Islet devel­oped an emis­sion app for Trans­meri Group to advance their sus­tain­abil­i­ty efforts

As part of the long last­ing coop­er­a­tion between Islet and Trans­meri Group, Islets Data & Ana­lyt­ics team devel­oped a solu­tion for cal­cu­lat­ing and report­ing car­bon emis­sions. The new appli­ca­tion com­bines the view­points of respon­si­bil­i­ty and data-dri­ven deci­sion mak­ing and thus sup­ports Trans­meris sus­tain­abil­i­ty efforts. To both com­pa­nies involved, data-dri­ven deci­sion mak­ing and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment are impor­tant and shared val­ues and themes that shine through and guide in their actions and com­pa­ny cul­ture every day. 

Trans­meri Group, found­ed in 1928, is a Finnish fam­i­ly com­pa­ny that spe­cial­izes in man­u­fac­tur­ing, import­ing and whole­sal­ing con­sumer goods and cos­met­ic prod­ucts in Fin­land and in the Baltics. Respon­si­bil­i­ty has been one of the com­pa­nys val­ues since the very begin­ning, but in recent years it has been lift­ed as one of the main focus points from the cor­po­rate gov­er­nance to the dai­ly busi­ness operations.

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty has always been one of the cor­ner­stones of Islets iden­ti­ty. Since the gen­er­a­tional change in the fam­i­ly busi­ness in 2015, the role of sus­tain­abil­i­ty has only grown big­ger with the invest­ments and efforst includ­ing the annu­al #Islet­goe­sItämeri-cam­paign, coop­er­a­tion with the Women code ‑move­ment and many oth­ers. Still, to help its cus­tomers to advance their sus­tain­abil­i­ty efforts and reach their sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals by offer­ing com­pe­tence and new tech­nolo­gies has a spe­cial impor­tance to Islet.

The Unit­ed Nations’ Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals pro­vides the frame­work to both Islet Groups and Trans­meri Groups sus­tain­abil­i­ty work. In Trans­meri Groups sus­tain­abil­i­ty pro­gram, there are three focus areas and goals for the com­ing years: 8 – Decent Work and Eco­nom­ic growth, 13 – Cli­mate action and 17 – Part­ner­ships.

Car­bon neu­tral­i­ty is the most impor­tant one of Trans­meri Groups strate­gic sus­tain­abil­i­ty themes. Accord­ing to their goal, Trans­meri aims to be car­bon neu­tral on their build­ings, mobil­i­ty and trans­porta­tion by 2030. To speed up the process of reach­ing this goal, Trans­meri and Islet com­bined their forces and devel­oped an emis­sion cal­cu­la­tion and report­ing app. With the app, Trans­meri is able to col­lect, mea­sure, ana­lyze and report data relat­ed to their emis­sions in a faster and eas­i­er way. Based on the visu­al­ized data, they can make informed deci­sions if need­ed and actions to fur­ther their sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals.

The solu­tion is based on the com­mon­ly used Green­house Gas aka the GHG-Pro­to­col devel­oped to mea­sure the envi­ron­men­tal impact of dif­fer­ent sub­jects. The app is pow­ered by Microsoft Pow­er Plat­form tech­nolo­gies. It con­verts the giv­en data from dif­fer­ent emis­sion sources to one, uni­form unit. By doing so, it makes it pos­si­ble to count the emis­sions from for exam­ple vehi­cles and build­ings, or any oth­er direct or indi­rect emis­sion sources (Scope 1, 2 & 3) togeth­er and to report them eas­i­ly and in a com­pa­ra­ble form.

As part of the imple­men­ta­tion, the app was inte­grat­ed to Transmeri’s exist­ing data plat­forms and report­ing and visu­al­iza­tion tool Microsoft Power­BI that was also already being used at Trans­meri pri­or to the project. Thanks to the inte­gra­tions, the data man­age­ment, report­ing and ana­lyz­ing relat­ed to emis­sions is kept as easy and straight for­ward as pos­si­ble using the same tools. The solu­tion was also brand­ed accord­ing to the Trans­meri Group brand.

Islet Group has pack­aged the Microsoft qual­i­fied emis­sion app for easy imple­men­ta­tion for any orga­ni­za­tion. The app brings effi­cien­cy to col­lect­ing and report­ing the emis­sion data and allows to report and share the results dig­i­tal­ly in visu­al­ized form.

To hear more about the app, please con­tact Janne: