As corporate sustainability initiatives take on an increasingly central role in companies' operations, the need for systems to efficiently manage and report on the voluminous data associated with annual sustainability reports is growing. IHS's Sustainability Solution is an enterprise software solution to help manage the large body of disparate data associated with your company's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report with increased efficiency, accuracy and transparency. The software helps you manage your corporate EHS and sustainability data by leveraging your existiing intranet and messaging platform for enterprise-wide data collection and reporting. The software helps you track most any metric at any frequency, with rollup capabilities that streamline annual report preparation by allowing the report to be generated from a single, centralized database. Whether you are creating a report using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework or some other framework, the software is flexible to accommodate any and all metrics you track. From energy usage to emissions data to injury reporting and more, the software puts the information you need at your fingertips and delivers the data with minimal time spent. Use to prepare:
- Annual Corporate EHS Reports
- GRI, ISO 14001, Responsible Care and other Sustainability Reports
- Benchmarking Reports
Measurable Benefits
The software streamlines your sustainability reporting program and delivers strong return on investment by helping you:
- Adhere to GRI Guidelines: By replacing multiple spreadsheets and data tracking approaches with a single uniform, centralized, system, the software allows increased confidence in both the accuracy and the transparency of your CSR data and helps you conform to established GRI principles of Transparency, Inclusiveness, Auditability and Completeness.
- Roll up Data Corporate-wide: The software lets you save time and reduce the costs of annual EHS reporting by easily generating rollup reports across business units and geographies.
- Enable Benchmarking: The system facilitates comparison between facilities and operating units, allowing you to call out best practices to drive performance improvement.
- Eliminate Lag Time in Corporate Reporting: Since data is stored centrally, corporate rollup reports on any desired metrics can be generated at any time. This allows you to track and monitor your sustainability performance throughout the year, giving you the opportunity to analyse performance and implement improvement measures as issues come to the surface.
- Facilitate Corporate-Wide Reporting: Rollup reports allow you to plan better at the corporate level, thereby improving operations and reducing costs. A web-based user interface allows staff in any part of the company to enter relevant data at any time. And an 8-language user interface facilitates ease of adoption across your global operations.
