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Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Manufacturers face sustainability requirements arriving from two directions at once: from customers above them, and from suppliers below them.

Carbon measurement, Scope 3, supply-chain requirements and sustainable procurement.

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// Context

What makes this sector different

For manufacturers, the pressure is commercial before it is regulatory. Customers request emissions data as a condition of supply, tenders carry sustainability criteria, and EU-bound goods in covered categories now sit inside the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

At the same time the majority of a manufacturer's footprint typically sits in purchased goods and services -- upstream, in a supply base that has its own data limitations.

The organisations that handle this well treat it as a data and procurement problem rather than a reporting one. They establish product-level and site-level measurement they can reuse, and they build supplier requirements into how they buy rather than into a separate questionnaire.

// Priorities

What organisations in this sector are working on

  • Site and organisational emissions measurement that customers will accept
  • Scope 3 screening, with measurement focused on purchased goods and logistics
  • Product-level footprint and life cycle assessment for customer requirements
  • CBAM exposure assessment and embedded emissions data for EU-bound goods
  • Sustainable procurement requirements built into tenders and contracts
  • Energy and environmental management systems that reduce cost as well as emissions

// Solutions

How CER helps manufacturing & supply chain organisations

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