Carbon Connect pushes sustainability for Harbec and Elstat
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Contract injection moulding manufacturer firm Harbec and refrigeration equipment supplier Elstat are to implement Epicor's carbon accounting software into their exiting ERP solutions, with a goal of tracking and reducing their carbon footprints.
Says William Holden, environmental innovator at Elstat: "Our business is sustainability focused, [so] for us it's key to our continued success to implement an internal infrastructure that will support our core objectives in the long term."
Meanwhile, according to Bob Bechtold, president and founder of Harbec, his company needed a monthly report covering sustainability metrics. "Those metrics are as serious to us as other common business metrics like financial reporting," he says.
Elstat has been using a manual carbon tracking system in Excel, which Holden says became inadequate. "We needed to eliminate the data gathering burden -- and the fact that we can integrate our carbon accounting into our existing ERP system was one of the main benefits we saw of selecting Epicor Carbon Connect," he explains.
As for Harbec, Bechtold says that the firm is currently in the thres of pursuing certification to the ISO 50001 energy management systems standard, which requires systematic documentation of carbon emissions.
"Having credible documentation that comes from a robust ERP solution will allow us to quantify what we're doing," insists Bechtold. "Any company can compensate for its carbon emissions by purchasing offsets, but this solution will enable Harbec to efficiently and accurately track our carbon footprint, helping us to manage it toward zero, through efficiencies and smarter power generation."
