Built on the world’s largest food product sustainability database, Latis enables food companies to measure, reduce, report and communicate impact.
Drawing on HowGood’s industry-leading food expertise, with 90K+ emission factors and eight core sustainability metrics, the platform offers a holistic view of food product sustainability. You can see the tradeoffs between metrics, reducing your carbon footprint while uplifting people and nature.
Our AI-powered predictions simplify data collection and automate product footprinting, allowing you to bridge the gap between company and product-level impact accounting. You can engage with suppliers at any stage of maturity to incorporate supplier data into impact assessments, and quantify the impact of farm-level practices.
By working with Latis, you can also communicate the impact of your products with the world’s leading suppliers, CPGs, restaurants, and retailers, and benchmark your impact with unparalleled industry insights.
Dashboard
Your dashboard enables you to identify key insights in Latis and take action towards your impact reduction goals, quickly. You can:
Assess your portfolio impact
Analyze your portfolio by workspace, category or tags, against any metric. Export the data to share with your team and strategize around portfolio impact reduction.
Measure your corporate carbon footprint
See the breakdown of your overall Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, with your FLAG emissions broken out. Create a GHG Protocol-compliant report for reporting purposes, or share with your ESG team.
Reduce your product impact
Identify your top five highest impact products for a given workspace, against any metric. You can see the impact contribution by ingredient, and deep-dive into product abatement strategies at the ingredient level.
Carbon Accounting
The Carbon Accounting page allows you to manage your full corporate accounting alongside your product carbon footprinting and carbon reduction efforts in Latis. You can:
Measure your Scope 1, 2, 3 and FLAG emissions
Input your company activity data to measure your full-scope company emissions, with FLAG emissions broken out.
Create multiple and historical reports
Create multiple reports to track emissions reduction over time for your organization, brands or locations.
Export GHG Protocol-compliant reports
Export GHG Protocol-compliant reports for Scope 3 and FLAG reporting purposes, or share with your team to include in your company’s ESG reports.
Company Impact
The Company Impact page provides an overview of your company’s overall impact. You can break down your company’s overall impact across a range of different metrics, including:
Company carbon footprint at each stage of the carbon life cycle
You can also see how your company performs on any of HowGood’s core sustainability metrics, including On-Farm GHG Emissions, Processing, Blue Water Usage, Soil Health, Biodiversity, Animal Welfare and Labor Risk.
You can analyze the impact of your workspaces on any metric, and benchmark them against the Sales Category Average.
You can also create new company-level initiatives and align them with a particular workspace. See Initiatives for more information.
Initiatives
The Initiatives page allows you to create company-level sustainability initiatives and track them over time. You can:
Model scenarios for how you can achieve your Scope 3 reduction goals.
From there, you can strategize how you will innovate on product formulations, adapt your sourcing portfolio and engage with suppliers across any metric to help you achieve your goals.
Products
The Products page is where you assess the impact of all of the products that you produce or sell. Your products are organized in workspaces, which allow you to reflect your products in Latis in the same way that you categorize them internal to your business.
On the Products page, you can:
See hotspot analysis of all your products, and sort and filter products by any metric to prioritize products for improvement.
Identify high-risk products, and then zoom in to understand your product’s impact at the ingredient and supplier level.
Strategize how you can improve impact by sourcing alternative ingredients, or engaging with suppliers.
Discover which of your products are eligible for sustainability claims.
Once you have identified high-performing products, you can share them with partners in the food system or validate them for on-pack claims, using Product Reports. You can even assign products to team members responsible for improving product impact.
Materials
The Materials page is where you can track the impact of your sourcing portfolio, engage with your suppliers and discover new, more sustainable materials and suppliers. You can:
See your Scope 3 emissions at the portfolio, vendor and material level
Export a Scope 3 report that is compliant with the GHG Protocol, CDP, and SBTi FLAG requirements.
See the breakdown of your data granularity, which is an indicator of how precise your impact assessments are.
By focusing on the materials that have the biggest impact on your sourcing portfolio, you can accelerate your progress towards sustainability goals by gathering more granular data and strategizing around impact reduction.
Vendors
The Vendors page provides visibility into your supply chain, to help you understand the impact of all of your current vendors, and provides insights to help you prioritize which vendors to engage. You can:
See the average carbon intensity across all vendors, and your top five vendors by carbon intensity.
Request more granular data from your vendors, via HowGood’s Supplier Portal and Agricultural Practices Survey.
Compare suppliers within specific categories and benchmark against the average carbon intensity.
By inviting your vendors to submit their sourcing data, you accelerate your progress towards sustainability goals, reduce the cost of your initiatives and achieve ROI on your sustainability strategy faster.
Ingredient Library
The Ingredient Library is a powerful tool for exploring HowGood’s global database of raw materials and ingredients, and incorporating more sustainable ingredients into your product formulations. You can:
Search for more sustainable ingredients from alternative sourcing locations, or add standards and certifications to see whether it improves impact.
Search for alternatives within the same ingredient function, such as flavors, sweeteners, fats, proteins, carriers, gelling agents, thickeners, binders and supplements.
Compare ingredients across HowGood’s core sustainability metrics, and export the results to share with your colleagues or integrate into your workflow.
