends in defects to reduce warranty and recall
costs, maintain brand strength, and improve customer loyalty
Manufacturers, on an average, spend as high as 2.5% to 8% of their revenue on warranty costs. Best in class
manufacturers have been able to achieve warranty spends as low as 0.5%, underlining the tremendous potential for
cost reduction in business operations - from efficient process management as well as product quality improvement.
Majority of manufacturing companies limit their warranty business intelligence to historical reporting needs.
Manufacturers need robust technology that can monitor & report, provide timely alerts on critical warranty parameters,
predict warranty patterns and improve the analysis of scenarios under different warranty conditions. Presenting
Sailotech’s Warranty Analytics Solution - a rapid deployment, quick returns remedy to current business challenges.
Warranty Analytics solutions use to discover hidden trends in warranty and service records to more quickly identify the
emergence of previously unknown defects. Sailotech can transform data into insights to help you proactively address
your brand equity resulting from product defects while balancing customer satisfaction with profitability.
ASC 606 Webinar: The Impact is on Your Whole OrganizationJade Global
ASC 606 Webinar - This webinar on ASC 606 covered actionable guidance for you to ensure that your systems and processes are opportunity ready. Know more https://youtu.be/hHz6fQHxnL4 http://www.jadeglobal.com/webinars/ASC-606
How mrp system helps to reduce industrial emissionsMRPeasy
Confronting the challenges and causes of climate change and reducing energy emissions have become the main concerns of both businesses and governments. How MRP System can help manufacturing businesses with reducing emissions?
Reducing The Time And Costs Associated With Sarbanes Oxley ComplianceMichael Findling
This whitepaper will help you understand Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for IT controls are extensive and wide-ranging. No matter what aspect of database management or what database platform – Embarcadero has you covered. And you can rest assured that your existing desktop and database access controls will secure your use of Embarcadero’s tools for enforcing data standards, managing changes, and administering users and other database security controls, proper performance and capacity planning, and meeting SLAs.
In this panel discussion, you will learn how Best-in-class companies leverage collaborative Supplier Management to mitigate supply chain risk and improve overall supplier performance. The session will examine proven techniques to become "Customer of Choice" even in the tightest of supply markets by building supplier management initiatives that provides transparency, fosters collaboration, and shared risks and incentives with key suppliers.
Sales and Use Tax Process - Benchmarks and Best Practices for ManufacturersSovos
How do you stack up against your peers on other manufacturing tax teams?
As part of our ongoing Tax Tuesday webinar series, Sovos’ industry experts presented and analyzed new and unique results from a new comprehensive benchmark study from the Aberdeen Group on Sales & Use Tax challenges, trends, and solutions for manufacturing firms.
View our webinar on demand (see Slide 4 for Link) as Mark Christenson and Chuck Maniace detail how you can take a fresh look at how your business is performing compared to industry peers and learn what capabilities and approaches leaders in compliance are implementing today.
View our presentation and walk away knowing:
How your performance stacks up against your manufacturing peers
The biggest risks and tax compliance challenges for manufacturers of all sizes
How functional leaders feel about the compliance process vs. those managing the process
What is driving process-improvement and what capabilities and approaches leaders are taking
How you can successfully drive change in your organization
EzyPro has expanded its foot print with the integration of computerized maintenance management system. With this from a compliance and quality management system the scope has expanded to a productivity, problem-solving and efficiency enhancing software as a service
This presentation describes the state of Accounts Payable and uncovers the paradigm shift underway. With greater integration with the procure-to-pay (P2P) process, expect a more connected, automated, and transparent operation. Find out how the Tradeshift platform is designed for the new world of P2P.
This describes a generalised and structured approach to defining a strategy for collecting (near or actual) real time, high volume data. The appproach can be applied to areas such as Telemetry, Big Data, Smart Metering and Internet of Things implementations and operations. This proposed structured approach is intended to ensure that complexity is understood and can be appropriately addressed at an early stage before problems become to embedded to be solved. Real time situational data gives rise to situational awareness and understanding which in turn presents opportunities for effective and rapid situational decisions. Real time situational data enables greater situational visibility which means increased operational intelligence.
Learn how companies across industry verticals are leveraging ECLM to improve the creation, administration and assessment of contracts.
Our industry and ECLM solution experts cover the keys to addressing critical contracting issues such as:
Minimizing potential legal/resource bottlenecks
Increasing contract visibility of upcoming payment milestones for finance
Minimizing change controls and amendments by incorporating typical scope revisions into standard templates
We look at real customer implementation stories and hold an interactive Q&A to show how your organization can achieve a considerable ROI on an ECLM solution.
Establishing integrated end-to-end processes is a top priority for many companies. However, most have disconnected sourcing, purchasing, and accounts payable processes. This creates challenges such as decreased efficiency and reduced stakeholder satisfaction.
This report explores how building a procure-to-pay process with a well-defined strategy and governance can provide your company with the foundation to realize significant benefits such as reduced staffing levels, improved liquidity, and increased savings. To learn more about how to adopt leading procure-to-pay practices, contact us at info@scottmadden.com.
ESOLPK offers Enterprise Solution Services, Microsoft Dynamics ERP and business solutions, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
January 12, 2012 the Cortes forest petition with over 6,200 signatures was delivered to Island Timberlands and Brookfield Asset Management around the world, in Nanaimo, Toronto, New York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney and Hong Kong.
More info at wildstands.org.
Тема урока: Решение уравнений
Цели:
Обучающие:
• Дать понятие об уравнении, корне уравнения, линейном уравнении, правилах переноса слагаемых из одной части уравнения в другую, правилах умножения (деления) обеих частей уравнения на одно и то же число, не равное нулю.
• Научить применять данные определения и правила при решении уравнений и текстовых задач.
Introducing Connected Insight. A transformation analytics platform that global companies use to drive operational improvements in focus, cost, and agility for functions such as finance, HR, procurement, IT, etc. Our most common use-case is GBS/BPO expansion and optimization
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900 words required………………….
e-Procurement Business Case Development
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e-Procurement Business Case Development
A commodity product includes a series of physical substances that have basic use that could be taken from natural sources. The company we chose to write about and that has a commodity product is the Bean Company. It is a company that sells 100% organic, healthy Arabica bean coffee. The customers can purchase whole beans, already ground up beans, or in K-cup form. However, typically the company is popular for the coffee beans more so than the other variety it offers. For instance, this paper involves all activities in e-Procurement that allows a commodity product to be released in an easy way because the company uses tools such as ERP and MRP that includes transactions, forecasting, and among other challenges with these systems to create a better flow in production.
Define the elements of e-Procurement employed with the commodity supplier.
ERP/MRP system
ERP and MRP codes represent systems that a business utilizes to ensure they are coordinating their planning activities according with the production process. ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) allows the company to cover areas that include accounting and purchase ledgers, human resources including payroll and time sheets, supply chain such as stock control and purchasing, or warehouse data to manage every document. Similarly, MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning) focusses on sales, job costing, purchasing and production orders. Both are necessary in manufacturing because they facilitate upper management to locate their resources and to control inventory levels of raw material as well as final products or services. Transactions
These agreements are made between two parties, the supplier and the buyer in which they both exchange products or services that will turn into payments. These transactions can get complicated if they are not clear or if the parties have not settle their terms and conditions. Every company is responsible to be accounted for their financial records and tax reports. For instance, some of these transactions include, credits, deposits, and among other forms of payment rules to make sure each party is corresponding to their agreements. Moreover, each company has their internal control of what financial transaction are being made and one department is responsible to authorize purchases, receipts, and payments.
Forecasting
Forecasting is a vital yet demanding job in supply chain that consists of a full-time position, making sure and understanding what is needed ahead of time will help keep the company producing products in a more productive manner. As a supply chain manager, it is your duty to save the corporation costs as needed, and by forecast supplies that are needed you can order in larger quantities with better pricing. Having a software that can analyze history of products will better be able direct you to not over or under ...
Monitoring and Measuring SharePoint to Guarantee Your ROIChristian Buckley
Whether on-premises or online, the business value of SharePoint can be hard to articulate to your management team if you are not taking the time to monitor and measure. This session identifies what is available out-of-the-box in SharePoint and in Office 365, how Microsoft uses telemetry and analytics to improve the platform, and options available for identifying your ROI by using these tools and more.
Make Intelligent Decisions that Drive Business Value
Improving profitability is one of the highest priorities for business managers. The challenge is to identify and analyze profit-making activities by specific dimensions such as customers, products, channels, segments, and business units. Accurate data helps drive continuous profit improvement initiatives by helping businesses understand where and how to improve profitability.
The results can be staggering. Companies that leverage cost analytics
to focus on cost reduction can experience reductions of 3–5%, while those that focus on profitable growth and revenue initiatives can achieve 5–15% improvements. For example, a $4 billion financial services
firm added $600 million in annual profit enhancement by focusing on profitable growth and revenue rather than cost containment.
Longview Profitability Analytics leverages your company’s data to provide powerful insight into revenues, business costs, margins, and operations to help you develop profitable action plans.
Revenue Operations Analytics: A Strategic BlueprintKwanzoo Inc
The true value in your KPIs is understanding how they complete the bigger picture of the customer journeys that drive the most impact for your business.
I have been drinking from a virtual fire hose since joining my most recent technology company, Anametrix, a cloud-based digital analytics innovator. A whole new book opened for me on how digital analytics can both increase top line revenue and reduce spend by shining a very bright flashlight into marketing efforts.
We are all painfully aware of the data explosion problem. In 2011, the Gartner Group stated that information volume collected by businesses today is growing at a minimum 59% annually. The rapid adoption of social media has also caused customer data to explode in the last few years, creating entirely new challenges for marketers. It is now imperative for organizations to think differently to accommodate the variety, volume, and velocity of their growing customer-related data.
This is where my recent experiences come in: I have personally seen how digital analytics can harness the power of massive amounts customer-related data. It can literally simplify the accelerating complexity by providing deep visibility – as well as clarity – into the effectiveness of various marketing efforts, across both online and offline channels.
I will now outline the role of IT and CFO in adopting cloud-based digital analytics solutions, discuss the benefits as well as challenges of moving to this emerging category, and provide some illustrative examples on how digital analytics can transform your marketing organization.
In today’s global marketplace, successful companies must be able to integrate and quickly view quality audit information from their manufacturing sites all over the world. This strategic capability has become even more important as manufacturers have moved offshore and have become more complex. The value and immediacy of quality assurance data is a critical element to the survival of competitive manufacturing organizations. Software systems can address these issues.
Source:
Lyons Information Systems, Inc
http://www.lyonsinfo.com
A presentation discussing the benefits of developing a customer experience dashboard to measure customer happiness and to help drive business planning and efficiency. Includes top tips when scoping and planning a dashboard project.
This paper is designed to show how integrated process planning and cross employee planning can be a vital part to any business operation. It will also uncover how different integrated processes and employee relations will help a business to grow. Various topics ranging from enterprise resource planning, integrated planning in supply chains, the non-linear approach, innovation and digitalization coupled with cross training and empowerment, Human resources, and Manager Employee relations complement each other and could bring an organization together. Various thought processes and intellectual reasoning skills were instrumental in all consideration of this project. Many antiquated processes were changed over the years to update operations in the business world where conventional means were not effective. Integrating product planning and employee planning optimized operations both in the product and service industry and I will accent many of these optimizations. With recent technological advances and human relations tactics, project management and organization has been streamlined and works more productively than its predecessors. Regardless of the industry, integrated process planning, and cross employee planning could possible turn a dinosaur into a competitive part of the economy.
Implementing Business Collaboration Framework PowerPoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
This complete deck can be used to present to your team. It has PPT slides on various topics highlighting all the core areas of your business needs. This complete deck focuses on Implementing Business Collaboration Framework PowerPoint Presentation Slides and has professionally designed templates with suitable visuals and appropriate content. This deck consists of total of twenty six slides. All the slides are completely customizable for your convenience. You can change the colour, text and font size of these templates. You can add or delete the content if needed. Get access to this professionally designed complete presentation by clicking the download button below. http://bit.ly/37f9z4W
Does your staff lose time and patience searching for information, client files and documents? Organizing, storing, searching for and retrieving documents should be easy to do, yet few firms have a well-planned document management strategy in place.
The right document management system can improve your firm’s efficiency, accuracy, and ultimately, profitability. But in order to achieve a good return on investment from any new document management system, you’ll need a solid workflow and process.
We explore new techniques for selecting and tracking value-driven KPIs. The ResultsPositive team has years of experience building custom dashboards that emphasize and leverage key business metrics. These “business value dashboard” solutions can solve pressing visibility and workflow challenges, illuminating new opportunities for improvement. Enable informed decision making with unfettered insight and visualization into your ongoing business processes. By using the data you’ve already collected, you can create a more productive pipeline. In this webinar we will be presenting:
Overview of how business value dashboards consolidate and surface key metrics.
Customer Examples of successfully implemented dashboards:
Large Utility Corporation – Network and Distribution Dashboard
One of America’s largest food companies and leading distributors – Realtime distribution center status
ResultsPositive’s BVD-specific offerings and best practices.
1. Buyers Guide TO
Carbon Accounting
Software
Are you planning on implementing carbon accounting? Or in
the process of selecting a carbon accounting solution? Then
this guide is for you. Think of it as a shopping checklist - to
help you navigate making the right choice.
ENVIRONMENT. H&S. SUSTAINABILITY
2. Establishyour long term goals
Make sure you are clear about the purpose and use for tracking your carbon footprint.
What are the key drivers? Resource use optimisation, cost-savings, public disclosure?
Also, think about future requirements – are you planning to roll this out from a
departmental to an organisation-wide solution? Is the objective to widen your carbon
tracking to include your supply-chain in the future?
Internalteam on-boarding
Essential to the success of any major change is making sure you have the right team
behind you. Be sure to establish who all the internal and external stakeholders are,
and the roles they have to play in bringing the organisation along.
Define success & milestones
Every organisation has different required outcomes from implementing a system –
so be sure to define what success looks like (and remember this may be in stages).
Define key milestones and align environmental with business objectives to satisfy
stakeholders over the course of building a more sustainable carbon footprint.
Before starting we’d recommend a few key steps to
make your purchase a success. Establishing your carbon
footprint is the first step in a much longer journey, so it’s
important to…
Improving
Efficiency
Insightvs
reporting
Next
checkyou’ve
considered
these 3 areas
in makingyour
evaluation...
QUICK FACTS
Did you know that the 5 key
trends that justify the business
case for managing and reporting
carbon emissions are:
1. Requests from top customers
2. Improving company brand
3. Cost savings
4. Investor pressure
5. Compliance
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3. Good Accounting Principles
As with any form of accounting, completeness, accuracy and validity
are good principles to adhere to. What gets counted and how
are prime considerations when choosing your carbon accounting
software. Make sure the system follows a sound standard for carbon
accounting to ensure you have a true picture of your performance.
A Single Source ofthe Truth
You should be looking for a system that is more than just a fancy
carbon calculator. It’s very likely that all your financial transactions
are held in one centralised system, so why not do the same for your
non-financial data? Choose a system that can act as your single source
of truth. Ensure it has the capacity to track all the data points in
the granularity you require across all scopes, emission sources, KPI
metrics and supply-chain data.
Compliance + Standards Adherence
Ensuring you adhere to management and board mandates is one
thing, but deciding which local and international standards you need
and want to comply with, both today and in the future are key to
future success. Look at what the standards are for your industry and
check what your competitors are doing. Ensure the system of choice
provides you with an easy way to check and track your compliance
status across the business.
Getting the bestst
picture possible.
The fact that you’re reading this guide suggests that internal
and external stakeholders are demanding the same level of
quality for environmental data as they are for financial data.
Putting a system in place that follows sound principles will
help you to establish a true picture of your resource use and
ultimately your carbon footprint.
4. It’S aworkflow
& can be automated
Accounting for carbon is a workflow so
treat it as such and automate it! A good
system should allow you to define and
document your processes including tasks,
people involved, reporting methodologies
and timelines. It should also automate
these processes and only prompt you
if there is something to do for you.
Documented, repeatable processes
generate long-term savings.
Improving
Efficiency.
Canyou integrate
withyour existing
systems?
Collecting and chasing data is a painful
task so ensure your prospective vendor
provides automated ways of getting
data in and out. Capabilities to look for
are system to system integration (APIs),
direct email attachment uploads and
secure upload areas for suppliers. Good
integration with in-house and supplier
systems can make life easy.
Simplicityof Use &
Reliability
An intuitive user interface is key but
you want a system to also demonstrate
robustness in order for it to become a
trusted companion on your sustainability
journey. Carbon accounting software
should come with in-built knowledge
such as carbon conversion factors,
systemised calculations, automated data
aggregation, plausibility checks at point
of data entry, anomaly alerts and role-
based user security. Make sure you check
on these thing with your vendor.
Cloud Based vs
On Premise
With carbon accounting requiring
integration with various data sources
and collaboration of multiple parties
in different locations, perhaps it
is the time to consider a cloud-
based system? Cloud beats on-
premise on several points including
implementation time, accessibility and
costs so ensure you evaluate your
needs against the simplicity of using
a cloud-based solution.
Transparency+
Audit + Risk
It’s critical to make sure your system is
transparent, auditable and shows who
did what, where and when to uncover
risk in carbon accounting. Maintaining
automated audit trails and keeping
records of data imports and user activity
should be standard functionality. Get your
prospective vendor to showcase the tool’s
audit capabilities.
Your goal should be to save time as well as carbon. Any
software choice should free you from manual processes
and administration and enable you to spend your
valuable time on adding value to your business.
5. UnderstandingYour Footprint
The tool of choice must make it easy for you to understand and analyse
your carbon and resource use across the organisation, whether it be from
corporate, facility or asset-level interest. A picture speaks a thousand
words, so ask your vendor about their data visualisation abilities. In a
state-of-the-art manner, you want interactive, drillable dashboards and
automated benchmarking that enables you to gain insights about your
performance so you can take meaningful actions.
turning insight into Action
A key result from a carbon accounting software investment is the ability
to turn gained insight into action. Driving behavioural change to achieve
resource use optimisation, cost-savings and organisational resilience is
a key responsibility of every sustainability function. Ensure your tool of
choice supports the running of sustainability initiatives, tracking return-
on-investment, and is able to capture conversations and findings shared
between staff, suppliers and advisors.
Communicating and Marketing
Careful consideration needs to be given to your reporting requirements.
You may want to communicate performance internally to your Execs,
marketing team or other staff but also report externally against local or
international frameworks. Ask your vendor how the software can support
those very different reporting needs. Capabilities to look out for are
collaborative report writing, supporting workflow and audit trail, scheduled
email reports, or live-updating dashboards that can be embedded in your
internal or external website as a means to support self-service reporting.
Insightvs
reporting.Data in, information out. As important as the
efficiencies a good system creates for gathering
and managing data are its capabilities to analyse,
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