Suppliers

This section contains tools to explore the emissions information of your suppliers, or other companies in the CBAMBOO network.

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Search network

You can use this tool to request access to the emissions data of other companies on the platform, regardless of whether they currently are your suppliers or not. To search the network, simply type a company name into the search box. You can select any of the companies in the list, and this will take you to their CBAMBOO page. If the company is already on the CBAMBOO platform, it will say “ACTIVE” next to the company name. This page will show basic information about the company, while the remaining data, in particular the emissions data, is hidden. You can request access to the information by clicking on the Request access button. This will open up a sidebar where you will have to enter the contact details for someone at that company, so that we can notify them that you are requesting access to their company’s CBAMBOO page. On submit, your contact receives an email that you have requested access to their data, and, when they decide to share the data, it will become visible to you on their page.

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Adding suppliers

Another way of requesting data from your suppliers is by selecting them on a Precursor node on Carbon Flow. This will send a data request to the supplier. When they decide to share data with your company, this will automatically update your emissions calculation.

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Suppliers

The Suppliers page lists the companies which you have requested data from. There are two different status available: Linked and Managed.

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Linked companies

A company becomes ‘Linked’ when a user that manages the company that your company has requested access to has accepted to share data. Under this status, you will not be able to upload and ‘manage’ their emissions data for your own account, but rather will get automatic updates whenever they make changes to their data. The page for a Linked supplier looks very similar to that of a ‘Managed’ supplier, with the difference that the badge on the ‘type’ row says ‘Linked’, and that the buttons that are used to edit the data are not visible.

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Managed companies

When a supplier has the ‘Managed’ status, it means that you can manage their data and upload emissions data that you received from them. This might be in the case where a company decides they do not want to join the CBAMBOO platform and, instead, want to share their emissions data with you using the Excel Communications Template, or any other type of file. To be able to add these suppliers’ data in your CBAM reports, you need to upload and manage it yourself. The way to do this, is by clicking on the ‘Manage’ button for one of the Managed suppliers. This will open up their managed page.

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Creating an installation

The first step to upload data for a managed supplier is to create an installation for them. This is data that you might have received from their emissions report (it is sometimes shown on the Excel Communications Template), or maybe in invoices. The data required to do this is very simple, as you only need to provide the installation’s name and the address. To do so, click on the ‘Add’ button in the ‘Installations’ table. Upon completing the form and clicking on ‘Create’, a new row will be added to the installations box. A single installation can have one or more emissions reports. Each emission report covers a certain period of time, which will normally be a calendar year.

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Creating an emissions report

Create a new emissions report by clicking on the ‘Add’ button next to the ‘Reports’ header next to the relevant installation. This is again a very simple form where the reporting period must be entered. This reporting period refers to the period of time over which the installation monitored its emissions. It will usually be a calendar year. In this box, simply enter the date range that is covered. This information will have to be provided by the supplier for which you are creating this emissions report. Finally, click on ‘Create’. This creates a new row in the Reports table indicating the date range that is covered by this emissions report.

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Creating an emissions report version

Each emission report might have more than one version. This is to be able to track multiple iterations of the same file, in the situation where a supplier might update their Excel sheet. To create a new version, click on the ‘Edit’ button next to date range of the relevant report. If this is the first version, then the list of versions will be empty. To add a new version, open the dropdown to add a new version by clicking on it. This shows the steps that need to be completed to upload and process the emission data that you have received from your supplier. As a first step, select the file that you received from your supplier in the file upload box and click on ‘Next’. The platform will attempt to automatically extract the data. Reviewing the data In this case, there were two goods in the provided Excel file. We can see that one of them seems to be compliant and contains all the required information, as highlighted by the green dot on the product’s box. However, the second item is missing at least one data point. Click on the item to open the detail and find out what is missing. In this example, the data for ‘Production Route’ is missing from the Excel sheet, as highlighted by the red surrounding box. The user can then manually type in the correct route assuming that it has been provided by the supplier through a different method. Once the data is complete, click on ‘Confirm good’, which will close the detail and, if all the data is complete, then the status circles will both go green. Confirming the data When the data for the items is complete, click on ‘Submit. This will create a new version of the emissions report, which will be added to the table on the sidebar. It will also add the data to the ‘Emissions Data’ table. By default, it shows the specific embedded emission values and the commodity code, but you can hover over the ‘information’ icon to see the additional detail.

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Additional information on missing data

If your supplier has not provided the required emissions data for your report, you can document the steps you have taken to get the precursor data to share with your customers. In the “Additional Information” field, click on “Add” to include justifications for the missing emissions data. You do this in the Comment box. Additionally, you can upload supporting documents showing your efforts to obtain this information, such as email threads or responses from the supplier. Click on “Save” to see an overview of the Additional information you have provided for this supplier. This documentation will demonstrate the steps taken to secure the necessary precursor data from suppliers and/or producers.