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Procurement · 9 December 2025

Marketplaces & efficiency

How to use external catalogues.

The green market: transparency drives prices down

How to use external catalogues and offset emissions directly in the process.

You have the strategy. But if your buyer has to spend 30 minutes googling every toner cartridge, process costs are too high. Efficiency is the key in day-to-day business.

A look at the platform: the operational engine

A look at the platform: the operational engine

For day-to-day business we use the module Sustainable procurement. This is where the strength of the platform economy shows. ZEROvia connects you with external partners (light grey):

  1. Sustainable marketplaces & catalogues: your staff access sorted catalogues from external providers. The data (prices, CO2) flows straight back into the system.
  2. CO2 offsetting: want to make a flight or a freight shipment climate neutral? Use integrated offsetting services from partners directly from the ordering process.

Investing rather than just offsetting

Through the integration you see the emissions before you order. This lets you choose products with a better CO2 footprint, instead of offsetting expensively later.

Conclusion

Operational procurement becomes child's play.

External catalogues save time, and the integration secures data quality (“One Data Set”).

Outlook

To hold all these threads together, you need a cockpit.

Read Part 5: The supplier portal & ROI to see how this pays off.

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