Businesses Reach Sustainability Goals with Epicor Carbon Connect

Epicor’s carbon accounting solution, Epicor Carbon Connect has been selected by two Epicor customers, HARBEC Inc. and Elstat Group. The two organizations will be able to better track, manage and reduce their overall carbon footprint with Epicor Carbon Connect. An announcement in this regard has been made by the top global company in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organizations, Epicor Software (News - Alert) Corporation.

Various innovative “green-friendly” business initiatives are already being carried out by both the customers. The companies’ existing Epicor ERP solutions will now include Epicor Carbon Connect.

Refrigeration controllers for use in display cases and vending machine is commercialized by the Elstat Group. An energy savings of up to 60 percent is delivered by the intelligent learning system used in its devices.

In a release, William Holden, environmental innovator at Elstat, said, “Our business is sustainability focused. For us, it’s key to our continued success to implement an internal infrastructure that will support our core objectives in the long term.”

A manual carbon tracking system in Excel was previously used by Elstat. The system was inadequate in terms of efficiency and timeliness. According to Holden, one of main benefits in selecting Epicor Carbon Connect was the ability to integrate carbon accounting into the existing ERP system.

Sustainability efforts are being carried out by HARBEC Inc. for the past few decades. HARBEC is a contract injection molder and precision manufacturer. Carbon output at HARBEC was being tracked through manual systems of measurement and data collection. In order to reach their goal of being carbon neutral by 2013, the company decided that it was necessary to have a more accurate and credible solution. Epicor’s next-generation ERP system was already being used by HARBEC. The company could therefore produce the required results with Epicor Carbon Connect.

Bob Bechtold, president and founder of HARBEC, said, “Ultimately we needed a monthly report of how we’re doing in terms of sustainability metrics. Those metrics are as serious to us as other common business metrics like financial reporting.”