Carbon Accounting and ESG ERP
Measure, Manage and Reduce Your Environmental Impact
OneBusiness Carbon Accounting and ESG ERP helps organisations capture emissions data, calculate greenhouse gas emissions, monitor sustainability performance and manage evidence-based ESG reporting from one integrated platform.
The solution connects operational data from finance, procurement, inventory, production, logistics, employee travel, facilities and waste management. This reduces dependence on disconnected spreadsheets and provides a clearer, auditable view of organisational emissions.
From Operational Data to Measurable Sustainability Action
An Integrated Platform
An Integrated Platform for Carbon Accounting and ESG Management
Carbon accounting requires information from many different business functions. Electricity bills may be held by Finance, fuel records by Fleet Management, employee travel by HR, purchased-goods information by Procurement and production data by Operations.
When this information is maintained separately, sustainability reporting becomes slow, difficult to verify and vulnerable to errors.
OneBusiness creates a connected carbon-management process:
Set Organisational Boundaries
Capture Activity Data
Apply Emission Factors
Calculate Emissions
Review Data Quality
Approve Results
Analyse Performance
Publish Reports
Track Reduction Initiatives
The system creates a traceable relationship between source transactions, supporting evidence, calculation methods, emission factors and reported sustainability results.
Features
Carbon Accounting Capabilities
Set objectives, monitor performance in real time, and keep every compliance obligation under control.
Goals and Objective Settings
Define organisational sustainability objectives and translate them into measurable targets.
Capabilities include:
- Corporate carbon-reduction objectives
- Net-zero and decarbonisation targets
- Base-year configuration
- Interim and long-term targets
- Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 targets
- Business-unit and facility-level objectives
- Energy, water and waste targets
- Responsible owner assignment
- Target dates and milestones
- Actual-versus-target monitoring
- Corrective actions and progress reviews
Goals can be linked to real-time sustainability KPIs and operational performance.
Carbon Accounting Dashboard
Monitor organisational emissions and sustainability performance from a central dashboard.
The dashboard can present:
- Total greenhouse gas emissions
- Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions
- Location-based and market-based electricity emissions
- Emissions by company, facility and business unit
- Monthly and annual trends
- Emissions intensity
- Target-versus-actual performance
- Data completeness and approval status
- High-emission activities
- Carbon credits and offsets
- Reduction progress
Users can drill down from summary indicators to detailed activity data and supporting records.
Compliance Tracking
Maintain sustainability obligations, reporting requirements and compliance activities within a controlled register.
Capabilities include:
- Compliance obligation register
- Applicable regulation or framework
- Responsible business owner
- Reporting and renewal dates
- Required evidence
- Compliance status
- Review and approval workflows
- Corrective-action tracking
- Automated reminders
- Escalation of overdue items
- Complete audit history
Real-Time Sustainability KPIs
Configure and monitor the environmental, social and governance indicators relevant to your organisation.
Environmental KPIs may include:
- Total carbon emissions
- Energy consumption
- Renewable-energy percentage
- Fuel consumption
- Water usage
- Waste generated
- Waste diverted from landfill
- Recycled-material usage
- Emissions per product or revenue unit
Social and governance indicators may include:
- Workforce diversity
- Training and development
- Health and safety
- Employee turnover
- Supplier assessments
- Compliance incidents
- Policy completion
- Sustainability action closure
- Data assurance status
KPI definitions, ownership, measurement frequency, evidence and targets can be centrally managed.
Scope 3 Employee
Employee Travel, Logistics and the Wider Value Chain
Capture emissions from commuting, business travel, transportation and purchased goods and services.
Employee Commuting Records
Capture emissions associated with employee travel between home and the workplace.
The system can record:
- Transport mode
- Travel distance
- Number of commuting days
- Vehicle and fuel type
- Car-pooling information
- Public-transport usage
- Remote-working days
- Survey-based activity data
- Applicable emission factor
- Calculated emissions
Results can be analysed by office, location, department and reporting period.
Employee Business Travel Records
Manage business-travel emissions using detailed travel activity data.
Supported records can include:
- Air travel
- Rail travel
- Taxi and rideshare journeys
- Hire vehicles
- Personal vehicle use
- Hotel accommodation
- Travel class
- Origin and destination
- Distance and duration
- Number of travellers
- Expense-record references
- Supporting documents
Integration with Finance and employee-expense records can reduce duplicate data entry.
Product Transportation and Distribution
Calculate emissions associated with inbound and outbound movement of products and materials.
Capabilities include:
- Transport provider
- Origin and destination
- Transport mode
- Distance travelled
- Shipment weight and volume
- Vehicle and fuel type
- Refrigerated or controlled transport
- Inbound and outbound logistics
- Upstream and downstream distribution
- Emission-factor assignment
- Shipment-level carbon calculation
Emissions can be analysed by supplier, customer, route, carrier, product and shipment.
Raw Material Transportation
Measure the carbon impact of moving raw materials from suppliers to production or storage facilities.
The system can capture:
- Supplier and material
- Source and destination
- Shipment date
- Weight and quantity
- Distance
- Transport mode
- Vehicle type
- Fuel type
- Number of transport legs
- Freight and logistics provider
- Calculated emissions
These results can contribute to organisational inventories and product carbon footprint calculations.
Scope 1 Emissions
Direct Emissions from Owned Assets
Company Facilities
Record direct emissions generated by assets and processes controlled by the organisation.
Emission sources may include:
- Stationary fuel combustion
- Boilers, furnaces and generators
- Manufacturing equipment
- Refrigerant leakage
- Air-conditioning systems
- Fire-suppression equipment
- Process emissions
- Facility-specific fuel consumption
- Other fugitive emissions
Each record can retain source data, evidence, calculation method, emission factor and approval status.
Company Vehicles
Manage emissions generated by organisation-owned or controlled vehicles.
Capabilities include:
- Vehicle master records
- Vehicle category
- Fuel type
- Fuel purchases
- Distance travelled
- Odometer readings
- Fuel efficiency
- Electric-vehicle charging
- Refrigerant information
- Reporting period
- Emission calculation
- Supporting receipt or invoice
Fleet emissions can be analysed by vehicle, location, department and fuel type.
Heating Units
Record fuel and energy consumption from boilers, furnaces, heaters and other stationary combustion units.
The transaction can include:
- Equipment and facility
- Fuel type
- Fuel quantity
- Unit of measurement
- Operating period
- Energy content
- Applicable emission factor
- Calculated emissions
- Maintenance information
- Supporting evidence
This enables accurate cost analysis by activity, block, crop season and finished product.
Steam Consumption
Capture purchased or internally generated steam used by facilities and production processes.
Capabilities include:
- Steam supplier or generating unit
- Facility and department
- Consumption quantity
- Measurement unit
- Meter reading
- Reporting period
- Supplier-specific factor
- Calculation methodology
- Supporting invoice
- Emissions result
The Block Cost Ledger provides management with a single view of each block’s operational and financial performance.
Scope 2 Energy Emissions
Electricity, Steam and Purchased Energy
Office Electricity Consumption
Track electricity consumption and associated emissions across offices and administrative locations.
The system supports:
- Electricity supplier
- Meter and facility
- Billing period
- Opening and closing readings
- Electricity consumed
- Tariff details
- Renewable-energy information
- Supplier-specific emission factors
- Location-based calculation
- Market-based calculation
- Invoice and evidence attachment
Carbon Accounting Settings
Configure the calculation rules used across the carbon accounting environment.
Settings may include:
- Reporting period
- Organisational boundaries
- Operational or financial control
- Equity-share treatment
- Base year
- Consolidation rules
- Scope classifications
- Emission-factor sources
- Global-warming potential values
- Calculation methods
- Units and conversions
- Materiality thresholds
- Approval workflows
- Data-retention requirements
Scope 3 Value-Chain Emissions
Purchased Goods and Services
Calculate emissions associated with goods and services purchased by the organisation.
Supported approaches can include:
- Supplier-specific emissions data
- Activity-based calculation
- Quantity-based calculation
- Spend-based estimation
- Material-level emission factors
- Procurement-category factors
- Hybrid calculation methods
Integration with purchase orders, goods receipts and supplier invoices improves completeness and reduces manual processing.
Waste Generation Records
Capture waste quantities, treatment methods and associated emissions.
Capabilities include:
- Waste type and classification
- Hazardous or non-hazardous status
- Quantity and unit
- Source facility or process
- Waste contractor
- Treatment method
- Recycling and recovery
- Incineration
- Composting
- Landfill
- Transport distance
- Disposal evidence
- Calculated emissions
The system can also monitor waste-diversion and circular-economy performance.
Data Management & Assurance
Governed Data You Can Trust and Audit
Units of Measurement
Maintain standard units and conversion rules for sustainability calculations.
Supported units may include:
- Kilowatt-hours and megawatt-hours
- Litres and kilolitres
- Kilograms and tonnes
- Cubic metres
- Passenger kilometres
- Vehicle kilometres
- Tonne kilometres
- Currency units
- Product quantities
- Area and volume measures
Emission-Factor Management
Maintain a governed library of emission factors used in carbon calculations.
Each factor can include:
- Emission source
- Scope and category
- Country or region
- Fuel, material or activity type
- Factor value and unit
- Applicable greenhouse gases
- Source organisation
- Publication or dataset version
- Effective dates
- Supporting documentation
- Review and approval status
Historical factors can be retained to reproduce and audit previous calculations.
Progress Tracking
Monitor sustainability programmes and emissions-reduction initiatives.
Capabilities include:
- Initiative description
- Baseline performance
- Target reduction
- Planned and actual dates
- Responsible owner
- Budget and expenditure
- Expected carbon benefit
- Actual carbon reduction
- Milestones
- Risks and issues
- Supporting evidence
- Completion status
This connects carbon reporting with practical decarbonisation activity.
Mobile Application Authorisation
Allow authorised employees to submit sustainability activity data using mobile devices.
Mobile-enabled processes can support:
- Meter readings
- Fuel consumption
- Waste quantities
- Equipment data
- Facility observations
- Evidence photographs
- Location and timestamp capture
- Supervisor approval
- Offline field-data collection
- Role-based access
This is particularly useful for facilities, plantations, construction sites, warehouses and remote operations.
Carbon Reporting & Analysis
From Dashboards to Predictive Insight
Sustainability Report Power BI Dashboard
Present approved sustainability and ESG information through interactive management dashboards.
Dashboard capabilities may include:
- Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions
- Emissions trends
- Site and business-unit comparisons
- ESG KPI performance
- Target progress
- Energy and waste indicators
- Emissions intensity
- Data-quality status
- Reduction projects
- Management drill-downs
Sustainability Report Tableau Dashboard
Organisations using Tableau can visualise the same governed carbon and ESG datasets through configurable dashboards.
The platform can provide:
- Reporting-ready sustainability datasets
- Standardised metrics
- Filterable management views
- Facility and period comparisons
- Target progress
- Trend and variance analysis
- Role-specific dashboards
- Data-quality status
- Executive reporting
What-If Scenarios
Model the potential effect of different sustainability strategies before implementation.
Scenarios may include:
- Switching to renewable electricity
- Replacing fleet vehicles
- Improving fuel efficiency
- Reducing business travel
- Changing transport modes
- Selecting lower-carbon suppliers
- Reducing waste sent to landfill
- Increasing recycled content
- Improving equipment efficiency
- Changing production volumes
Predictive Analysis with Amazon Forecast
Use predictive analytics to anticipate future emissions and resource consumption based on historical operational data.
Potential forecasts include:
- Electricity consumption
- Fuel usage
- Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions
- Waste generation
- Business-travel emissions
- Production-related carbon emissions
- Progress against reduction targets
- Expected year-end carbon position
Forecasting helps management take corrective action before performance moves significantly away from established targets.
Carbon Credits & Offsets
Manage Credits, Offsets and Retirements
Carbon Credit and Offset Management
Record and manage carbon credits, offset purchases and retirement activities.
Capabilities include:
- Carbon-credit project details
- Project location and type
- Registry and standard
- Vintage year
- Quantity purchased
- Cost and currency
- Certificate and serial information
- Ownership and availability
- Reduction projects
- Retirement date
- Reporting-purpose allocation
- Supporting documents
- Approval and audit history
The system clearly distinguishes operational emissions reductions from offsetting activities.
ESG Management
Environmental, Social and Governance, in One System
Environmental Management
Monitor environmental performance across:
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Energy and renewable energy
- Water consumption
- Waste and recycling
- Materials and resources
- Pollution and environmental incidents
- Biodiversity indicators
- Environmental compliance
- Reduction programmes
Social Management
Manage selected workforce and social indicators, including:
- Workforce composition
- Diversity and inclusion
- Employee health and safety
- Training and development
- Labour practices
- Community programmes
- Worker welfare
- Supplier social assessments
- Social incidents and corrective actions
Governance Management
Support governance and accountability through:
- Sustainability policies
- Management responsibilities
- Compliance registers
- Risk and control management
- Approval workflows
- Audit trails
- Ethics and conduct indicators
- Supplier due diligence
- Data assurance
- Management and board reporting
Integrated Platform
Integration with OneBusiness ERP
Carbon calculations use existing business transactions instead of requiring duplicate manual entry into a separate sustainability system.
Financial Accounting
Procurement and Supplier Management
Inventory and Warehousing
Production Planning
Transportation and Distribution
Human Resources and Payroll
Employee Expenses
Plantation Management
Project Management
Asset and Fleet Management
Quality Assurance
Sales and Customer Management
Why It Matters
Business Benefits
Replace Disconnected Spreadsheets
Create a governed sustainability system with consistent calculations, responsibilities and approvals.
Understand Scope 1, 2 and 3 Emissions
Consolidate direct, energy-related and value-chain emissions within one reporting environment.
Improve Data Accuracy
Use operational transactions from ERP modules to reduce manual entry and reconciliation.
Identify Carbon Hotspots
Determine which facilities, suppliers, materials, transport routes and activities contribute most to organisational emissions.
Strengthen Auditability
Trace every calculated result back to its source record, emission factor, calculation method and evidence.
Connect Carbon and Financial Data
Analyse the financial implications of energy use, emissions, reduction initiatives and carbon credits.
Support Management Decisions
Use dashboards, forecasts and what-if analysis to prioritise practical emissions-reduction measures.
Build Credible ESG Reporting
Improve the consistency, transparency and verifiability of environmental, social and governance information.
Who It's For
Designed for Different Industries
OneBusiness Carbon Accounting and ESG ERP can be configured for:
Manufacturing
Textile and apparel
Leather production
Coffee and agricultural plantations
Construction and infrastructure
Logistics and distribution
Professional services
Retail and wholesale
Multi-company enterprise groups
Small and medium-sized businesses
Why OneBusiness
Why Choose OneBusiness Carbon Accounting and ESG ERP?
OneBusiness connects sustainability information with the operational and financial transactions that generate it. This creates more than a reporting tool—it establishes an integrated system for measuring performance, managing responsibility and supporting emissions-reduction decisions.
The platform helps organisations answer critical questions:
- What are our Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions?
- Which facilities and activities produce the most emissions?
- How complete and reliable is our sustainability data?
- Which emission factors and calculation methods were used?
- Can reported results be traced to evidence?
- Are we progressing towards our carbon-reduction targets?
- Which sustainability initiatives provide the greatest benefit?
- What would happen if we changed energy sources, transport methods or suppliers?
- How much have we reduced operational emissions?
- How many carbon credits have been purchased and retired?