The cost of fuel and energy is increasing, from unpredictable oil prices and a cost on carbon to erratic climatic patterns disrupting supply and ever increasing legislation and compliance requirements.
Furthermore, increasing concern over water quality and scarcity and increasing pressure to reduce waste to landfill shows inevitable cost increases which have already begun to directly affect businesses from its fleet to its operations and supply chain.
Opportunities exist for every business to identify and realise savings in their resources. Often savings of 20% on an organisations energy bill are possible. In some industries this equates to a bottom line benefit of a 5% increase in sales*.
FoundationFootprint™ is a platform for cost savings, more efficient use of resources and real time decision making
FoundationFootprint™ is a web based, real time carbon footprint and resource management system consisting of four primary modules.
The Carbon Management Module
- specifically designed to measure and tracking an organisations carbon footprint and provides in-depth analysis and management capability
- tracks and manages resources such as electricity, gas, fuel, water, waste, raw materials, supply chain emissions and staff business travel
- tracks Scope 1, 2 and 3 including fugitive emissions
- provides full audit trails for internal and third party verification and meets the full requirements of the leading global carbon footprint standards, the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and ISO 14064
The Energy Management Module
- provides in-depth analysis of current and historic electricity data at every level of the organisation
- invoices are electronically transferred from suppliers to FoundationFootprint™ and kWh usage from Time of Use and smart meters
- real time business intelligence shows trends and ratios such as seasonal change, energy costs and kWhs per day as well as intensity ratios defined by organisations output
- links site energy audits with facility energy data, reduction targets and clean tech investments ( Return On Investment Manager required - see below )
The Universal Bill Manager
- a fast, accurate and efficient way of approving hundreds of invoices electronically
- suppliers and tariffs are set up in the system and invoices are transferred electronically from suppliers to FoundationFootprint™ each month
- tariffs are automatically checked
- significant variances from the previous month and year are highlighted per account
- approval managers can approve, decline or query invoices. Comments, queries and supplier responses are all stored in the system building up a history of each account
- invoices can be automatically input in to the organisations financial systems directly from the Universal Bill Manager
- invoices are transferred automatically to the Carbon and Energy Management modules
The Return on Investment (ROI) Manager
- allows conclusive tracking of the return on investment of a clean tech or energy efficiency initiative
- by selecting the participating facilities, entering project costs and a range of expected reductions, the ROI Manager tracks progress throughout the lifetime of the project
- current electricity or resource data from suppliers is automatically presented alongside historic and projected data for the selected facilities and recalculates your return on investment each month
- these reports provide conclusive evidence for an organisation's management team to make decisions and encourages further investment and cost savings
FoundationFootprint™ also has the ability to add compliance modules to meet the unique requirements of different emissions regulations around the world.
* Carbon Trust UK