The benchmark enables brands and suppliers to work from a shared, objective understanding of performance. By providing a consistent and credible way to measure energy use and GHG emissions, sourcing decisions can be aligned with supplier improvement efforts.

Brands can use benchmark results to:

• Create alignment: Establish a consistent and transparent measure of performance across facilities.
• Build on existing leadership: Advance the excellent work of pioneering brands that have begun ranking their suppliers by emissions performance.
• Inform sourcing: Identify and reward higher-performing suppliers while supporting those with improvement potential.
• Provide objective facility appraisal: Evaluate both energy use and emissions per kg of production through an approach tailored to specific on-site products and processes.
• Ensure fair comparisons: Enable facility-to-facility comparisons rather than tracking a single facility’s % reductions.
• Guide manufacturers: Inform operational improvements and investment priorities.
• Prioritize interventions: Highlight low-performing facilities with significant improvement potential. Identify high-performing facilities where further gains may face diminishing returns.