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.

    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

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

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