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Enabling Scope 3 Ambition Through Automated Supplier Data
Quarterly supplier emissions data, verified and ready for audit.
Global reach
EssilorLuxottica is a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of advanced vision care products, eyewear and medtech solutions.
Diverse suppliers
Initial focus on ~1,000 key suppliers based on emissions criterion.
Multiple teams
Up to 10 cross-functional users (Procurement, Corporate Sustainability, Responsible Sourcing).
EssilorLuxottica
manages Scope 3 emissions with DitchCarbon.
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The context
Automating Scope 3 Supplier Emissions Data Collection
As the Company advanced its Scope 3 decarbonization roadmap, it needed to harmonize primary emissions data collection and scale it across key Tier 1 suppliers.
DitchCarbon delivered automated supplier emissions intelligence, with verifiable evidence attached to each data point, creating a single, reliable source of supplier-specific information for Procurement and Sustainability teams.
This enables efficient, quarterly supplier emissions data retrieval and supports the Company’s commitment to transparent and credible decarbonization.
The challenge
Streamlining Supplier Emissions Data
Fragmented vendor portfolio and worldwide presence made it hard to collect accurate suppliers’ emissions data to be reflected in the Group carbon footprint assessment and its decarbonization roadmap.
Julia Beier, Global Head of Responsible Sourcing at EssilorLuxottica
“It significantly eased the team work on the continuous engagement of our suppliers, moving the effort on the suppliers’ emissions data analysis and value chain decarbonization.”
The solution
What DitchCarbon delivered
- Automated supplier intelligence: Aggregated public disclosure results and easily accessible sources; Detailed research for each supplier; Attached source documents for auditability.
- Univocal source of reliable information: Consolidated, insightful supplier profiles; Clear provenance on every reported datapoint; Traceability of reported information.
- Security & Access: EU hosting and role-based access for a focused user group.
- Support for Procurement & Sustainability teams: Scalability; No additional surveys required; Optional DUNS matching; Ability to join with internal spend information via SAP Ariba, when desired.
- Frequency of updates: Quarterly refreshes (with underlying datasets updating continuously).
The timeline
From Onboarding to Full Coverage
Transmuted bullet points into narrative proseWithin the first week, approximately 1,000 key suppliers were loaded following an accurate mapping exercise. By the end of the first month, a broader list of around 5,000 suppliers had been processed, with dashboards and exports live and a refresh cadence confirmed. Quarterly updates have since been established as an ongoing rhythm, with supplier evidence and coverage continuing to improve over time.
Effort down, scale up
Top Tier 1 suppliers’ engagement on the Company’s decarbonization roadmap with audit-ready evidence.
Faster external monitoring
Thanks to centralized dataset monitoring of publicly available information from suppliers directly impacting the Company’s Scope 3 emissions.
Action over admin
Identification of engagement areas tailored to key suppliers for the Company’s Scope 3 emissions.
Months of manual aggregation eliminated and emissions forecasting live in 6 months.
