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Swisscom empowers teams, partners and customers to reduce emissions with Sweep

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Company
Swisscom is the largest telecommunications company in Switzerland
Size
18,000+ employees
Industry
Telecommunications
Headquarters
Ittigen, Switzerland
Website
swisscom.ch
Swisscom's office

1M

tCO2e saved annually by helping customers reduce emissions

100%

of their operations rely on renewable energy since 2010

+4,000

suppliers in their value chain

Category
Customer
Topics
CarbonSupply Chain
Published
19 February 2023

Background

Swisscom is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland and Italy. They’ve been voted the world’s most sustainable telecommunications company by the World Finance Magazine in 2020 and 2022. Their climate goals echo their leadership as they aim to decarbonize across their supply chain by 2025, andgo beyond scope 3 by helping their customers set and reach emission targets.

"Swisscom has been committed to reducing its environmental impact for decades. With our 2025 carbon neutrality target, we aim to further reduce emissions within our organization, across our value chain, and our customers too,” says Res Witschi, Delegate For Sustainable Digitalization at Swisscom.

“Swisscom has been committed to reducing its environmental impact for decades. With our 2025 climate target, we aim to further reduce emissions within our organization, across our value chain, and our customers too.”

Res Witschi

​​Delegate for Sustainable Digitalization at Swisscom

Problem

Most of Swisscom's emissions come from the components and devices they purchase from suppliers and manufacturers. Reducing their total footprint means addressing these indirect emissions – known as scope 3 emissions.

With a network of over 4,000 suppliers, this was a massive coordination task. Doing it in spreadsheets made it even harder. For one, not all of them have the same level of carbon literacy or are at the same stage of their climate journey. Not only was it hard to get data, let alone good quality and frequent data, Swisscom couldn’t monitor emissions in real-time or simulate scenarios and reduction action.

"A person with the patience of an angel would have to send hundreds of emails and organize meeting after meeting to get the relevant data, then manually enter it into Excel spreadsheets. This quickly becomes confusing, especially when you work with thousands of suppliers," says Witschi.

Res Witschi's portrait

“A person with the patience of an angel would have to send hundreds of emails and organize meeting after meeting to get the relevant data, then manually enter it into Excel spreadsheets. This quickly becomes confusing, especially when you work with thousands of suppliers.”

Res Witschi

​​Delegate for Sustainable Digitalization at Swisscom

Solution

Swisscom was looking for a tool that could streamline carbon management processes: From automating and coordinating data collection across business units, suppliers and investments, to optimizing carbon reduction and contribution efforts. Once they’ve imported existing carbon data in Sweep, they’ll be able to:

  • Integrate historical information with new data and transition seamlessly from excel sheets to carbon management software.

  • Use surveys to automate data collection across their entire organization and value chain.

  • Compare different reduction initiatives to build the most effective decarbonization strategy.

“The supreme discipline isn’t measuring emissions, but reducing them. With Sweep, we can model various reduction initiatives and decide which measures to give priority to. This means we can build a solid, evidence-based roadmap to achieving our climate targets, and fine-tune this along the way based on real-time changes in data," says Witschi.

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Key features

Survey employees

Sweep app: Employee commuting survey

In Sweep, you can assign surveys to anyone in your company. You’ll help your staff understand the world of carbon, see their impact on the planet, and empower them to reduce your emissions.

Seamless collaboration

Sweep app: Supply chain emissions

Connect and automate the exchange of emissions data within your supply chain.

Adapt to change

Sweep app: New Scenario

To keep on-track, our scenario and simulation tools let you experiment with new initiatives on the fly. And if you discover something that works, easily set it up as a new initiative.

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