The five carefully designed interactive charts in this Answer Pack are a practical way to answer this question. Suppliers—and the items purchased from them—are a major source of your organization's environmental impacts. See the Scope 3 impact of your top suppliers and materials, discover which matter most, and prioritize for engagement.
This Answer Pack also provides data to streamline and supplement supplier surveys, and extensive Scope 3 information for external reporting like CDP Supply Chain. Choose from greenhouse gas and water, and two roll-ups to organize the results by familiar business dimensions, like business unit, facility or department.
What you get, how it works, and what you can do.
What You Get
See the impact of 50 suppliers you choose, and the materials and services purchased from them, by total impact and intensity per dollar. Choose from Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—consistent with the Scope 3 screening step of the GHG Protocol—or water withdrawal. 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 for 50 suppliers (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 environmental impact of your top suppliers. Confirm how complete your scope 1 and 2 supplier surveys have been, or quickly ascertain which suppliers are worthy of surveys or more in-depth engagement. 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 supplier has the greatest impact?
- Which materials and services have the greatest impact?
- How much does a single supplier contribute to the sum?
- Is the top supplier by spend also the top supplier by impact?
- How does the ranking vary by business dimension?
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| Scope 3 Intensity: Impact per dollar of spend |
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- For every dollar spent, which suppliers have the largest impact?
- What are the top intensity (impact per dollar) suppliers by department (or other business dimension)?
- Which suppliers are low intensity, and what can be learned?
- Which suppliers are high intensity and represent opportunities?
- Which materials and services are high/low intensity?
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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?
- Which supplier contributes most to the chosen business dimension’s impact?
- What relationship exists 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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