Planet Metrics' web-based Rapid Carbon Modeling (RCM)™ software helps organizations create and deploy innovative sustainability strategies.
Combining existing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories, and other enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) application data, Planet Metrics' Rapid Carbon Modeling approach and visualization tools synthesize complex, scientific data and processes into easy-to-use reports and dashboards. Your primary data is supplemented with Planet Metrics' extensive database of secondary data to maximize the accuracy of your footprint at a minimal cost. In under a month you will have the tools to:
- Quantify your baseline carbon footprint
- Breakdown emissions by product, geography, division and more
- Identify 'hotspots' and targets for carbon reduction
- Analyze material substitution, supplier change, carbon and energy price volatility scenarios, and potential carbon reduction projects
- Track changes to your carbon footprint over time
Our solutions can provide executives with a broad, comparative view of carbon intensity, energy price risk, and innovation opportunities across the enterprise:
- Operations - Facilities management, packaging for one or all product lines
- Logistics - Compare by transport mode or, from region to region
- By Products - One product, all products, product by category
- By Materials - Raw materials, intermediate (or aggregate) materials, and finished goods
- By Supplier - Compare by country of origin and transport modes
- By Energy Content - Type and amount of energy embodied in products, added through the supply chain
Our modeling system contains a large set of pre-built model libraries that we can deploy to fit any organization's circumstances. These libraries cover all typically used packaging materials, modes of transport, building and process energy use, and various materials that are in common use across manufacturing and retail organizations. Our libraries are combined with our database of global emissions factors, one of the world's largest, to generate realistic representations of your all-inclusive footprint.
Some of the features of the Planet Metrics RCM platform:
- Intuitive heatmap displays of GHG emissions and associated Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
- User-selectable views
- Zoom in / zoom out from global views to individual facilities, product parts, or processes.
- Save views for reports, and supporting data for internal validation and quality control
- Supports national and international emissions data
- What-if scenarios for cost of carbon and cost of energy
- What-if emissions and embodied energy scenarios for materials, process, and energy sources substitution
- Product, process, and material emissions factors customization