We are collecting:
- If you have already calculated your company's emissions: Evidence of the externally calculated emissions data for the most recent year calculated.
- If you have not yet calculated emissions: Your company's purchase data for one financial reporting year.
Purchase data consists of purchase orders, accounts payable, expenses, and credit card spend data - a complete breakdown is provided below.
This data enables us to calculate most of your scope 3 emissions.
It typically contains at least the following fields:
- Purchase date: Date of purchase
- Country of spend: Location of the supplier of the purchase (country).
- Supplier name: Name of the supplier of the purchase.
- Spend value: The spend value of the purchase.
- Currency of spend: The spend currency (3-digit code).
- Spend category: Any internal procurement category descriptor.
- Spend description: Any additional description of the spend. Commonly this is stored as "Narrative" or "Description" in systems.
Here's a non-comprehensive list of what your purchase data file should include:
- Goods
- Materials and components needed for manufacturing your products
- Supplies required to perform services
- Office supplies, IT equipment, furniture
- Purchases of fuels and refrigerants
- Capital goods, e.g. machinery, equipment, construction materials, vehicles
- Services
- Electricity, steam, heating, cooling, water bills
- Catering services
- Logistics and freight services
- Waste disposal services
- Business travel and accommodation
- Payment for leased assets
- Maintenance services
- Security services
- Insurance
- Memberships and subscriptions
- Training and education