Industrial Companies

    Every supplier. Every line item. Every procurement decision.

    The Challenge

    Industrial companies face the most demanding Scope 3 environment in the economy: thousands of active suppliers, hundreds of thousands of line items per year, and procurement decisions that quietly lock in carbon exposure — and carbon cost — for the lifetime of an asset. Most carbon accounting tools fall back on spend-based estimates, which flatten out the real differences between suppliers, materials, and geographies. Procurement loses visibility into exactly the data that would let it buy better.

    CSRD and ESRS E1 have raised the regulatory bar. ETS and CBAM are raising the financial one. But the real opportunity is operational: when CO₂e is available at line-item level, it becomes a procurement KPI alongside price, lead time, and quality — and every sourcing decision becomes a chance to lower cost and emissions in the same move. That's sustainability as a business case, not a reporting burden.

    How Simple Helps

    Simple gives you Scope 1, 2, and 3 from the documents you already produce — invoices for backward-looking compliance, quotations for forward-looking procurement intelligence.

    Supplier benchmarking by CO₂e per unit. Compare suppliers not just on price, but on carbon intensity per kilogram, per metre, per unit. Identify which suppliers drive your emissions — and which offer lower-carbon alternatives.

    Indicative ETS cost per tonne. As carbon pricing tightens across Europe, Simple maps your procurement exposure to current and projected ETS costs. Plan procurement with carbon cost visibility before you commit.

    Automated vendor consolidation. AI identifies duplicates, name changes, and typos across your supplier base. Clean vendor data is a prerequisite for meaningful emissions analysis — Simple handles it automatically.

    Quotation analysis for forward planning. Don't wait for the invoice to arrive. Process supplier quotations to get indicative CO₂e values during the bidding phase. Plan procurement, not just report it.

    Standards & Compliance

    • CSRD / ESRS E1 — Granular Scope 3 data at the level regulators increasingly demand
    • GHG Protocol — Activity-based methodology using the three-tier emission factor hierarchy (EPD/PCF → ecoinvent → spend-based proxy)
    • ETS exposure mapping — Connect procurement data to carbon pricing for strategic cost management
    • Vendor data quality — Automated harmonisation reduces the noise in supplier-level emissions analysis

    Get Started

    See what your invoices reveal about your carbon exposure. Upload your first document and get results in minutes.

    Try it with your own document. Right now.

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