Sustainability managers from many shipping companies face fragmented emission data across ERP systems and business units. Read our article to gain insights into how you can enhance data accuracy and decarbonization insights while reducing manual effort to collect data.
Shipper emission data: Complex structures are holding back decarbonization efforts
Imagine this: it’s mid-quarter again, and your sustainability team needs to report on transport emissions. You reach out to country units, wait for responses, receive data in three different formats, spot obvious inconsistencies, and spend weeks validating numbers that may or may not be correct. Sound familiar?
Most shipping companies today operate with fragmented data landscapes: Emission and transport information flows from multiple ERP systems, regional offices, different business units, and external subcontractors – each with their own data standards (or lack thereof). The contact persons providing this data might change, complicating things even further. Data formats often vary wildly: some files use calculations you don’t understand; others rely on assumptions you’ve never questioned, and a few contain obvious errors that slip through the cracks.
Generic CSRD tools can’t handle this complexity. In-house solutions might lack the sophistication to harmonize the data. And managing everything through Excel spreadsheets? That’s not just inefficient – it’s a compliance and accuracy nightmare. Sustainability teams often spend too much of their time on data validation rather than strategy development – a hidden productivity drain most companies don’t measure. (....)