Product Footprints for Manufacturers: Turning Product Data Into A Competitive Advantage
Food manufacturers have to stay up to date with the needs of their clients in food service, wholesale, and retail. Today, this means having an audit-grade product footprint at the ready. With our Product Footprint tool, manufacturers can confidently calculate, manage, and share high-quality environmental impact data for their entire product range. A product footprint is a reflection of a brand – it recognises the decisions that are made to source responsibly and reduce the impact of manufacturing processes. In a competitive space, product footprints help manufacturers tell their story and stand out from the crowd.
Mandatory reporting may be slow to arrive in every corner of the globe, but the biggest food businesses are already reporting their Scope 3 Emissions.
As partners to some of the UK and Europe’s largest retail, wholesale, and food service companies, we know the pressure they’re under to meet their Net Zero and sustainability targets and be leaders in the space.
But they can’t do it alone. Food manufacturers and producers are a crucial piece of the puzzle.
Increased calls for transparency across the supply chain mean food service and retail giants will be going to their suppliers for verified, audit-ready product footprints across their entire product range.
Foodsteps wants to ensure that actors at every stage of the food supply chain have access to the best tools, the most trustworthy data, and the same level of service and support.
In a highly competitive space, no one can afford to get it wrong. A mistake at this level could see lost contracts, failed audits, or simply spending time that you don’t have on manual reporting.
Our Product Footprinting tool takes away the guesswork – and the headache – and creates verifiable product footprints we know food service, wholesale, and retail partners will trust. Because they’re our partners too.
Key Capabilities and Benefits
Utilise existing data
Whether we have access to detailed primary data for ingredient, packaging and processing facilities, or a manufacturer is at the start of their sustainability journey, our platform uses the best available information to produce a reliable, credible footprint for every product. We can incorporate assessments of the impact of each supplier input and use any system boundary to calculate a product footprint in line with leading industry guidelines such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and LED4Food.
Scale with your business
From a user-friendly interface to custom data pipelines and integrations, our system scales with you – no manual spreadsheets required.
Access highly granular emissions factors
Our calculations use location- and activity-specific data for ingredients and products across all stages of the value chain, providing a level of accuracy and detail that generic tools simply can't match. This means that when a food manufacturer goes to the trouble of sourcing lower-impact ingredients from different locations or grown with a different method, it gets reflected in the product footprint sent to their customer.
Identify impact hotspots
Our tools analyse ingredients and processes to uncover exactly where there is the greatest opportunity to decarbonise. This helps producers efficiently and effectively focus their impact reduction efforts.
Comply with industry standards
A product footprint calculated with Foodsteps meets the requirements of leading retailers and food service providers for auditable Scope 3 assessments. We work directly with some of the biggest names in food service and retail, and we ensure that the data we produce is the data they’ll trust.
Our Product Footprint tool allows food manufacturers to build out assessments for their entire product range that meet Scope 3 reporting requirements, every time. Our solutions use best-in-class modelling and tech, without a high financial or time cost.
However your data looks now, at whatever level of maturity, we can help you turn it into something your clients will trust.
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