Carbon Insights provides baseline carbon intelligence across suppliers and items in TraceGains. It uses existing Supplier Management data to generate standardized carbon assessments that help organizations understand upstream environmental impact.
It does not require additional supplier outreach or new data collection. Instead, it builds on the supplier and item information you already maintain in TraceGains and returns carbon values as attributes throughout the platform.
What Carbon Insights Provides
Carbon Insights delivers two primary types of insights:
- Item‑level carbon footprints
Per‑unit carbon values generated for supplied items using standardized modeling. - Supplier‑level carbon indicators
Signals that reflect supplier carbon maturity and sustainability engagement.
These insights are designed to support comparison, analysis, and reporting—not to replace detailed lifecycle studies.
How Carbon Assessments Are Generated
Carbon Insights uses existing TraceGains data and sends it to specialized carbon‑modeling partners. Those partners apply consistent methodologies and return the results to TraceGains as structured attributes.
At a high level, this includes:
- Supplier information (such as name and location)
- Item information (such as category, composition, and country of origin)
- Standardized modeling to ensure comparable results across suppliers and items
Where You’ll See Carbon Insights Data
Carbon Insights results appear throughout TraceGains, including:
- Supplier and item records
- User‑defined dashboards
- Marketplace search and discovery
- Export and API outputs used for external analysis and reporting
Learn More
This article provides a high‑level overview of Carbon Insights.
For a deeper explanation of how assessments are created and how to apply carbon data in your workflows, access the Introduction to Carbon Insights micro‑course in the TraceGains Academy.
Now that you have a high‑level understanding of Carbon Insights, the next article shows how to access carbon data in TraceGains and how it can be used across the platform.