December 15, 2010 - Epicor Software announced Carbon Connect, a software as a service (SaaS)-based carbon accounting solution to help organizations address sustainability and the ever increasing associated government regulations. Carbon Connect provides companies with the ability to identify, analyze, audit, track, manage, benchmark and report on their carbon emissions/environmental impact and energy consumption. Coupled with Epicor enterprise resource planning (ERP) utility invoices and production schedules drawn from current or forecasted orders, companies can use Carbon Connect to calculate expected emissions output and budget for environmental cost factors.
Carbon Connect is a fundamental part of an overall financial management and accounting system to enable companies to engage in emissions accounting for regulatory, public relations, marketing, and operational efficiency purposes. Automated Reporting Equals Measurable Cost Savings For the budding green economy to have meaningful impact and sustainable change, organizations must have a valid means of measuring its worth to justify continued investment. Carbon Connect provides automated reports that demonstrate measurable savings and provide meaningful measurement of sustainability initiatives; this validation translates to justification of further investment and expenditures.