Microsoft Sustainability Manager – Quick Start by Reply
The Microsoft Sustainability Manager is an innovative tool designed to help businesses effectively track, report, and reduce their environmental impact. It is fully integrated in the Microsoft platform and gains insights from environmental data, enhancing data collection processes, accurately calculating emissions, and optimizing sustainability reporting.
Why should you use Microsoft Sustainability Manager ?
The Microsoft Sustainability Manager is an innovative tool designed to help businesses effectively track, report, and reduce their environmental impact. It is fully integrated in the Microsoft platform and gains insights from environmental data, enhancing data collection processes, accurately calculating emissions, and optimizing sustainability reporting.
By leveraging Microsoft Sustainability Manager, organizations can more efficiently achieve their sustainability goals and minimize their environmental footprint.
Microsoft Sustainability Manager – process and data flow
The process uses an easy four-step process for managing sustainability data:
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Master data: Establish unit groups, conversions, and report settings. It involves types of instruments, vehicles, fuels, or industrial processes, and also defines organizational and facility information, along with libraries of emission factors.
2
Record: Capture activity data reflecting operational boundaries organized into Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions categories. Emissions are then calculated using this activity data combined with relevant emission factors.
3
Report: Utilize analytics to interpret the data, and generate reports on emissions and sustainability metrics.
4
Reduce: Implement scorecards to track progress and identify opportunities for reducing emissions and improving sustainability performance.
Quick Start – project approach
1. Envisioning
- Showcase the Microsoft Sustainability Manager with an online demo session
- Highlight possibilities and integration scenarios in existing data points i.e. fleet data or energy data
- Providing process documentation and access data to playground environment for further self testing
- Providing details about licensing
- Go – NoGo decision by client
2. Plan
- Plan the implementation project
- Gather overview about organization, sites and assets
- Gather overview about available data sources
- Create project plan and effort estimation
- Decide about responsibilities for work packages
- Plan training and Go-Live
- Gather information about users and decisions groups
- Plan trainings and necessary training material
- Check Timeline for Go-Live
3. Execute and Use
- Execute necessary infrastructure actions (users, privileges)
- Setup stages for test and production
- Configure the Microsoft Sustainability Manager and add customer Master Data
- Configure connectors for action and emission data
- Configure Emission data calculation
- Setup reports and Score Card
- Execute Training
- Go-Live and Use
Support Levels and Concepts
- 1st level support is provided by the customer organization.
- Reply is happy to work in 2nd level support in your support solution (ticket system) to avoid a system break.
- On request, Reply provides 3rd level support experts for the entire Microsoft technology stack (Microsoft M365, Business Applications incl. Power Platform and Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure). This allows you to benefit from a cross-discipline experienced team that can solve almost any issue directly.
- Reply’s 3rd level support can fall back on Microsoft if necessary. Particularly noteworthy are, on the one hand, personal relationships and our Microsoft Premier Support contract (value > €250k), through which we can handle an unlimited number of tickets for you with the highest priority.
- Reply supports customers from the mid-market and enterprise segment.
