Sustainability Data Management

The Sustainability Data Card comprises three views in one screen:

1. General information (e.g., on your product, supplier etc.) derived from your MDM.

2. A list of the assessments the product is measured against, including the product's completeness status.

3. Additional master data references that are relevant for sustainability assessment, e.g., location, packaging and material.

Multidomain Master Data Management is designed to consolidate and unify data about products, suppliers, locations, assets and customers. This means, out of the box, it offers data governance capabilities that can help you achieve sustainability goals:

• Collect, harmonize, connect, govern and share data.
• Take advantage of a flexible open data model.
• Build hierarchies and inheritance of values.
• Set up business rules and approval workflows.
• Design your own scorecards and dashboards.
• Aggregate and publish to multiple formats and reports.
• Enable data stewardship, quality and governance.
• Integrate with any business application or third-party software.

Data governance principles facilitate the necessary collaboration between data and sustainability teams.

1. Sustainability specialists decide which goals your products or suppliers need to be measured against.
2. Data experts build the assessments in the MDM platform.
3. The sustainability specialists review and approve the assessments.
4. Finally, the sustainability officer applies assessment to relevant data cards.

In this process, all the data governance capabilities of MDM can apply, including data quality, workflow, approvals, renewal reminders, sufficiency criteria, stewardship and audit trail.

Continue to manage your company assets in their respective applications just as you are used to. Use the Sustainability Data Cards to record specific sustainability data of those assets and link the information.

The separation of product information and sustainability data ensures performance and simplicity of data management. It also enables collaboration between product owners and sustainability data specialists, without impacting business-as-usual.

Configuring Sustainability Data Cards on top of the Multidomain MDM platform with its robust data management and governance capabilities underpins the solution and efficiently facilitates compliance.

The Sustainability Data Card enables you to define assessments and the associated compliance criteria and then record the compliance information related to products, suppliers and locations needed to complete sustainability reports – without reconfiguring or recoding your product information management (PIM).

In fact, you can use this framework to manage any kind of regulatory compliance, not just sustainability.

A large ecosystem of third-party data providers exists to help you enrich and validate your sustainability data. Stibo Systems' open integration framework enables you to connect with and leverage a range of agencies, data pools and business partners.