The green market: transparency pushes down prices
How to use external catalogs and offset emissions directly in the process.
You have the strategy. But if your buyer has to spend 30 minutes googling for every toner, the process costs are too high. Efficiency is the key in day-to-day business.
A look inside the platform: the operational engine
For day-to-day business, we use the module Sustainable purchasing. This shows the strength of the platform economy. ZEROvia connects you with external partners (light gray):
- Sustainable marketplaces & catalogs: Your employees access sorted catalogs from external providers. The data (prices, CO2) flows directly back into the system.
- CO2 compensation: Do you want to make a flight or freight shipment climate-neutral? Use integrated offsetting services from partners directly from the ordering process.
Investing instead of just compensating
The integration allows you to see the emissions before You order. This allows you to choose products with a better carbon footprint instead of having to offset them later at great expense.
Conclusion
Operational purchasing becomes child's play.
External catalogs save time, integration ensures data quality („One Data Set“).
Outlook
To hold all these threads together, you need a cockpit.
Read in Part 5: The supplier portal & ROI, how that works out.