Top 10 sustainability insights in Latis

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.

Read on for the top 10 sustainability insights you can get from Latis.

1. Export a Scope 3 report with biogenic and FLAG emissions

Who’s it for? ESG teams

What do you get? Excel spreadsheet report

Latis gives you an automated baseline of your Scope 3 emissions, highlights hotspots in your sourcing portfolio, and allows you to model scenarios for Scope 3 and FLAG emissions reduction. Designed in accordance with the GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard and Corporate Scope 3 Standard, Latis enables you to:

Automatically calculate your Scope 3 and FLAG emissions baseline with simple purchasing data
See your Scope 3 contributing materials and vendors at a glance
Model scenarios for Scope 3 reduction through product formulation and sourcing changes
Engage with your vendors to gather data and increase the granularity of your Scope 3 assessments
Request a FLAG Annex report to validate your SBTi FLAG targets
Export a Scope 3 report that is compliant with the CDP, GRI and SBTi FLAG reporting requirements, including a breakout of your biogenic emissions

2. Download a Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Report

Who’s it for? R&D | Sales | Account Managers | Category Managers | Sustainability Teams

What do you get? PDF Product Carbon Footprint report

Latis is the only sustainability platform that can measure ISO-compliant and auditable Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) for food products at scale. Our PCF model and methodology is third party certified by Carbon Trust, ISO 14067 Product Carbon Footprint verified and aligned with the GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard (Product Standard). Our PCFs are LCA-comparable reports that calculate the carbon footprint of your product and provide transparent documentation of methodology, calculations and data sources. You can:

Export a PDF Product Carbon Footprint report, including data sources, calculations and methodology
See the carbon footprint of your product across all stages of the product life cycle, from cradle-to-grave
See your biogenic and FLAG emissions broken down at the product level
Respond to customer requests for sustainability data seamlessly, and backed by high quality data
Validate your product’s carbon footprint for on-pack or public claims

3. Identify your top 5 suppliers by carbon footprint

Who’s it for? ESG teams | Procurement teams

What do you get? Dashboard highlighting top vendors by carbon footprint

Achieving your carbon reduction targets will rely on your suppliers taking action to reduce the carbon footprint of the products that you source from them. Latis 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.
Invite your vendors to share data or collaborate on product formulations with a free Latis SupplierConnect account.
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.

4. Track your supply chain deforestation risk

Who’s it for? ESG and Procurement teams

What do you get? Excel spreadsheet report

Latis enables you to assess the risk of deforestation in your supply chain as a result of agricultural production. Deforestation has become top of mind for many food companies, largely as a result of regulatory pressure, and consumer awareness campaigns around the scale of deforestation globally.

The Science-Based Targets initiative requires a zero-deforestation commitment by 2027, for companies that are submitting FLAG targets.
The EU Deforestation Regulation requires all food companies operating in the EU to prove that their products do not originate from recently deforested land or have contributed to forest degradation. As of 29 June 2023, operators and traders will have 18 months to implement the new rules.
The Accountability Framework Initiative requires food companies to adhere to no deforestation or conversion of ecosystems in order to achieve AFI certification.

With Latis, you can:

Assess your deforestation risk at the ingredient, product or portfolio level
See the trade-off between deforestation risk and other sustainability metrics

5. Export a Product Sustainability Scorecard

Who’s it for? Sales teams | R&D teams | Sustainability teams | Marketing teams

What do you get? PDF Product Sustainability Scorecard

Latis allows you to export a Sustainability Scorecard as a PDF report at the individual product or portfolio level to support your sales and marketing initiatives. The scorecard shows how your product or portfolio performs against the sales category and portfolio average against any metric.

Sales teams can present the scorecard to B2B buyers to support sales conversations with data-driven sustainability insights
Marketing and PR teams can use the scorecard to to inform public-facing sustainability communications campaigns
Sustainability teams can use the scorecard to get internal buy-in on proposed decisions to change sourcing
R&D teams can use the scorecard to show the impact of proposed formulations changes

6. Discover sustainable ingredient alternatives

Who’s it for? R&D and Procurement teams

What do you get? AI-powered abatement strategy recommendations

The Latis Abatement Strategies feature provides AI-powered recommendations on the optimal ingredient sourcing locations, standards and agricultural practices to reduce your product’s carbon footprint. You can take full advantage of the world’s largest database of food ingredient emissions factors to design innovative, low carbon footprint food products.

Share abatement strategies with your sourcing or procurement team to explore more sustainable alternatives
Share abatement strategies with suppliers to educate and support joint reduction initiatives

7. Share your product’s impact with partners in the food system

Who’s it for? Commercial and Procurement teams

What do you get? Product impact report, shareable with HowGood’s Impact Data Network

Latis allows you to share your product’s impact with partner companies in the food system using Product Reports. This is useful for upstream food companies (such as ingredient suppliers and CPG brands) to respond to data requests from downstream buyers (such as CPG brands and retailers). Your customer can also use your product data in their product formulations to refine and verify their impact assessments.

8. Track your progress towards sustainability goals

Who’s it for? ESG teams, Product and Category Managers

What do you get? Dynamic scenario planning dashboard

Latis allows you to model scenarios for how you can achieve your company’s sustainability goals in the Initiatives dashboard.

You can strategize how you will innovate on product formulations, adapt your sourcing portfolio and engage with suppliers across any metric, and visualize in real-time how those decisions affect your progress. You can use the Initiatives dashboard to set and track progress towards your Scope 3 and SBTi FLAG reduction goals, and export the data to share and strategize with your team.

9. Discover which of your products are eligible for sustainability claims

Who’s it for? Marketing teams

What do you get? Portfolio assessment of product marketing claim eligibility

Latis’ powerful portfolio assessment capabilities allow you to see which of your products are eligible for HowGood’s sustainability claims, including:

You can then leverage HowGood’s sales and marketing tools to communicate your products’ claims, in a B2B setting using the Product Sustainability Scorecard, or validate your claims for on-pack, on-shelf or online communications.

10. Understand how packaging contributes to your product impact

Who’s it for? R&D teams | Sustainability teams

What do you get? Portfolio assessment of product impact by packaging emissions

Packaging contributes an average of 5% to a food product’s carbon footprint (Science, Poore & Nemecek 2018), but can vary by material type, weight, production process, packaging design, number of uses and recyclability.

Latis allows you to account for each layer of packaging used in an individual product, and achieve a more accurate assessment of your product carbon footprint. With more than 80 packaging materials to choose from, Latis offers unparalleled granularity into your products’ packaging emissions.

Interested in learning more on how you can use Latis to fast-track your sustainability goals? Contact your Customer Success Manager.