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The AllocNow Product Sustainability Platform (PSP) is an enterprise SaaS solution that automates lifecycle assessments (LCAs) and product carbon footprint (PCF) calculations for the chemical, pharmaceutical, and process industries. It integrates with ERP and operational data systems, applies deterministic, standards-compliant calculation logic, and delivers product-level sustainability metrics at portfolio scale, across all products, all plants, for every team that needs them. 

Yes. AllocNow actively supports its customers through the third-party  audit process required for TfS PCF certification, providing consulting, documentation, and technical evidence to facilitate a smooth certification outcome. Several AllocNow customers have already achieved TfS PCF certification, including Covestro, Merck, and Wacker Chemie. AllocNow's provider team has extensive experience working alongside third-party certifiers, making the path to certified product carbon footprints as efficient as possible for customers. 

AllocNow calculates environmental impacts at material-production plant granularity. For every material ID produced at every production plant within the defined scope globally, the platform generates a unique environmental impact value. This means a product manufactured at multiple sites receives a distinct LCA/PCF for each location, accurately reflecting site-specific differences in energy mix, process efficiency, and raw material sourcing. 

Yes. AllocNow's LCA/PCF calculations are grounded entirely in actual operational consumption data, not theoretical or planned values. Three core data dimensions are captured: (a) procurement of raw materials, reflecting the real quantities and emission factors of purchased inputs; (b) production of materials, based on actual energy, utility, and process emission data at each facility; and (c) intercompany transports of materials, accounting for the real logistics movements between company sites. This primary-data-first approach ensures that AllocNow LCA/PCF results are accurate, credible, and defensible under third-party audit. 

Yes. AllocNow calculates product carbon footprints both including and excluding biogenic carbon uptakes and removals, reported separately. This distinction is important for companies working with bio-based raw materials or products, where biogenic carbon flows can materially affect the environmental profile. Separate reporting aligns with the requirements of standards such as ISO 14067, the GHG Protocol, and the TfS PCF Guideline. 

AllocNow enables the systematic and scalable allocation of energy and utility consumption, starting from the site or plant level down to the individual process and product level. This ensures that each product's environmental impact accurately reflects its proportional share of energy inputs such as steam, electricity, and cooling, based on actual consumption data rather than estimates or averages. The platform's energy model is configurable to each customer's specific site data structures and reporting systems. 

Yes. AllocNow is fully capable of handling multi-output processes, which are common in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing where a single production step yields multiple co-products or by-products. Environmental impacts are allocated across outputs in line with PAS 2090 and TfS allocation rules, ensuring methodological compliance and consistency. The platform applies these rules automatically across all relevant production steps, eliminating the need for manual allocation modeling. 

AllocNow builds a Production Network Model from actual ERP material flow data, mirroring global operations gate-to-gate. An Emissions Model then applies real energy consumption, direct air emissions, and waste treatment data to each production step. One transparent rule set is applied consistently across every product and intermediate, eliminating discretionary modeling choices and producing fully traceable, audit-ready results without manual effort. This is what AllocNow calls true automation. 

No. AllocNow is built on the principle of true automation: the platform constructs and calculates the lifecycle assessment model automatically from existing operational data, without requiring any manual LCA modeling. One rule set is applied consistently across all products and intermediates, ensuring methodological consistency at scale. This eliminates the need for LCA experts to configure individual product models and dramatically reduces the time and effort required to maintain up-to-date results.

AllocNow works with as-is data directly from source systems, with no preprocessing required on the customer side. The platform's customizable data pipeline ingests raw data exports from ERP and operational systems and handles all required transformations internally. Unlike other LCA solutions that demand manual data preparation, template-based entry, or significant IT and data engineering effort, AllocNow manages the entire data processing end-to-end. 

No. AllocNow does not rely on Bills of Materials for its calculations. Instead, the platform uses actual operational data, specifically the real material movements and transaction records from the ERP system, to model the production network. Actual data is more accurate and more consistent than BOM-based approaches because it reflects what was truly produced and consumed at each facility, rather than theoretical or planned values. This primary-data-first approach is a key reason why AllocNow's LCA/PCF results are highly credible and defensible under audit.

Yes. AllocNow provides complete end-to-end visibility on material flows, from raw materials entering the company through all intermediate production steps to finished products. By modeling the full production network from ERP transaction data, the platform makes step-wise BOM explosion on intermediates obsolete. Every upstream and downstream material relationship is automatically captured and traversed during calculation, ensuring that the full contribution of each input is reflected in the final product footprint without manual tracing. 

AllocNow centralizes supplier-specific Scope 3 emission factors and uses an AI-assisted matching algorithm to identify the most accurate factors from trusted databases such as ecoinvent and Carbon Minds. In several customer implementations, this has achieved up to 90% coverage of purchased quantities with suitable emission factors, significantly improving accuracy and reducing manual lookup effort. Supplier primary data, once provided, is fully traceable and integrated directly into the LCA/PCF calculation. 

Yes. AllocNow provides dedicated support for Scope 3.1, which covers emissions from purchased goods and services and is typically the most material and challenging Scope 3 category for chemical and process industry companies. A key feature is the AllocNow Scope 3 Matching App, which matches free-text chemical descriptions to standardized emission database entries in Carbon Minds and ecoinvent for Scope 3 environmental assessments. It supports both single chemical matching with ranked results and batch processing via Excel upload, making it practical to achieve high emission factor coverage across complex raw material portfolios at scale.

Yes. AllocNow integrates with multiple leading secondary emission factor databases to ensure the highest possible coverage and accuracy. Supported databases include ecoinvent, the most widely used LCA background database globally, and Carbon Minds, a specialized database for the chemical industry. AllocNow holds reselling agreements with both providers, giving customers licensed access to high-quality secondary data directly within the platform to fill gaps where primary data is unavailable. 

Yes. AllocNow includes a Contribution Analyzer that enables in-depth analysis of the main drivers behind a product's environmental footprint. Users can drill down into contributions from raw materials, individual production processes, and intercompany transportation to identify the highest-impact levers for reduction. Results can be broken down by emission source, supply chain stage, and supplier, giving procurement, sustainability, and R&D teams the specific insights they need to prioritize action. 

Yes. AllocNow includes an interactive Value Chain Visualization that maps sustainability impacts across the full production network, including purchases, production processes, intermediates, and intercompany transfers. This visual representation makes it easy to understand the structure of complex multi-stage chemical and pharmaceutical value chains at a glance, identify where in the value chain the most significant environmental impacts occur, and communicate product-level sustainability data to non-specialist stakeholders. 

Yes. The AllocNow platform is designed so that sustainability data is accessible and interpretable across the entire organization, not just for LCA experts. Results are presented through user-friendly dashboards and reports that highlight key insights for each target group, from procurement teams focused on raw material contributors to sales teams needing summary footprint figures for customer requests. The platform's interface requires minimal training for non-specialist users, supporting broad cross-functional adoption. 

Yes. AllocNow supports the aggregation of product environmental footprints across both organizational hierarchies, such as regional and global rollups, and product hierarchies, such as product families and business units. This enables sustainability managers and executives to view portfolio-level sustainability performance in addition to individual product results, supporting strategic reporting, target setting, and regulatory disclosure at any level of granularity required. 

Yes. AllocNow includes a built-in results management workflow that supports the structured validation and approval of calculated PCF and LCA results. The workflow integrates role-based access control, allowing organizations to assign review and approval responsibilities to designated users while keeping calculation inputs and final results appropriately controlled. Automated deviation checks flag changes between calculation periods, and approval thresholds can be configured to focus manual review effort where it is most needed. 

Yes. AllocNow automatically generates standardized, communicable PDF reports for all approved PCF and LCA results. Reports are configurable to company-specific requirements, including legal disclaimers, company logo, methodological assumptions, and data quality information. Standardized reports are available for all approved results and can be shared with customers, auditors, and regulators as part of sustainability reporting and certification processes. 

Yes. AllocNow allows customers to configure different roles and profiles, enabling organizations to assign responsibilities and access rights based on function and team. The platform is built to serve multiple target groups simultaneously, including sustainability managers, procurement teams, R&D, marketing and sales, finance, and product management, each with access to the data and features relevant to their role. Role-based access control is fully integrated into the results management and validation workflow, ensuring appropriate separation of responsibilities. 

No, and this is a deliberate design choice. AllocNow's core calculation engine uses deterministic, rule-based algorithms to ensure full traceability, auditability, and compliance with ISO 14044/67 and the TfS PCF Guideline. Customer data is never processed through AI or LLM systems within the core engine. AI-assisted functionality is strictly limited to Scope 3 emission factor matching, implemented in a controlled, secure way that does not involve customer production data in any AI model training.

The platform includes built-in analytics for data validation and explainability across every production step. Data Quality Ratings (DQR) are calculated automatically for all results in line with TfS definitions. Every data point is traceable from source through to the emission factor applied and the calculation methodology used, meeting the requirements of external verifiers and regulators. AllocNow operates under ISO 27001 certification, and the platform's security architecture is deployed in a managed VPC on AWS with strict tenant isolation. 

Yes. AllocNow supports Single Sign-On via customer Identity Providers (IdP), compatible with industry-standard protocols including OIDC and SAML. This enables employees to authenticate using their existing corporate credentials through providers such as Microsoft Entra and Okta, meeting the highest enterprise security standards. SSO integration ensures seamless, secure access for all users while eliminating the need to manage separate platform credentials. 

The Scenario Tool allows users to run what-if analyses to assess the sustainability impact of potential changes before implementation. Users can model changes to raw material emission factors, energy sources, supplier substitutions, or process configurations and immediately see the resulting effect on product carbon footprints. Multiple scenarios can be created, compared side-by-side, saved, and shared across teams, supporting collaborative, data-driven decisions about reduction levers and capital investments. 

AllocNow deploys senior experts with hands-on experience in automating LCAs from ERP systems, managing the entire implementation end-to-end. The SaaS delivery model minimizes IT effort on the customer side, as no additional data transformation or preprocessing is required from customer IT teams. This approach saves customers the equivalent of at least 2 to 3 FTEs in IT and data engineering over the project. AllocNow has a 100% project success rate across all completed implementations.