What is the WAVES Project?
The WAVES project is an innovative Sustainability Management Platform that identifies the carbon footprints of shipments, products, and companies across all sectors. It makes sustainability visible to everyone by providing real data, transparent analyses, and a platform designed to manage sustainability in the B2B context – even acting as the anti-greenwashing company. WAVES offers a fully integrated, automated solution that calculates and analyzes ecological and social aspects alongside economic values. The system leverages advanced sustainability methodologies like the LCA method (Life Cycle Assessment), ESRS guidelines, the GHG Protocol, and the GLEC standard. Its design supports every industry by providing full transparency along the supply and transport chains, so decisions can be made in real-time rather than retroactively… all in an award-winning, user-centric approach.
Main Benefits of the Platform
This dynamic platform brings several key benefits that easily transform both trade, manufacturing companies, and their logistics service partners into sustainability champions. The notable advantages include:
- Fast Reporting: Real-time reports to support quick decisions
- Simple to Use: Completely automated so businesses can remain focused on their core processes
- Deep Understanding: Profound analysis based on real data for informed decision making
- Fit for Purpose: Reliable information available for all stakeholders, including clients, investors, and regulatory bodies
- Sustainable Practices: Actively working on ecological solutions that reduce carbon emissions
- Risk Mitigation: Strict compliance with current and upcoming regulations to reduce exposure and risk
Climate Change and Eco Design
By focusing on climate change mitigation, the platform effectively highlights environmental hotspots through its LCA methodology. It helps companies identify energy and material flow inefficiencies and, over time, reduce carbon emissions across every tier of their supply chain until the final disposal of each product. Additionally, the eco design feature offers guidance for selecting sustainable components, materials, and suppliers. It supports businesses in planning the concrete amount of recycled materials produced once products reach the end of their lifecycle. This focus on eco design ensures efficient resource management and bolsters a company’s commitment to a greener future… all while keeping the process simple and transparent.
Circular Economy and Data Integrity
The WAVES solution also champions the circular economy by ensuring that what can be recycled must be recycled. The platform uses data chains combined with eco design principles to offer opportunities for building a genuine circular economy. Recycling materials become the new raw materials. Not only does the platform provide robust data integration in real-time, but it also improves data integrity by ensuring that life cycle data is organized and analyzed with precision. This means companies obtain a more accurate picture of the ecological and social consequences of their operations while enhancing production process optimization.
Compliance and Reporting
Another critical aspect is ensuring that all aspects of data regarding sustainability are compliant with current regulations and standards. The system implements stringent quality checks on data flows from both internal operations and suppliers, ensuring product compliance reaches a new level of safety and trust. Real-time monitoring and automated reporting are built into the platform, capturing all existing sustainability standards. This robust functionality supports companies in verifiably reporting sustainability indicators for clients, investors, shareholders, NGOs, or other stakeholders – a key step in avoiding greenwashing.
Project Impact
- SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
- SDG 9 – Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
- SDG 13 – Climate Action
- SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
Future Perspectives
The WAVES project, now part of pacemaker.ai, is set to transform the way companies approach sustainability. Its comprehensive platform ensures that sustainability is not just a buzzword, but a concrete element integrated into everyday operations. Every industry – from manufacturing to logistics services – can now manage sustainability actively with up to 100% transparency across the entire product lifecycle. The solution is particularly relevant for companies that need to meet stakeholder requirements imposed by banks, investors, the public, or new regulations such as CSRD and EU-Taxonomy. It enables business leaders to make faster, well-informed decisions based on solid data, grasping all aspects of environmental impact, social responsibility, and economic performance… all of which make sustaining our planet seem like a collective responsibility turned into a smart business strategy.
