Greenhouse Emissions ReportingEnvironmental Management & reporting software for NGER, EEO, CDP,

The True Cost of Managing Your EmissionsCollating data sourced from dozens (if not hundreds) of spreadsheets produced by contractors and project managers, cross checking against invoices from the Accounts department, incorporating other files sent to you by department heads from around the business and from subsidiary businesses....

Then produce multiple external reports that are compliant with various pieces of legislation, internal reports that show the corporations environmental initiatives are having a positive impact on the CO2e footprint of the company - and possibly demonstrate a cost benefit of initiatives.

Unfortunately you don't have all the information as some of your project managers have not been able to provide all the environmental data requested while they were working in the field, and some of your sub contractors have no information about the emissions they produce or energy they consume.

The amount of information & data relevant to the environmental part of a business faced with mandatory reporting is comparable to the volume of information and data produced within the finance department. However - this information is currently being managed by most corporations within spreadsheets, and with no backup from the IT Department.

The recent NGER legislation exposes your organisation to both an audit risk and financial risk of up to $220 000 for non-compliance with The NGER Act. (or download the NGER Quick Facts guide).

Ndevr's Greenhouse Emissions Reporting solution simplifies and streamlines the reporting process across the business

 

Complexities - Defining Operational Boundaries - Managing Sub Contractor DataThe following information is loosly extracted from the NGER regulations,
A corporation is considered to have operational control over a facility if it has the authority to introduce and implement operating, health and safety, and environmental policies.
Operational control can be difficult to establish when there are third party managers or operators of facilities and when contractors and subcontractors are present at a facility - the corporation with operational control is responsible for collecting contractor data and incorporating the data in its own report - this is because the corporation is percieved as having the greatest authority with regards to implementing OH&S or Environmental Policies.

As an Organisation how can you ensure that you are provided with all the relevant data by your sub contractors? What if the sub contractor is only able to provide you with information relating to the total amount of fuel purchased in another state where some of that fuel has been used on a job not run by your company?

Ndevr's Greenhouse Emissions Reporting solution provides a secure sub-contractor portal which can be used by sub-contractors and project managers alike to enter raw data while on site (via a web connection). The data can automatically be matched off by the system according to purchase order's, job numbers. This ensures that the data being collected by the company with operational control is collected in accordance with the principles of the act, and is complete.

Implementing The Software - Pre-concieved Problems Are no Longer An Issue The argument against implementing some environmental software solutions is that the amount of additional work, additional training and additional data that would be collected and managed by an existing department is enough to make it apparent that the department may have to take on extra staff as well as invest in a substantial amount of both legislative and systems training.

Other Environmental Management Software solutions on the market today require staff to enter data into multiple systems - in some cases resulting in a duplication of data. Some systems require that you trust them completely with your financial information (aka Outsourcing) as well as your environmental data.

However, your business will still need someone fully trained to gather the all the information internally and then transfer the information to a third party via an arduous data entry process. Even those claiming electronic upload require that the data be presented in the form of a csv file for upload (but where does the data for the csv file come from....someone internally still has to gather the data and manually entering it into a spreadsheet).

Ndevr's Greenhouse Emissions Reporting solution is built within your existing ERP System - there is no duplication of data. The collection of data is handled at the transaction level and is completely seamless.

At one customer the impact to staff was described as "negligible".

Click Here To Read The Abigroup Case Study

 

Environmental Management Software Changing Behaviours At The Individual Level - A True Story Internal resistance to change is a big issue for many organisations, however usually that change is limited to learning a different way of going about ones job - what if providing staff with operational data that they've never previously had access to resulted in staff changing their individual behaviour while in the workplace, and encouraging other individuals within the business to also change their behaviour?

The AP Team at Abigroup was initially resistant to the NGER software, as they perceieved that they would be asked to do a substantial amount of extra data entry - however, not only have they adapted to the new solution very quickly - but it has given the team a personal level of insight into the impact that their actions in the workplace have on the Environment. The result is that they now actively participate in Abigroups environmental workplace initiatives and encourage others in the business to do more to reduce the CO2e footprint of the business......

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Contact us to obtain a copy of the full system overview - or arrange a demonstration nger@ndevr.com.au