The five carefully designed interactive charts in this Answer Pack offer a practical way to answer this question. Purchased materials and services are a major source of your organization's environmental impacts.
Discover which categories of spend on materials and services matter most, so you can prioritize initiatives. Use it to provide extensive Scope 3 information for external reporting like CDP Supply Chain. Choose from greenhouse gas and water, and pick two additional roll-ups to organize the results by familiar business dimensions, like facility or department.
What you get, how it works, and what you can do.
What You Get
You get to see the upstream supply chain impact of all 25 purchased items. Choose from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—compliant with the screening step of the WRI Scope 3 protocol—or water. Each item is ranked by its
cradle-to-gate Scope 3 impact. Results and source data are shown side-by-side through interactive web analytics. You also get to choose two additional business dimensions to "roll-up" the data, like Department or Location.
How it Works
We provide a spreadsheet template for you to organize spend information on the 25 materials and services (procurement or GL records) and two business dimensions (roll-ups). Upload the spreadsheet and your results will be online within two weeks. One of our friendly Environmental Impact Analysts will review your data to make sure it is prepared correctly. They will perform all impact calculations using Climate Earth's EBI system and the CEDA database. When your portal is ready, we'll walk you through the results and make sure you understand what they mean. And we're always available to answer questions as they come up.
The ROI — What You Can Do
This Answer Pack helps you ask and answer key business questions about the supply chain impact of your materials and services. Interactive tables and charts allow you to intuitively observe patterns in the data, evaluate results by groupings you choose, and perform SWOT analyses (Strength/Weakness, Opportunity/Threat):
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| Scope 3 Impact: Total impact vs. spend |
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- Which item has the greatest impact?
- How does the ranking vary by business dimension?
- How much does a single item contribute to the sum?
- Is the top spend item also the top impact item?
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| Scope 3 Intensity: Impact per dollar of spend |
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- For every dollar spent, which items have the largest impact?
- What are the top intensity (impact per dollar) items by business dimension?
- Which are low intensity, and what can be learned?
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| Interactive scatterplot: Spend, total impact & intensity |
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- When reviewing the data by facility, which one could be a model of best practices?
- Looking at departmental performance, which one is falling behind?
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| Interactive Heatmap: Spend, impact, and intensity |
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- Of the facilities that have the greatest total impact, which has the highest spend?
- What can we see about the relationship between a department's type of spend and total impact?
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| Benchmarks: Comparison to Scope 3 industry averages |
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- How does your total Scope 3 compare to a typical organization in your industry?
- How does your organization's Scope 3 compare to other industry averages?
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