Corporate footprint · scope 1, 2 and 3
Your corporate footprint is mostly what you buy
For most food companies, purchased goods are over ninety percent of the inventory. CarbonCloud calculates that part product by product, and carries scope 1, 2 and the rest in the same inventory.
Three situations. One answer
Ninety-five percent, one factor
Purchased goods come out as spend times an average: most of your footprint, nothing in it you can act on.
Two tools, or one budget
The product tool and the corporate tool disagree, and you are the reconciliation.
Your suppliers reduced. Your corporate footprint did not notice
A number built on averages cannot see real supplier reductions, so you report less progress than you made.
One platform, or the layer that feeds yours
One platform, if:
Purchased goods dominate your footprint, one team carries reporting and targets, and you need the FLAG split at corporate level.
See the inventoryKeep your group system, if:
You consolidate many entities and your reductions sit mainly in scope 1 and 2. Then we are the scope 3.1 and 3.4 layer feeding that system.
Scope 3 for SBTiEverything you report, in one place. The part you can act on, in detail
| Part of the inventory | How it is entered | What comes back |
|---|---|---|
| Scope 1: fuels, refrigerants, company vehicles | Consumption per site, from the records you already keep | Per site and group, per gas |
| Scope 2: electricity, heat, steam | Consumption per site | Location-based and market-based, both reported |
| Scope 3.1 purchased goods, 3.4 transport | From the product model: every purchased item calculated, suppliers’ data as it lands | Product by product, with the Primary Data Share; FLAG and non-FLAG split |
| Other scope 3 categories | Activity or spend data, the way you report them today | Carried in the same inventory, same report |
| The whole | One inventory, one year, one base year | Annual table in reporting format; FLAG split; per category, gas, site and group; base year and target path |
Scope 3.1 and 3.4 run on the product model. Per-site scope 1 and 2 entry, the smaller categories and the combined annual report sit in the same inventory.
The corporate number is the sum of product numbers you can prove
Purchased goods are not a factor
Every purchased item is a product in the model, with its own FLAG share and its suppliers’ data. The ninety percent becomes the part you can act on.
Supplier reductions reach the corporate number
When a supplier improves, the inventory moves with it, and the Change Log records a real reduction.
One number, product and corporate
The footprint your customer sees and your 3.1 and 3.4 lines are the same calculation. Nothing to reconcile.
Switching platforms
Your number will move. We will tell you why
We import your reported years as reported, recalculate the base year on the same model, and document the difference by cause: the real world, better data, or a method update. You decide when to restate.
What we do not do
Said plainly, so the demo is the right one
We do not model the long tail in depth: commuting, travel and services are carried as you report them today. We are not a disclosure suite, and we feed a group consolidation system rather than replace it.
Standards
GHG Protocol incl. LSRS · ISO 14067 · SBTi FLAG · PACT-aligned
The arithmetic, in public
Dole Nordic reports scope 3 at 396,091 of 397,451 tonnes CO2e, about 99.7 percent, and computes categories 1 and 4 from more than 10,000 product footprint models developed with CarbonCloud.
Dole Nordic Sustainability Report 2025, pp. 20, 21 and 26.
Questions people ask
Can I keep my corporate reporting tool?
Yes. Then we are the scope 3.1 and 3.4 layer feeding it.
I have three years of history elsewhere. What happens to it?
We import your reported years as reported and recalculate the base year on the same model, with the difference documented by cause.
Do you calculate the FLAG split at corporate level?
Yes. Every purchased item carries its own FLAG share, so the corporate split is a sum, not an estimate.
We have primary data from our own farms or assessments
Enter it with its source, and every footprint shows that it is used.
How does site data get in?
Per-site scope 1 and 2 data comes in by file import or API, the same way as product data.
One team. One platform. One number you can act on
Bring your purchased-product list and last year's inventory. That is enough to see what moves, and why.