Apparel & Textile Suppliers

    Answer every buyer's carbon data request.

    The Challenge

    European fashion and retail brands now report the emissions of their supply chains, and they collect that data from their factories. Every year, garment, textile and knitwear suppliers receive requests for energy use and Scope 1 and 2 emissions, through Higg FEM, CDP or each brand's own supplier portal. Each buyer asks in a slightly different format, and the figures have to match every time. Most factories answer from spreadsheets assembled by the compliance team, with no audit trail behind the numbers. Consultants are expensive, and free calculators produce a figure a buyer cannot check. As brands tighten their supplier requirements, a factory that cannot answer clearly risks losing its place on the approved supplier list.

    How Simple Helps

    Simple turns the bills you already receive into emissions data. Upload electricity, gas, diesel and other fuel invoices, as PDFs or phone photos, and Simple returns structured Scope 1 and 2 emissions, with the quantity, emission factor and source document behind every figure. Calculations follow the GHG Protocol and use the electricity grid factor for your country.

    No sustainability team required. No questionnaires filled in by hand, no system integration, no specialist knowledge. Your compliance team uploads the documents and Simple handles the calculation.

    One set of figures for every buyer. Reuse the same traceable numbers for each brand you supply, so your answers are consistent whether a buyer asks through Higg FEM, CDP or its own portal.

    Data a buyer can check. Every figure links back to the bill it came from. When a brand or an auditor asks how a number was calculated, the answer is in the data.

    Ready for Scope 3. When buyers ask for upstream emissions, the same process covers purchase invoices for fabric, yarn, trims and chemicals, and freight invoices for transport.

    Why Buyers Are Asking

    • Brand supplier programmes : European apparel brands ask their tier 1 and tier 2 factories for energy and emissions data every year, and set reduction expectations on top
    • Higg Facility Environmental Module : energy and greenhouse gas data from your bills is the core of the FEM energy section
    • CDP Supply Chain : brands invite suppliers to disclose emissions and methodology through CDP
    • CSRD / ESRS E1 : European brands now report value chain emissions, which depend on their suppliers' data
    • EU value-chain cap : from FY2027, large European companies can ask suppliers with 1,000 employees or fewer for Scope 1 and location-based Scope 2, the scope Simple calculates from your invoices

    Get Started

    Upload an electricity or fuel bill and see your Scope 1 and 2 result, with every figure traced to its source. Or book a call to discuss the requests your buyers are sending.

    Trusted Standards

    Built on globally recognised standards, ensuring every calculation is defensible, transparent, and ready for audit. Underpinned by industry-leading datasets including GHG Protocol and ecoinvent — ensuring accuracy and trust in every calculation.

    GHG Protocol
    ISO 14044
    ISO 27007
    Ecoinvent

    Three steps. Zero guesswork.

    From raw invoices & quotations to carbon intelligence — report the past, see the now, plan the future.

    Full methodology
    01

    Upload any business document

    Invoices, BOMs, quotations, energy bills — past purchases for compliance reporting, open offers for forward planning.

    02

    AI matches to best available factor

    Each line item is classified and matched to the most specific emission factor available — manufacturer PCF, EPD, or recognised background database. Geography-specific, version-logged, auditable.

    03

    Intelligence — backward and forward

    Compliance reports from invoices. Indicative carbon exposure from quotations. Supplier benchmarks to act on — not just numbers to file.

    Built for your reality — regulatory and operational.

    Compliance reporting from past documents. Carbon exposure forecasting from quotations. Both, from the same platform.

    Industrial & Manufacturing

    Full Scope 1, 2, and 3 — plus forward-looking carbon exposure from supplier quotes. Automated vendor consolidation keeps your supplier data clean.

    CSRD · ESRS E1Scope 1 · 2 · 3ETS cost forecastingVendor consolidation
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    Banks & Financial Institutions

    Enable your SME borrowers to deliver emissions data automatically — at no meaningful burden to them. Better portfolio data for financed emissions and SLL covenants.

    PCAFEBA GL 2025/01SLL EnablingGreen Asset Ratio
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    SMEs & Mid-Market

    Your large customers need your emissions data to complete their own reporting. Simple gives you the answer — no Excel, no specialist knowledge, no heavy process.

    Supply chain requestsCustomer CSRD dataNo ERP needed
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    ESG Consultants

    Deliver Scope 3 data collection across your client portfolio faster — with multi-entity management and white-label options. Simple scales with your practice.

    Multi-clientWhite-labelPartner programme
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    Construction & Real Estate

    Carbon decisions happen at tender stage. Simple processes quotations and BOMs to put indicative CO₂e — including ETS cost exposure — into every bid comparison before you commit.

    Quotation processingEPD integrationLEED · BREEAMEU Taxonomy
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    SaaS & E-Invoicing Platforms

    Embed carbon intelligence directly into your invoicing or accounting product via API. Your users get GHG Protocol-compliant CO₂e data on every document they process — automatically, with no added workflow.

    Public REST APIWhite-label readyPer-line-item outputAny language/format
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    Resources

    Stay ahead of what's coming.

    Curated research on CSRD, PCAF, and supply chain emissions — updated regularly.

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    Try it with your own document. Right now.

    No credit card required — upload an invoice or quotation and see the result in seconds.