TCS Envirozone™

A nextgen solution

TCS Envirozone is a nextgen suite of solutions catering to five different net-zero requirements.

It offers these features  to organizations:

TCS ENVIROZONE™ OZONE – Powering responsible sourcing–: This tracks key SDG activities for risk and sustainability assessment by leveraging scenario analysis built on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI-ML) predictive systems. It supports different business compliances by on-boarding farmers or warehouse owners, customizing input screens for pre- and post-harvest data, and enhancing data accuracy for farmhouse or warehouse latitude and longitude details through Google geo-tagging.

TCS ENVIROZONE™ NetZero – Address carbon footprints through carbon management system:  Our NetZero functionality  brings inbuilt forecasting models and gives a detailed view of Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions across the value chain. The robust model helps meet the GHG (greenhouse gas emission) protocol requirements and SBTi (Science-based Targets initiative) and CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) and audits. TCS ENVIROZONE™ NetZero also enables build a strong industry-first auditable greenhouse performance management system for tracking and managing customer’s scope 1/2/3 carbon emissions at corporate level. The AI-ML system enables predict year-on-year emissions against the base year and the reduction target to achieve the goal in the earmarked year 

Our customers could leverage this uniquely designed, ready-to-deploy, sustainable line-haul application, which subsequently helps in estimating and managing carbon risks from freight emissions due to product transport and distributions, thereby supporting in carbon disclosure.

Circular products economy: It builds sustainable packaging solutions using 5R sustainable packaging framework and by recovering post-consumer plastic through IoT-based smart collection points for data connectivity and visibility to reduce plastic to landfills, thus achieving circular economy goals. The solution helps companies compare products and brands being sold in a locality and control brand risks. 

Decarbonization: In industries like power, transport, and real estate that are posited to undergo heavy decarbonization, there is high demand for technology services and solutions to meet sustainability goals. Enterprises are raising capital through green bonds and sustainability bonds to fund sustainability initiatives. 

As per a NASSCOM-McKinsey report of 2022, there will be $150-250 billion of additional enterprise spend towards sustainability enablement technology by 2030. Our module details carbon credits and carbon offsets, thereby monitoring and tracking carbon trading.

Finance forecasting and carbon allocation: This functionality will enable financial analysis basis forecasting model for standardization of emissions across the value chain. 

Benefits

TCS Envirozone provides the following benefits

• Enhanced traceability: Increases traceability of product packaging and supplier data to conduct scenario analysis for switching suppliers, raw materials, and geography. Audit traceability on supplier data for evidence submission for supply chain sustainability reporting.
  
• Compliance in reporting: Helps customers comply with reporting standards of ESG parameters 
• Sustainability performance: Reduces time for sustainability performance disclosure by up to 90-95%—from 10 months to two weeks, and creates perception of a responsible brand.
• Reduced ESG risks: Increases visibility on carbon allocation across the value chain to improve supplier sustainability and reduce ESG risks. Assesses carbon footprint of scopes 1, 2, and 3, including direct and indirect emissions, raw materials, upstream and downstream logistics and distribution, and fuel and energy. It empowers the customer  in enabling auditable carbon management  system . 
• Improved process time: Brings down costs by leveraging a reliable platform to cut down process time by 80%.
• Predictive systems and intuitive dashboards: Inbuilt AI-ML accelerators for predictive mechanism and effective decisioning by users; interactive dashboards make deriving insights easier.

The TCS advantage

A partnership with TCS can help businesses take advantage of the following key differentiators:

• Experience in delivering sustainability engagements with global customers: Our global database mapping platform obtains key sustainability factors from multiple external data sources and internal activity data systems, and provides sustainability performance assessment using globally accepted estimation methods and based on geographic, business-specific contextual understanding.
• Domain and technology expertise: TCS Business 4.0™ framework helps industries monetize digital transformation through four business behaviors—creating exponential value, driving mass personalization, leveraging ecosystem, and embracing risk. We help businesses achieve excellence through end-to-end transformation to drive value across diverse segments such as CPG, utility, retail, manufacturing, and financial services.
• Innovation labs and center of excellence: TCS’ experienced industry and domain professionals in innovation labs and TCS Sustainability Center of Excellence bring extensive expertise and a unique set of ideas and business models to accelerate customers’ sustainability journey. We help ensure environmental, climate, and social risks are addressed on time to help businesses propel forward into a low-carbon and socially inclusive world.