TCS Envirozone™
Realize sustainability goals at an accelerated pace
Industry
Consumer Packaged Goods and Distribution
Enabling Product Innovation and Omnichannel Experience in CPG
Highlights
- Businesses are prioritising sustainability as consumers become more conscious of the ethical and environmental impact of goods and services. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have brought a new dimension to companies’ disclosure and story-telling practices, making them re-think their approaches and contributions to sustainability.
- There is an emerging need for solutions, partnerships, and ideas to address some of these pressing environmental challenges that CPG businesses are facing and to achieve the imperatives related to sustainability goals in compliance with various global standards, including the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
- Our solution can meet EUDR requirements of CPG companies dealing with commodities and their sub products like timber, coffee, cocoa, while supporting sustainable sourcing practices. It enables validation of supplier and vendor certificates and licences, assesses supplier risks and helps mitigate them with insights and recommendations.
Overview
Corporations all over the world are addressing complex sustainability challenges by changing their business functions and aligning them with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the 193 UN member states in 2015.
Also, as consumers drive the sustainability movement with lifestyle and behavioural choices, companies are ensuring that their practices are eco-friendlier and promote sustainability. They are striving to make clean, green, and ethical products to meet the sustainable product labels trend. One of their major focus areas in this endeavour is the supply chain, particularly suppliers.
TCS EnvirozoneTM is an end-to-end cloud-based solution offering sustainability as a service, thus ensuring innovation meets sustainability. It provides customers with a consolidated view of sustainability metrics and delivers valuable insights through intuitive dashboards. It also helps businesses mitigate ESG (environmental, social, and governance) risks in upstream, operations, and downstream sustainability.
TCS Envirozone tracks and mitigates supplier-sourcing risks and improves procurement decisions to support a sustainable supply chain in alignment with European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requirements. Powered by sustainability data ecosystems and equipped with built-in accelerators, the digital solution enables tracking of key Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) activities. It empowers organisations to balance over 700 ESG key performance indicators (KPIs), including forest health, traceability, EUDR compliance, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certificate management and compliance, baseline water stress, greenhouse gas emissions, child labour, and human right risks. The solution drives a transformative shift in how organisations collect data to assess sustainability performance and mitigate supply chain risks.
With TCS Envirozone, businesses gain visibility and control of upstream procurement, traceability, packaging, manufacturing operations, and downstream distribution risks to build a sustainable enterprise. It addresses the various sustainability imperatives of businesses and empowers them in taking timely decisions to execute their corporate social responsibilities aimed at achieving sustainability goals.
TCS Envirozone suite of solutions provides the required technology interventions to help achieve our customers’ responsible sourcing, carbon management, decarbonisation, circular economy, sustainable finance, and audit and compliance reporting goals. The sustainability-as-a-service offering helps operationalise sustainability insights.
The TCS ESG Centre of Excellence (CoE)—comprising the TCS Envirozone platform, sustainability client services, and sustainability data analytics—partners with organisations to address their sustainability imperatives through a holistic and transformative journey.
Solution
TCS Envirozone is a suite of next-gen cloud-based solutions driven by sustainability as a service to cater to the diverse sustainability requirements of businesses across industries.
It offers the following features (see Figure 1):
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How TCS Envirozone enhances the value chain
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It tracks key SDG activities for risk and sustainability assessment through scenario analysis built on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI-ML) predictive systems. It supports sustainability compliance operations by enabling the onboarding of farmers or warehouse owners, customising input screens for pre- and post-harvest data, and enhancing data accuracy for farmhouse or warehouse coordinates through Google geo-tagging.
The solution’s inbuilt forecasting models offer a detailed view of scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions across the value chain. The robust model helps meet the greenhouse gas (GHG) protocol requirements and SBTi (science-based targets initiative) and CDP (carbon disclosure project) and audits. It also enables building a strong industry-first auditable greenhouse performance management system for tracking and managing customer’s scope 1, 2, 3 carbon emissions at corporate level. The AI-ML system helps predict year-on-year emissions against the base year and the reduction target to achieve the goal in the earmarked year.
This uniquely designed, ready-to-deploy, sustainable line-haul application can also subsequently help estimate and manage carbon risks from freight emissions due to product transport and distributions, thereby supporting carbon disclosure and efficient fleet emissions management system.
It enables organisations to create sustainable packaging solutions using the 5R sustainable packaging framework (reduce, reuse, recycle, renew and redesign). It also helps recover post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic to reduce plastic to landfills, thus achieving circular economy goals. The solution helps companies compare products and brands sold in a locality and control brand risks.
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) enables in avoiding potential risk of paying penalty, taxes, with the embedded ML-based models, which forecast the accurate fees for recyclability of plastic and other packaging materials and help in uplifting their brand image.
In industries such as consumer packaged goods and distribution, manufacturing, retail, power, and transport, that are all set to undergo heavy decarbonisation, there is high demand for technology services and solutions to meet sustainability goals. Enterprises are raising capital through green bonds and sustainability bonds to fund sustainability initiatives. Our module details carbon credits and carbon offsets, thereby monitoring and tracking carbon trading.
This functionality enables financial analysis basis forecasting model for standardization of emissions across the value chain.
The integration of cutting-edge ML algorithms, including satellite imagery and geospatial-temporal analysis, ensures adherence to compliance standards outlined by environmental governing bodies, such as the EUDR. The purpose is to combat deforestation and promote sustainable practices within supply chains. The inbuilt AI-ML accelerators enable the validation of suppliers, vendors certificates and licences (FSC, Rain Forest Alliance, Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT)) and subsequently aids in supplier risk assessment with insights and recommendations for any course correction.
Our sustainability-as-a-service offering incorporates outcome-based, managed services to operationalize sustainability insights from TCS Envirozone. The service is driven by business-aligned, always-on team of sustainability practitioners and analysts with relevant domain and industry knowledge. Leveraging our managed services for sustainability enables our customers to focus on the more strategic sustainability aspects while leaving the important day-to-day processes and activities to our team of proven experts.
Benefits
TCS Envirozone stands out as an innovative and comprehensive platform that seamlessly integrates advanced technology with practical sustainability applications.
Its patented, ML-driven capabilities—satellite imagery analysis, simulation tools, and intuitive dashboards, among others—empower enterprises to navigate complex ESG challenges while meeting global compliance standards.
By aligning with customer needs and harnessing cutting-edge technology, TCS Envirozone continues to redefine benchmarks in sustainability and corporate responsibility, firmly positioning itself as a market leader in ESG solutions.
- Enhanced traceability: Increases traceability of raw material origin, product packaging, and supplier data. Enables scenario analysis for switching suppliers, raw materials, or regions. Facilitates audit traceability on supplier data for evidence submission in supply chain sustainability reporting
- Compliance in reporting and adherence to global standards: Helps customers comply with reporting standards of ESG parameters, European Sustainability Reporting Standards, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (ESRS, CSRD), EUDR compliances along with supplier risk assessments (see Figure 2).
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How TCS Envirozone ensures compliance
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- Improves sustainability performance: Reduces time for sustainability performance disclosure by up to 90-95%—from 10 months to two weeks, and creates perception of a responsible brand
- Reduced ESG risks: Increases visibility on carbon allocation across the value chain to improve supplier sustainability and reduce ESG risks. Assesses carbon footprint of scopes 1, 2, and 3, including direct and indirect emissions, raw materials, upstream and downstream logistics and distribution, and fuel and energy. It empowers the customer in enabling auditable carbon management system.
- Reduces process time: Brings down costs by leveraging a reliable platform to cut downprocess time by 80%.
- Supports predictive systems and intuitive dashboards: Contains Inbuilt AI-ML accelerators for predictive mechanism and effective decisioning by users; interactive dashboards make deriving insights easier.
- Empowers decision makers: It enables real-time decisions and accelerate organisations’ sustainability journey across the value chain towards protecting people and planet and yielding profits
- Provides granular visibility of key sustainability metrics: Empower CSOs, CXOs, procurement heads, and BODs in taking timely decisions in executing CSR and adhering to UN’s SDGs.
The TCS advantage
TCS Envirozone has been widely recognized in the industry and by four of the leading analyst firms.
A partnership with TCS can help businesses take advantage of the following key differentiators:
- Industry-recognized solution: TCS Envirozone has won Stevie® award as part of ‘Business Technology | New Product of the year 2024’and also Stevie Awards® 2025 – International Business Awards under sustainability product of the year (Canada & USA). It has been recognized by six of the leading analyst firms. TCS Envirozone, along with our other suites of innovative sustainability solutions, is on the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, which helps businesses plan, design, and implement their ESG strategies.
- Experience in delivering sustainability engagements to global enterprises: Our global database mapping platform obtains key sustainability factors from multiple external data sources and internal activity data systems and provides sustainability performance assessment using globally accepted estimation methods based on geographic and business-specific contextual understanding.
- Innovation labs and centres of excellence: TCS’ experienced industry and domain professionals in innovation labs and TCS Sustainability CoE bring extensive expertise and a unique set of ideas and business models to accelerate customers’ sustainability journey. We help ensure environmental, climate, and social risks are addressed on time to help businesses propel forward into a low-carbon and socially inclusive world.