Unlocking the Benefits of Sustainability Performance Management

A professional, customised sustainability performance management system unlocks the full benefits of sustainability management in an organisation.

Holistic sustainability management provides strategic, forward-looking insights that deliver a range of benefits to organisations, including reduced costs, increased revenues and more value.

Unlocking the full benefits of sustainability management, however, requires a broad, balanced focus encompassing the three pillars of sustainability – environment, people and the economy, and this is made possible through a professional, customised sustainability performance management system.

Aligning overall sustainability management performance data to the organisation’s management reporting and linking it to various Key Sustainability Indicators (KSIs) delivers vital information, sound insights and meaningful analysis of current and future overall sustainability performance. This can be harnessed to benchmark performance against internal targets and sector baselines; to identify areas for improvement; and to optimise productivity. All of this is achieved through an easily accessible, user-friendly and tailor-made sustainability performance management system such as EcoMetrix Africa’s EPCAM.

Ensuring a consistent methodology and accurate tracking of sustainability performance, the system also facilitates real-time monthly production data collection; allows for capturing consumption and activity data across multiple sites and companies; enables sustainability performance management through KSIs; and includes measurable indicators of direct and indirect GHG emissions. It can be used for both compliance with regards to GHG reporting and carbon tax, and to support the overall image of companies moving into a ‘greener’ future. Additionally, based on the needs of the business, the platform can be easily expanded to include other areas of sustainability such as safety, occupational health, product quality and workplace wellness.

Investing in a sustainability performance management system to monitor and analyse key sustainability indicators can provide overall performance of the site or company as well as identify opportunities, mitigate risks, optimise production, increase business performance and address climate change.

For more information about sustainability performance management systems or an introduction to EPCAM, please click HERE. If you have any questions, please email Lodewijk.Nell@ecometrix.co.za or henk.sa@ecometrix.co.za.