Sooner or later, almost every company will be required to report on their sustainability-related activities. Our ESG software EPACTO collates all relevant data, evaluates your sustainability performance and assists you in meeting your ESG reporting requirements – such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). With integrated partners and a modular structure, EPACTO is the ideal all-in-one platform for comprehensive sustainability management.
Data-based sustainability management
EPACTO: ESG software for sustainability-focused corporate strategy, based on facts and figures
How does EPACTO support sustainability management?
EPACTO (which stands for ESG Performance Accounting Tool) brings together sustainability-related data from different parts of your company – including via an interface with your ERP system or through manual uploads.
This ESG software can be precisely tailored to meet your specific requirements. EPACTO comprises four core elements called cockpits. Within each of these cockpits, you can select and deselect a number of different modules to create a customized ESG hub.
The four EPACTO cockpits at a glance
- The performance cockpit facilitates ESG performance monitoring by compiling all sustainability-related data and providing comparisons in individually configurable dashboards.
- The reporting cockpit relies on a CSRD workflow to guide you step by step through statutory requirements, consolidating existing data ready for reporting.
- The carbon cockpit gives you everything you need to calculate and analyze your carbon footprint.
- The supply chain cockpit provides valuable insights into your supply chain and highlights supply chain risks – a key requirement set out in the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
The performance cockpit visualizes your ESG performance to help you identify trends and make well-founded decisions.
- You have the flexibility to assemble a relevant KPI set for your monitoring, drawing from an extensive pool of ESG KPIs encompassing all data points in the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
- Based on a sensitivity analysis, EPACTO helps you weigh up options and make decisions based on a holistic view of sustainability aspects.
- In addition, the cockpit allows you to compare the ESG performance of different sites and business units.
- User-defined reports and dashboards provide a clear depiction of ESG performance.
The reporting cockpit offers an intuitive workflow to help you meet the reporting requirements set out in the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). EPACTO guides you through the reporting process, step by step.
- Integrated function to transfer the results of your double materiality analysis
- Complete coverage of quantitative and qualitative data points in the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)
- A collaborative reporting approach, featuring task management, for targeted integration of specialist departments to process tasks together.
- Progress reports and filter functionalities simplify administration by making it possible to hide optional or completed reporting points.
- Notifications ensure that all current regulatory requirements are taken into account.
- Defined approval processes: our user authority management system ensures that all inputs are approved by authorized users.
You can use the carbon cockpit to measure and reduce your carbon footprint, adjusting the scope from your entire company to a specific product.
- Identify suitable KPIs
- Define priorities for CO2-reduction measures
- Meet statutory requirements: determine material aspects and get ready for reporting
A sustainable supply chain requires comprehensive transparency regarding ESG criteria. EPACTO makes your data applicable and automates processes.
- Responsible procurement, including resource planning optimization
- Supply chain risk analyses
- Process automation (AI-enabled resource planning)
- Compliance with regulatory requirements, including the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG), the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
As part of our data health check, we review the completeness and plausibility of data. EPACTO’s features also include numerous data preparation mechanisms to ensure you pass audits with flying colors – including approval workflows based on the four-eyes principle, activity protocols and uploads of supporting documents.
- Clear depiction of your sustainability performance and development
- Fulfillment of statutory reporting requirements
- Decision-making basis for prioritizing sustainability projects
- Integration of machine learning and AI facilitates processing of large data volumes
- Data security thanks to our ISO 27001-certified information security management system
ESG software for your CSRD reporting
EPACTO as the central ESG tool for meeting sustainability reporting duties
Effective from 2024, the CSRD requires companies with 500 employees or more to produce annual sustainability reports. These reports must account for the impacts of companies’ activities on human health and the environment.
The scope of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is gradually expanding. Eventually, it will apply to almost all companies that meet at least two of the following criteria:
- More than 250 employees (yearly average)
- Annual sales in excess of €40 million
- Balance sheet total in excess of €20 million
By implementing EPACTO, companies of all sizes can tackle the specific reporting challenges they face. ESG software offers a template (e.g. for CSRD reporting) for the requisite indicators along with corresponding lists.
"Much more than reporting: using ESG data for strategic sustainability management"
Read our whitepaper about the challenges of implementing the statutory reporting standards that will come into force in 2024.
The whitepaper also shows how you can counter these with the right digital strategy and derive additional benefit from your own sustainability data.
The KPI pool in our ESG software solution EPACTO features KPIs on the following laws and standards:
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
- European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)
- EU taxonomy
- Indicators for the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
We would be happy to add further environmental, economic or social KPIs in line with your specific needs.
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Implementing our ESG software, EPACTO, in your existing IT infrastructure
Our ESG software platform EPACTO links with your existing IT architecture and collects all sustainability-related data. The ESG tool can also adapt to individual circumstances without changes to existing data structures. As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, EPACTO always incorporates the latest technological advances and corresponds to current statutory ESG reporting requirements.
All services from a single source
Our LHIND experts will be at your side throughout the entire implementation process. Drawing on their extensive sustainability expertise, specialist IT knowledge and industry insights, they offer comprehensive support – from integration, support and training to consultancy on each individual module.
Are you interested in sustainability management with our ESG software EPACTO?
Interested in learning how EPACTO could help your company make targeted improvements in its sustainability performance? We would be happy to advise you. Fill in our contact form to request a non-binding quotation – we look forward to hearing from you.