Solution Overview

i-nexus provides a comprehensive carbon & energy management solution which is used by global leaders such as Nestlé and Novartis to drive environmental initiatives across their organization and assist with their carbon reduction reporting.

Key Challenges

• Manual data collection for carbon reduction reporting from every site/facility can become time consuming and a drain on resources
• Spreadsheets are often used to manage the data and because of the manual nature of the inputs there is opportunity for error and confusion in the process of consolidating, validating, converting and aggregating the raw spreadsheet inputs from each facility into one report
• There are often difficulties in converting the inputs into a common carbon emission unit of measure e.g. CO2-e (CO2 equivalent tonnes)
• Forecasting accurately the carbon and energy reductions that are realizable from the existing initiatives and the effort involved in maintaining these forecasts in synchronization with the operational plans as project milestones can also be problematic
• Evaluating environmental capital investment project opportunities and calculating payback/ROI on environment investments (CO2-e dollars vs. capex dollars) also becomes a complex process.

Carbon & Energy Management StartPoint solution

The i-nexus carbon and energy management software enables customers to:

• Use the financial aggregation structure and exchange rate tables to model emissions, energy, waste and water impacts for carbon reduction reporting
• Manage and track environmental initiatives using the full projects functionality and use pre-defined project templates to replicate best practice
• Manage environmental projects requiring capital investment using the i-nexus Capital Expenditure tracking capability
• Forecast potential benefits e.g emission reduction and energy use reductions, capture actual (secured) reductions resulting from environmental initiatives (including workflow validation of forecasts or actual if appropriate)
• Generate standard carbon reduction reporting to enable evaluation of environmental capital investment ROI (based on conversion of environmental impacts to monetary value)
• Use the portals to create carbon emissions/energy consumption dashboards at multiple levels in the organization
• Automatically update metric KPI's target, forecast and actual data series based on business unit financial aggregations
• Use of project opportunity scoring to review and prioritize environmental initiatives
• Model the assets/facilities of the organization for consolidating/reporting by using the category hierarchies  

Carbon and Energy Management Software StartPoint Solution Benefits 

Organizations adopting the i-nexus Carbon & Energy Management software solution are frequently astounded at how easy it is to deploy and use. The spreadsheet-like interface means there are minimal training requirements and we can have you up and running in a matter of days. In addition to eliminating virtually all non-value added effort involved in carbon reduction reporting and managing these initiatives we are seeing a significant improvement in execution ‘follow through' (the proportion of actions that actually get done).

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