Check this Onboarding Video, the text below refers to it.
🌿 How to Use the Supplier Engagement Module
Engaging your suppliers is essential for collecting high-quality, granular data—especially for Scope 3 emissions. This guide walks you through the entire Supplier Engagement flow on the platform so you can maximize data quality and drive climate impact.
✅ Why engage suppliers?
By default, emissions are often calculated using average emission factors. When you engage suppliers, you can gather supplier-specific emission factors, leading to:
More accurate carbon footprint
Better reporting (e.g., CSRD, SBTi)
Targeted supplier action
📂 Step 1: Upload your supplier list
Go to your dashboard or Activity Overview > Supplier Module.
You can upload your supplier data in two ways:
Manual entry: Add supplier name, email, address, business unit, etc.
File import: Use our template (available in the module)
🔍 Tip: The more info you include (emails, IDs, addresses), the easier it is to match and engage suppliers later.
📊 Step 2: Populate your activity and accounting modules
Once your suppliers are uploaded:
Go to your Activity and Accounting modules.
Ensure each row of data (e.g., travel, purchases) includes a supplier name.
Use the exact same names as in your uploaded supplier list to enable matching.
⚠️ If names don’t match exactly, some manual work might be needed after
🔗 Step 3: Match suppliers with our database
After uploading and populating data:
Go to the matching interface.
See the % of Scope 3 emissions per supplier to prioritize who to engage.
For each supplier:
Match them to a known supplier in our database, or
Manually confirm that there’s no match and input placeholder data
🎯 Focus on suppliers responsible for the largest % of your emissions.
📬 Step 4: Send the supplier survey (NZC only)
You can request:
Scope 3 data
SBTi/CSRD compliance
MACO (custom company-specific data)
Choose your preferred language, then generate & send the survey.
📈 Step 5: Track supplier progress
In the Supplier section, you’ll find:
My Suppliers
Survey completion status
Data provided (e.g., GHG reports, SBTi compliance)
Green scores and climate maturity indicators
Greenly Catalogue
Access to 50,000+ suppliers already in our database
Find alternative, more sustainable suppliers
Analytics
Engagement status overview
Top emitting suppliers
SBTi objectives & green scores
🕒 When to start?
Start at the beginning of your data collection process.
If you delay supplier engagement:
You’ll need to re-upload data to get emission attribution.
You may lose valuable insights on supplier-specific impacts.