What Is Footprint Target?
Successful companies today know that sustainable development isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a real asset. Footprint Target is the first SaaS solution designed to evaluate all your environmental impacts in one place. It goes beyond simple monitoring and actually helps businesses move into action. By combining company data with external environmental inputs, including satellite data, this global software solution offers a comprehensive environmental decision support system. It’s all about understanding your carbon and biodiversity footprints where they matter most, and then taking smart, economically viable steps forward.
Main Benefits of Footprint Target
Footprint Target brings a lot to the table, making it easier for companies to tackle environmental challenges head-on. Here’s a quick snapshot of what it offers:
- Risk Management: Maps supply and production areas using spatial data to identify risks like water scarcity that could disrupt operations.
- Competitiveness: Prioritizes actions where risks are highest, optimizing costs with an ecosystemic approach.
- Communication: Helps create clear action plans and highlights environmental commitments to employees, clients, and in non-financial reports.
- Regulatory Compliance: Provides quantified metrics and objective data to meet requirements like environmental labeling, anti-deforestation laws, and CSRD.
How Footprint Target Works
The process is straightforward but powerful. First, it measures your company’s environmental impact by blending your internal data with external sources, including satellite imagery, through scientific algorithms. Next, it helps you act by offering tailored solutions and letting you build an operational environmental action plan. Finally, it supports you in progressing by tracking your goals, communicating results, and adjusting strategies as new opportunities pop up. It’s a full cycle—from insight to impact.
Comprehensive Life Cycle Analysis
Footprint Target doesn’t just look at one piece of the puzzle. It analyzes your products and your company across the entire value chain—from sourcing raw materials all the way to the end-of-life of your products. This holistic approach ensures that no environmental impact goes unnoticed, giving businesses a 360° view of their footprint. It’s about making smarter decisions at every stage.
Intelligent and Real-Time Comparative Sorting
One of the coolest features? The software’s ability to quickly identify which products need improvement and which environmental impact categories are the biggest culprits. This real-time sorting lets companies prioritize actions based on sales volumes and impact severity. Plus, with the integrated live simulator, businesses can even improve product designs before production starts—simulating choices like raw material origins or certifications to see their environmental effects. It’s like having a crystal ball for sustainability.
Project Impact and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation – by managing water-related risks and resource scarcity.
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure – through innovative use of satellite and spatial data.
- SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production – by promoting life cycle analysis and better product design.
- SDG 13: Climate Action – by measuring and reducing carbon footprints effectively.
- SDG 15: Life on Land – by addressing biodiversity impacts and supporting anti-deforestation efforts.
Partnerships and Support
Footprint Target benefits from strong backing, including support from the European Space Agency, the French government, and CNES under the France Relance plan. This support highlights the importance of space applications in driving economic and environmental progress. Additionally, a strategic partnership with Centric Software—a Dassault Systèmes subsidiary specializing in Product Lifecycle Management—brings a powerful combo to fashion and luxury sectors. Together, they offer a solution that integrates CSR imperatives seamlessly into product management, making sustainability easier to embed in these industries.
