Decarbonizing Supply Chains

Three steps to reducing carbon emissions in supply chain management and procurement

What are the reporting duties that I’m going to have to fulfill in carbon accounting? Where are the greatest greenhouse gas emissions in my business and along my supply chain? What will the cost impact of carbon price changes be on my business? How and at which suppliers, locations and so on can I significantly reduce my CO2e footprint? How can SCM and procurement add the most value in decarbonizing the supply chain?

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We’ll help you answer these and other questions around the topic of carbon accounting and decarbonization. That way you’ll get a quick and pragmatic overview of your emissions drivers. The insights this will give you will form the basis for reporting in compliance with leading sustainability reporting standards and frameworks, and for your emissions strategy and decarbonization roadmap and their implementation. 

We implement your decarbonization project in three steps:

Step 1: Hot Spot Assessment

Our Expertise 

  1. Identify your foremost emission sources (‘hot spots’) along the value chain (using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for Scopes 1, 2, and 3). 

  2. Conduct emissions workshops to prioritize your most important commodity groups, suppliers, business areas, and areas of action. 

  3. Define your greenhouse gas emission data model and calculation logic (‘CO2e baselining’): as the project progresses, we take an ‘iterative path’ from expenditure-based secondary data (hot spot assessment) to company-specific primary data. 

 

The Benefits 

  • Confidence: This will give you certainty about carbon hot spots in your supply chain, as well as data transparency. That, in turn, will allow you to prepare properly for the coming demands of different stakeholders. 

  • Ensure Competitiveness: Good carbon accounting creates transparency around carbon emissions and gives you an accurate idea about your future costs. This allows you to prepare in the best possible way for rising carbon prices. 

  • Information Advantage: Integrating robust carbon data helps you not only in your reporting, but also when it comes to making decisions in procurement and top management. 

Step 2: Developing Your Emissions Strategy, Targets, and Roadmap

Our Expertise 

  1. Define decarbonization targets and baseline. 

  2. Derive custom decarbonization measures.

  3. Develop decarbonization strategy and roadmap.

  4. Execute emission reduction projects (such as material and waste reduction, transportation optimization, and circular economy).

  5. Roll out emissions reduction initiatives with strategic partners and suppliers.

  6. Establish impact management/controlling and reporting structure.


The Benefits 

  • Value enhancement: You concentrate on the right action areas and suppliers, because your decarbonization and roadmap pursue only those targets that contribute to achieving your sustainability goals.

  • Compliance: Make an active contribution to safeguarding future generations’ quality of life by observing ecological standards and regulations. This helps you safeguard your social license to operate. 

  • Reputation: Enhance your company’s reputation through a strategic approach to decarbonization that delivers visible results and clearly demonstrates your value proposition to internal and external stakeholders.

Step 3: Pilot and Roll Out Decarbonization Program

Our Expertise 

We look at prioritized commodity groups, suppliers, and business areas while establishing a reporting structure and governance processes. That’s how we get your decarbonization path off to the best possible start and pave the way for demonstrably low-carbon supply chains.

The Benefits 

  • Ensure Competitiveness: Realize and implement your sustainability ambitions to ensure long-term competitiveness for your business in an increasingly regulated business environment

  • Value Enhancement: Combine emissions-related and economic aspects through targeted initiatives. This gives you twice the added value within your company

  • Secure Your Supply Lines and Make Your Business Resilient: You can make your business processes future-proof and resilient by deploying holistic carbon management and targeted decarbonization measures


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Mail: info@hoeveler-holzmann.com

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