Environmental ERP for Greener Businesses
Going green is a necessity. However, with increasing government regulation around the world on carbon output, businesses will be the first to feel the economic squeeze.
Companies are going to have to find some emissions leak in their operations to comply with requirements. To calculate and account for carbon output, a company may try extending their existing accounting system or specifically purchasing a carbon-counting application.
However, Greg Scandrett, vice president of product management for Enviance, says that both of those options are only short-term fixes. Enviance is a provider of self-proclaimed environmental ERP software. The ERP provider believes that businesses need a different approach to environmental applications in order to make truly effective choices. Company processes have to be taken holistically to come up with the most environmentally optimal strategy.
An example may be the decision to create a new, more efficient factor to lower carbon emissions. However, if the factory is too far off, suppliers may have to use more energy in order to ship to the location. The Enviance application takes all these sorts of factors into account, sayas Scandrett, as opposed to software that simply counts up the amount of carbon emitted.
This echoes the sentiment that we need a green revolution. We cannot expect to do things halfway and make enough of a difference. There are fundamental problems in modern business practices that aren’t reflected financially, but are crippling to the environment. Full, comprehensive steps should be taken by companies to look at their carbon footprints. Environmental ERP can be a part of that environmental responsibility. Hopefully, with governmental market shaping and business innovation, we can have a new era where businesses are conscious of all social costs and will take measures against them.
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