For NWS, sustainability means progress
How NWS partnered with Greenplaces to build a measurable carbon program, and turn it into a foundation for the next chapter of their business.
The starting point
NWS, a manufacturer serving enterprise customers across multiple verticals, was facing increasing pressure from buyers to demonstrate measurable progress on emissions. Their team had operational sustainability practices, energy efficiency programs, supplier relationships built on long-term partnership, but no formal GHG inventory or framework-ready reporting structure. With customer questionnaires arriving more frequently, the need to convert practice into measurable disclosure was clear.
The engagement
Greenplaces’ team began with scoping: which entities, which sites, which categories of Scope 3 mattered for NWS’s specific customer mix. The platform then handled data collection, finance systems for fuel and electricity, HRIS for travel, supplier records for purchased goods, and structured the resulting inventory to GHG Protocol.
Within months, NWS had a defensible baseline. That baseline became the foundation for responding to customer questionnaires, identifying reduction opportunities, and setting initial reduction targets. What had been a reactive cycle of “let us get back to you” became proactive engagement with customers on progress and roadmap.
The outcome
NWS now has a maintained emissions inventory that updates as the business changes, a structured response process for incoming customer questionnaires, and a clear next-phase plan for target-setting and supplier engagement.
More importantly, sustainability has shifted from a recurring fire-drill into an integrated part of how the business reports on itself. The same data foundation now feeds multiple framework responses, with minimal additional work each cycle.
Working with Greenplaces gave us something we’d been missing, a credible carbon program we can actually point customers to, with the data and structure behind it to back it up. It’s become a real part of how we tell our story.
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