Buying sustainability software the second time? Demand more.
10 demands to put to every vendor on your shortlist.
The answers that should make the cut — including from us.
One page, written to be forwarded.
You bought the promise once. First-generation sustainability platforms won on broad ESG rhetoric — and manufacturers found out what that promise was worth the first time an auditor asked where a number came from. A generic checklist got filled. The data didn't hold up.
Coming back to market isn't starting over. It's buying with better questions. This checklist gives you the ten demands that separate a vertical answer from a generic one — the criteria that make a second purchase defensible to the CFO who remembers the first.
The bar behind every demand comes from real numbers: manufacturers migrate to a new platform with history intact in as little as three weeks, audit prep drops by 88 percent when data holds up to scrutiny, and a vendor's retention in your industry is the truest signal it has. The checklist tells you what to ask; the answers tell you who to trust.
What's inside
Ten demands, one page, including:
Show me my industry in your customer base.
Show me how my historical data survives the migration.
Show me my auditor working in your platform.
Plus seven more, each with the answer to hold every vendor to — including us.
Written by the team behind Tracera, the sustainability data platform built for manufacturers alongside auditors from PwC, KPMG and Grant Thornton.
