ESG

Four things in the order the conversation happens: what really matters (materiality), where we are (indicators calculated from the ERP itself), how much we emit (estimate based on expenses) and what we can claim (claims validator).

In the Environmental self-assessment block, pick the framework (Higg FEM or Green to Wear) and the year. Each numeric question shows up answered with what the factory already records: energy from energy metering and dye lots, water and steam from dye lots, production, loss declared on shipments and dye lots with a recipe. The basis says whether it is measured, estimated (like scope 2, which uses the energy emission factor) or missing. Save keeps the year's snapshot; Export downloads the CSV to upload to the questionnaire.

They all come from payroll, finance, the org chart, approval policies and the audit trail. Each one comes with its calculation open and the link to the source screen. An indicator that has to be typed in gets stale in the first week.

The calculation is classified expense × average emission factor per real spent, with the factor's source stated. It's good for order of magnitude and trend — it doesn't replace a certified inventory, and the screen will never say it does. The percentage coverage always appears: an estimate without stated coverage is advertising.

Greenwashing is rarely a deliberate lie: it's a nice sentence written before anyone checked. That's why every claim needs to point to an indicator WITH calculated data; without that it stays a draft, doesn't go into the report and the AI refuses to write it.

Don't try to measure everything. Choose the topics that combine what your customer demands with what affects your business — and link each material topic to a plan objective. A material topic without an objective is good intentions without an owner.