FAQs for suppliers
Complete list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for suppliers submitting data.
Scores
- Understanding the Emitwise Supplier Scorecard
- How Can I Reach Emitwise's Gold Score?
- How Do I Access My Supplier Scorecard?
- What Are the Different Levels of the Decarbonization Score?
- How Can I Improve My Emitwise Score?
- Can I Improve My Score Year on Year?
Data Security
- Data Security at Emitwise
- Why Does Emitwise Ask for Revenue Data?
- What Data Will You Report to My Customer?
- I Have Concerns About Data Security. How Will You Ensure My Data Is Protected?
- How Can I Share My Profile with My Requesting Customer?
Data collection
- What type of data are you collecting?
- How can I put the right people for data collection in touch with you?
- What periods are you basing the calculations on?
- I was asked for the revenue figure for 2023, but my accounts department supplied the turnover figure, is this correct?
- Where can I find my company's spend data?
- Should I include VAT in the spend figures I submit to Emitwise?
- Should we provide our total revenue or the revenue with our client?
- How does our emissions assessment reflect that our products are built by subcontractors?
- How granular is the information you are asking for, and who has access to it?
- Should we provide individual transaction data?
- I don’t have access to any of the data required to participate; what should I do?
- How detailed or granular does the procurement data I provide need to be?
- What Data Does Emitwise Collect from Suppliers?
- What Data Does Emitwise Share with Customers?
- Can I Export a Copy of All the Data Required for the Data Submission?
- Can we organise our spending by business division rather than submitting the names of subcontractors?
- What Data is Needed to Calculate Corporate Carbon Emissions Intensity?
Data Quality | Corporate Emissions Intensity
- How Can I Pass Corporate Emissions Intensity Data Quality the First Time I Submit Data?
- What Are the Reasons I Could Fail Data Quality for Corporate Emissions Intensity?
- What Do Emitwise’s Auto-Checks Look For When Doing Data Quality for Corporate Emissions Intensity?
- What is the Difference Between Auto-Checks and Manual Human Review of Corporate Emissions Intensity?
- How Can I Ensure My Scope 3 Emissions Data Meets Quality Standards?
- What Are the Common Reasons for Failing Automated Data Quality Checks?
- How Do I Resolve a Failed Manual Data Quality Check?
- What Is the Role of Automated Notifications in Improving Data Quality?
- Why Is It Important to Submit High-Quality Corporate Emissions Data?
- How Can I Provide Scope 3 Emissions Data if I Have Never Measured It Before?
- What is Implied Margin and Why Did I Fail the Implied Margin Check?
- I failed data quality due to "Outside industry benchmark," what should I do?
- I failed data quality due to "Scope 3 emissions too low," what should I do?
- I failed data quality due to "Incomplete data for the year," what should I do?
- I failed data quality due to "Incomplete data," what should I do?
- I failed data quality due to "Spend poor description," what should I do?
- I failed data quality due to "Spend file not in English," what should I do?
Carbon Accounting
- What is Carbon Accounting?
- Why Does Carbon Accounting Matter?
- How Do You Measure Emissions for Service Businesses?
- What is the GHG Protocol?
- What is the calculation methodology used to measure emissions?
- How do we address any carbon offsetting that we may have done when reporting?
- How does the methodology used to measure our emissions compare to what Emitwise might offer direct customers?
- How will the client assess the proportion of our emissions that applies to them?
- What Are Emission Factors?
- How does your software prevent double counting from happening?
- Why Does Emitwise Ask for My Company's Revenue?
- Understanding Corporate Emissions Intensity
- What Happens If My Emissions Intensity Changes?
- How is my benchmark calculated, and how might it change over time?
Data upload
- What happens if I submit the data after the deadline?
- Can I submit the data without putting it into the template you provided?
- What do you mean by providing emissions by scope and category, targets, and initiatives?
- In what currency should spend data be submitted?
- Is there a required data format?
- What Happens If I Don’t Submit My Data by the Deadline?
- How do I submit the data?
- Does your software exclude spend that is not within the boundary of our organisation's footprint?
- Should I remove accruals, refunds, returns and internal transfers from the procurement data prior to submitting?
- Can Emitwise differentiate suppliers and subcontractors or should this be indicated when submitting data?
- If we have previously calculated our emissions, should we provide travel data?
- Where can we find the data templates?
- We have thousands of purchases. Should we group our purchases by supplier prior to uploading the data?
- It’s unclear whether I should be uploading all activity or purchase data to Emitwise or only activity or purchase data that is relevant to my customer.
- Could I provide a copy of my ESOS or SECR submissions report rather than submitting spend data?
- What is the difference between CDP, EcoVadis and Emitwise? Is it necessary to be reporting to all three if our client is asking us to?
Targets
- Why Does Having an SBTi-Aligned Target Matter?
- What Methods Does Emitwise Enable for Setting and Validating SBTi-Aligned Targets?
- What Are the Requirements for My Target to Be SBTi-Aligned?
- How Do I Set Near-Term and Long-Term Targets Aligned with SBTi Criteria?
- What is a Baseline Year and How Does it Affect My SBTi-Aligned Target?
- How Can I Set Scope 3 Emissions Targets with Emitwise?
- What is the Difference Between Absolute and Intensity Reduction Targets?
- What Is a Supplier Engagement Target?
- What Are Science-Based Targets?
- How Can I Achieve Net-Zero?
- Why Do Targets Matter for My Company?
- What are the Next Steps to Achieve Emissions Reductions?
- What Are Carbon Offsets?
PCF
- Why should I calculate a PCF?
- What is the difference between a PCF, an LCA and an EPD?
- Who can access my Bill of Materials?
- Is your PCF aligned with other standards?
- I have a product available in different dimensions. Should I create a PCF for each dimension?
- Do you take into account circularity?
- How are you calculating transportation emissions?
- What scope of emissions is covered by the PCF?
- Where can I find the bill of materials?
- Do I have to calculate a PCF and also my corporate carbon footprint?
- Which products should I calculate a PCF for?
- How do I calculate a PCF for a product that I resell or distribute?
- What should I input as the UUID of my product?
- How do I calculate a PCF?
- I sell services. How should I calculate a Product Carbon Footprint?
- If we supply a product to multiple customer locations, how do we report the transport intensity? A weighted average? Or is Transport intensity not required?
- If we provide different products to different customers, and we have more than one customer request in Emitwise, how do our customers only see the PCF's that are relevant to them?
- If we supply many products but they all have the same emissions intensity, can we group them together, rather than entering each sku?
- What do I need to do for my customer to see my PCF?
- Are there guidelines for what is required for a PCF methodology report?