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title: "Supply Chain ESG Platform: Traceability and Compliance | Volcanic Minds"
description: "Digitalizing sustainability: discover how we built an ESG platform for the supply chain, emissions monitoring and regulatory compliance."
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# ESG platform for the production supply chain

A complete system to collect, calculate and share environmental performance along the entire production supply chain, from energy consumption to transport, with reports compliant with ISO and GHG Protocol standards.

## Key numbers

To be successful, a project must have measurable metrics

- **6** Categories mapped
- **+89%** Reporting
- **3** Compliance standards
- **∞** Suppliers and operating units

## The challenge

The starting point

Companies operating within complex production supply chains face a paradox: they need increasingly granular and verifiable ESG data, but they want fast tools that don't divert focus from the real business.

The tools exist, but greater reliability is needed, with certain calculations and a more fluid, integrated way to comply with the directives.

## The problem we found

The CSRD directive (EU 2022/2464) requires sustainability reporting from many organizations. But **the real challenge isn't regulatory, it's operational**. How do you collect consumption data from plants on different continents? How do you distribute the calculated emissions along the chain?

### ESG data collection along the entire supply chain

Replace fragmented collection from different channels with a system that maps every operating unit, every consumption category and every supply-chain actor in a single source of truth, eliminating the dependency on generic industry estimates and benchmarks.

### CO₂e emissions calculation with recognized standards

Transform raw consumption data (electricity, fuels, refrigerants, water, transport) into emissions expressed in tCO₂e through emission factors compliant with ISO 14064, the GHG Protocol and other official frameworks, making the calculation repeatable and mitigating human error.

### Transparent data sharing between companies in the chain

Let each company share its own emissions with customers and receive those of suppliers in a standardized format, creating a bidirectional flow of ESG information along the supply chain that every party can verify and integrate into its own sustainability report.

### An economically sustainable platform with a SaaS model

Implement a self-service subscription system with differentiated plans, recurring payments (credit card and bank direct debit via Stripe) and autonomous license management — so that each company in the chain can adopt the platform independently and at scale.

## Features under review

Focus on features and solutions

## The entry point

Emissions Dashboard

The platform's entry point is a dashboard that shows the company's total emissions in tCO₂e for the selected period, associated with customers and suppliers, with an immediate breakdown by consumption category: electricity, refrigerant, fuel, company freight transport and outsourced transport. Each card shows the numeric value in tonnes of CO₂ equivalent.

## The thread that connects

Supply Chain Management

The supply chain is organized around three points: _company_ to map its own operating units, _clients_ i.e. the companies you sell products or services to, and as _suppliers_ the companies you buy from.

From here you can directly share ESG data with clients thanks to pre-defined allocation rules.

## Awareness

Detailed Consumption

Each operating unit (whether an industrial warehouse, a central warehouse or a plant) has its own card with address, total emissions for the period and a breakdown of consumption.

There are six categories: electricity, fuel, refrigerant, water, heat/steam and direct process emissions.

## A repeatable process

Sharing emissions

Sharing the calculated and allocated data is designed in two steps: first the system checks which consumption categories have not yet been filled in (with a warning per operating unit and missing category), then it shows the summary of the emissions that will be shared, broken down by recipient customer and value in tCO₂e. On confirmation, it sends the reports to the selected customers.

Every company in the chain that registers on the platform automatically finds the received data, integrating it into its own sustainability report without manual re-entry.

## Do you have a similar project?

Managing advanced processes and reports, as well as organizing a production chain, requires a system built on the real logic of your business and with expected, measurable goals.

## Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about the project

### What did you actually handle?

The project covered the technical and implementation analysis, the database architecture, the artifacts for containerization, the development of the backend and the frontend including the license-automation and payment parts typical of a SaaS product.

Our key partner in the ESG sector provided the GHG, ISO 14064 and other calculation procedures in order to make the platform perfectly aligned with the precision required by European regulations.

### How are emissions calculated in tCO₂e?

The platform converts raw consumption (kWh of electricity, liters of fuel, kg of refrigerant, km of transport) into tonnes of CO₂ equivalent using emission factors compliant with the ISO 14064 and GHG Protocol standards. The calculation is automated, thanks to the expertise of our client who provided APIs and procedures, so it becomes repeatable and auditable: every entered datum is tracked with a timestamp, source operating unit and validation status.

### How does ESG data sharing with customers and suppliers work?

The flow has two steps: first the system checks which consumption is not yet filled in and flags the gaps per operating unit. Then it shows a summary of the emissions allocated to each recipient customer with VAT number and value in tCO₂e. Sharing happens with one click and generates a PDF report sent by email. If the recipient registers on the platform, they find the data automatically without having to re-enter it.

### What does it mean that you introduced subscription models?

The platform offers differentiated plans that enable different levels of functionality and number of manageable operating units. Each company can choose its own plan independently and pay by credit card or bank direct debit via Stripe, with automatic renewal manageable from the Licenses section of the company profile. Plan changes, payment-method management and renewal deactivation are completely self-service, thus reducing the need for human oversight for all operations and making it necessary only in edge and out-of-line cases, which translates into an economic advantage and optimization of internal staff resources.

### How does the system adapt to the growth of the corporate group?

The multi-company architecture is native: emissions are associated with specific companies, and even if those companies (suppliers or customers) are not yet present, once they register they can also claim the consumption and emissions attributed to them. Adding a new company is done independently and without needing intervention from other people.

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