The success story with Sonepar

Sonepar exceeds customers’ expectations with carbon footprint reporting via IMI

Sonepar is a global distributor of electrical products and solutions and operate in over 40 countries.

Freight control management system

Sonepar gives customers control over their carbon footprint.

Sonepar provides a wide range of products for electrical installations, lighting, automation, and energy management to professional users, such as electricians and industries. The company operates in over 40 countries and aims to be a leading player in sustainable and innovative solutions for the electrical industry.

In the spring of 2022, IMI launched its new module – carbon footprint reporting. This module has become popular with customers since they save time and get better precision on environmental reporting.

Sonepar has been a customer of IMI since 2016 and is one of the customers who have adopted this module.

With this solution, we can now report our climate footprint down to order level, which means that we can compile the climate footprint for our customers.

Harald Hansen

Logistics Director, Sonepar Norge AS

As a supplier, there are many demands in this area and it feels reassuring to be able to offer this to our customers. We are now working on presenting simulated emissions in advance in our online portal, so that the customer can influence their footprint when ordering.

Harald Hansen

Logistics Director, Sonepar Norge AS

GLEC Framework

The carbon footprint reporting is based on the GLEC Framework (Global Logistics Emissions Council Framework). This means that you can calculate the climate footprint on the transport link without collecting data from your transporters, even on multimodal transport. You can continuously monitor and follow trends to see if the measures have the desired effect. In this way, we have a complete picture of the period’s emission figures.

With increased focus and demands from customers and the customer’s customer, this is a module that has become very popular with our customers and we hope to be able to help more people visualize the climate footprint of shipping in the future.

Jon Arild Ludvigsen

Senior Business Relationship Manager, IMI

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