One of the biggest barriers to carbon reduction in the food industry is the lack of visibility throughout the supply chain. Food companies have limited control over their supply chains and rely heavily on upstream suppliers to reduce their Scope 3 emissions.
Latis helps you fast-track your Scope 3 reporting and supplier engagement efforts by bridging the information gap between you and your suppliers. The platform gives you an automated baseline of your Scope 3 emissions, highlights hotspots in your sourcing portfolio, and lets you integrate primary data from suppliers.
You can see your Scope 3 emissions at the portfolio, material and vendor level, and export a Scope 3 report that is compliant with GHG Protocol, CDP, and SBTi FLAG requirements. You can also discover new, more sustainable materials and suppliers, and plan initiatives to achieve your reduction targets.
Sourcing Portfolio Analysis
Analyze the impact of your sourcing portfolio
The Materials page gives you an overall assessment of the impact of your sourcing portfolio. You can see the impact of your portfolio across any metric, including:
Scope 3 Emissions
You can see your Scope 3 emissions, including Category 1 (Purchased Goods and Services) and Category 4 (Upstream Transportation and Distribution). We focus on these two categories because they make up more than 70% of a food company’s total emissions.
You can also see your FLAG emissions, broken out by material.
Carbon Footprint (Cradle-to-Gate)
You can see the Carbon Footprint (Cradle-to-Gate) of your sourcing portfolio, with a breakdown of emissions at each stage of the Carbon Life Cycle. This is measured in kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per kilogram of material, based on the volume of materials sourced.
Holistic Impact Metrics
You can see the social and environmental impact of your materials on individual sustainability metrics, including the HowGood Impact Score, Processing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Land Occupation, Blue Water Usage, Soil Health, Labor Risk Exposure, Animal Welfare and Biodiversity, and Deforestation Risk.
Data Granularity
You can see the breakdown of your data granularity, which is an indicator of how precise your impact assessments are.
Material Analysis
Identify high-impact materials
Once you have assessed the overall impact of your sourcing portfolio, you can identify material hotspots for improvement. By focusing on the materials that have the biggest impact on your Scope 3 emissions, you can accelerate your progress towards sustainability goals.
You can sort your materials by their Scope 3 Contribution and strategize ways to reduce impact, by requesting more granular data from suppliers, or exploring more sustainable materials in the HowGood Material Directory.
You can also export your selection to a .csv file to share with your colleagues or integrate into your workflow.
Supplier Engagement
Integrate primary data from suppliers
Latis facilitates more seamless and strategic supplier engagement by meeting you and your suppliers wherever you are in your Scope 3 reduction journey.
Drawing on the world’s largest food product sustainability database, the platform can assess supplier emissions at scale, using standard data that suppliers already have access to. You can achieve more granular impact assessments by incorporating more detailed primary data, via the following methods:
Supplier Acceleration Program
Maximize supplier data coverage
Supplier Acceleration lets you harness the power of HowGood’s Impact Data Network, which spans across our entire ecosystem of customers and industry partners, to unlock full visibility into your supply chain. Through Supplier Acceleration, you receive access to all available supplier data in the network and dedicated services to activate and onboard any supplier data outside the network.
Latis: Supplier Connect (BETA)
Collaborate with suppliers
Latis: Supplier Connect gives suppliers access to upload their products and ingredients and share the PCFs directly with you in the platform. This way, you and your suppliers have a shared understanding of impact and can partner to develop joint reduction initiatives.
HowGood Supplier Portal
Collect primary data on product information
HowGood’s Supplier Portal streamlines the process for collecting data from your suppliers. It offers a standardized format and template for suppliers to provide readily available information that is most material to measuring impact, without disclosing any proprietary formulation or ingredient data.
Key Agricultural Practices Survey
Collect primary data for on-farm practices
HowGood’s Key Agricultural Practices Survey allows you to collect more granular data on farm-level practices and enables suppliers to reflect the impact of the practices that they are employing on farm.
Save Reports
Collaborate and plan for the future.
You can save snapshots of your sourcing portfolio as Reports, export them into a .csv file and collaborate with others on your team to evaluate various sourcing scenarios. Collaborate with your colleagues by having users save reports to your Latis environment.
