Simplified Life-Cycle Management (SLCM)

Simplified life-cycle management (SLCM) of a food product means that you measure and manage a smaller yet highly relevant amount of data related to your product’s life-cycle impacts.

With a SLCM tool, you will be screening your product’s life cycle for hotspots, taking a comprehensive big-picture approach that provides a high-level understanding of where your biggest impacts are in terms of cost, carbon and nutrition.

SLCM vs. LCA?

A simplified life-cycle management tool provides companies the solution to two of the biggest barriers to LCA implementation: cost and complexity. Carbonostics is affordable, accurate and accessible for in-house use.

PAS2050 Guide promotes the use of simplified tools.

“To decide whether an emission source is likely to be material, it helps…to do a high-level footprint analysis using estimates and readily accessible data. This analysis includes the full life cycle of the product but relies on estimates and generic data to build a high-level footprint. Significant sources of emissions can later be replaced by more specific…data.”

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Accessible simplified life-cycle management

Carbonostics is the only affordable simplified life-cycle management (SLCM) tool that analyses the triple-bottom-line (cost + carbon + nutrition) impact for any food product or menu.

These results provide an immediate snapshot of hot-spots across the entire life cycle of a product, pin-pointing where substantial changes can be made to reduce carbon and costs, while improving nutritional value.

In addition, the tool allows users to create an unlimited number of comparative scenarios: adding/modifying ingredients, suppliers, storage facilities, transport, and more allowing you to experiment with different facets of your product’s life cycle and model in order to strike the best balance between cost, nutrition, and carbon impacts

Gain a competitive edge

Reaching this triple balance - (cost + carbon + nutrition) - offers a real competitive advantage in today’s economy.  The pressure and urgency to reduce production costs is a daily reality, while at the same time consumers are increasingly reactive to wasteful manufacturers.

Carbonostics is the food industry’s practical and cost-effective choice for SLCM.  It is the affordable alternative to expensive and complex full life cycle analyses (LCA).  A full LCA is not always necessary to identify hot-spots and eliminate assumptions about where the biggest negative environmental impacts are in your supply chain.

Target hot-spots, reallocate savings

Carbonostics provides the information to make comparative assessments and operational decisions so you can allocate resources where they will have the most impact.

The tool guides you through the triple-bottom-line balancing process from A-to-Z and presents results in comparative charts and graphs, including an innovative and unique (cost + carbon + nutrition) spider graph – our CCN Viewer – which graphs all 8 indices on one graph..

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Begin balancing your (cost + carbon + nutrition) impact today!

Making assumptions about carbon emissions in your supply chain?

Feeling the pressure to reduce environmental impacts, but not sure where yours are?

Carbonostics eliminates assumptions and pin-points hot spots.

Take yoghurt, for example: reacting to consumer and retailer pressures, companies could spend years examining the cup - trying to reinvent plastic to make it less polluting and more eco-friendly. And while this is a laudable effort, a quick Carbonostics analysis would show that dairy accounts for over four times the carbon impact compared to the plastic packaging for this yoghurt. Most climate change experts support such measurements and agree with the results showing dairy as one of the highest impact industries in the food chain.

Surprised?

Don’t waste your precious resources on assumptions derived from public or media pressure. Understand your impacts before making allocation decisions.

Let Carbonostics guide your decision-making process.