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What is TÜV SÜD sustainability software evaluation?
Sustainability software refers to systems and tools that help organisations manage their sustainability data and improve environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Businesses often utilise ready-to-use software for collecting and analysing sustainability data across their value chain. Data measured include product carbon footprint and recyclability. Evaluation is a conformity assessment method specifically adapted by TÜV SÜD for sustainability software to enhance its reliability and trustworthiness. It complements product certification and claim validation/verification. The evaluation focuses on functional suitability, process implementation, and manual recalculation of sustainability aspects. To ensure the accuracy of the data generated by the software, a trusted third party such as TÜV SÜD must thoroughly evaluate its methodology and documentation. The outcome of the evaluation is a report that can be used for advertising according to the Do’s-and-Don’t’s list, which is available upon request.
Examples of environmental sustainability software we evaluate include (but are not limited to):
- Company-specific new sustainability functionality added to existing ERP software and internal databases to enable the large-scale generation of sustainability data.
- Software-supported company-specific processes built to increase efficiency in carbon footprint calculation and/or reporting.
- Stand-alone sustainability software to generate sustainability data for its users by providing methodology and automation for calculation and reporting.
- And many more.
Here is an example of where our evaluation services might fit into your sustainability data generation process.
Why TÜV SÜD sustainability software evaluation is important
Ready-to-use software for sustainability should be evaluated to ensure its functional suitability. A comprehensive evaluation helps you identify ways to improve your environmental sustainability software.
A thorough evaluation helps you demonstrate to your customers as well as internal users of your software that you have high-quality environmental sustainability software. Customers more readily trust and accept data from software tools if an independent third party has evaluated these tools. This can give you an important advantage in a competitive marketplace.
How TÜV SÜD can help you with sustainability software evaluation
TÜV SÜD’s experts offer a high level of expertise in sustainability and software solutions. We provide quality-assured and scalable procedures based on relevant standards.
We offer comprehensive evaluation of environmental sustainability software is based on:
- Functional suitability – Based on user manual and product documentation, we evaluate the software UI suitable for function.
- Process implementation – Based on process documentation, we evaluate the implemented systematic calculation approach.
- Manual re-calculation – Based on a complete sample set of input and output data, we evaluate the calculation methodology and model.
Once we assess your software, we will issue an evaluation report of conformity.
These services cover all ready-to-use software regardless of industry. They also cover a wide range of markets, which means you can use them globally.
