Big British Brands Factor In Carbon Compliance
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Country
- United Kingdom
Product
- Ecometrica EHS Module
- BSI Entropy
Tech Stack
- API Integration
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Environmental Impact Reduction
- Cost Savings
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries
- Food & Beverage
- Retail
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Associated British Foods plc (ABF) is a British multinational food processing and retailing company, listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It is the world’s second-largest producer of both sugar and baker’s yeast. The group’s brands include household names such as Mazola, Ovaltine, Ryvita, Jordans and Twinings. Its retail division, Primark, has around 200 stores with over 6,500,000 sq ft of selling space across Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The company has 113,000 employees in 47 countries worldwide and generates a revenue of 13.3 billion GBP.
The Challenge
Associated British Foods plc (ABF) is a multinational food processing and retailing company with a presence in 80 countries and several business sectors. The company has been publishing environmental data for many years. However, ABF's existing system, BSI Entropy, is a pure data collection tool with no built-in emission factors or the ability to run calculations for UK Mandatory Carbon Reporting compliance. With a presence in so many countries, identifying and maintaining accurate and up-to-date emissions factors was a constant and complex issue for ABF.
The Solution
ABF implemented the Ecometrica EHS module, which is available as an application programming interface (API). This allows it to “plug in” to third-party software and carbon-enable it in the background, without staff having to learn anything new. Ecometrica configured the API to interact with ABF’s existing BSI Entropy solution to provide all of the back-end functionality to create complete environmental assessments and reports from previously entered data. This meant that ABF could keep the BSI interface, which nominated employees were used to using, while the Ecometrica API would collect the required data and run all calculations. Ecometrica maintains the emission factors database for all the countries that ABF is present in, and provides custom factors for categories such as sugar beet.
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