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Carbmee x Jaggaer: Empowering smarter procurement and sustainability

Insights into the strategic between carbmee and Jaggaer: An interview with carbmee co-founder Christian Heinrich.

This article was originally featured in The Procurement Ledger, February 2025.

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Balancing cost efficiency with ESG commitments

Why is the partnership between JAGGAER and Carbmee so crucial in today’s supply chain landscape, and how does it empower organisations to tackle both procurement challenges and sustainability goals effectively?

The JAGGAER and Carbmee partnership is crucial because it integrates sustainability directly into procurement workflows, addressing the growing need for companies to balance cost efficiency with ESG commitments. Many organizations struggle with Scope 3 emissions visibility, making carbon reduction complex and fragmented. This partnership embeds carbon footprint tracking, risk assessment, and reduction planning into procurement, ensuring sustainability isn’t an afterthought but a core decision-making factor.

By leveraging Carbmee’s EIS™ platform within JAGGAER’s RFQ module, companies can measure product and supplier emissions, set reduction targets, and align sourcing with net-zero strategies. This enables procurement teams to go beyond compliance and proactively mitigate supply chain emissions while maintaining efficiency.

This partnership empowers organizations to turn procurement into a sustainability driver, helping them meet regulatory demands, optimize supplier selection, and gain a competitive edge in an increasingly ESG-driven market.

From compliance reporting to data-driven carbon reduction strategies

How will the collaboration between JAGGAER and Carbmee help both companies scale their impact, drive innovation, and improve outcomes for customers, especially in terms of integrating sustainability into procurement processes?

This collaboration enhances JAGGAER’s Autonomous Commerce platform by integrating Carbmee’s automated carbon tracking and ESG reporting, making sustainability an essential part of procurement. It allows both companies to scale their impact by embedding real-time emissions insights into sourcing decisions, giving customers the ability to assess Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions automatically.

For customers, this means moving from basic compliance reporting to data-driven carbon reduction strategies. By replacing manual assessments with automated supplier emissions tracking, risk scoring, and reduction planning, procurement teams can make smarter, sustainability-aligned decisions without added complexity.

Additionally, the partnership enables organizations to shift from price-based comparisons to Total Value of Ownership (TVO) analysis, ensuring every sourcing decision aligns with financial, environmental, and strategic business goals. This drives innovation in sustainable procurement, helping companies optimize supplier selection while accelerating their path to net zero.

Linking supplier emissions data and product carbon footprints to assess environmental impact at every stage of sourcing

The integration of ASO is a key aspect of this partnership. What makes this integration particularly unique, and how will it deliver significant value to JAGGAER’s customers in terms of calculating Risk Scores?

The Autonomous Sourcing Optimization (ASO) integration with Carbmee’s EIS™ platform is unique because it brings real-time carbon impact visibility into procurement decisions. Unlike traditional systems that prioritize cost and quality, this integration enables automated sustainability risk assessment alongside financial and operational factors.

JAGGAER customers can now link supplier emissions data and product carbon footprints to assess environmental impact at every stage of sourcing. This allows procurement teams to identify high-risk suppliers, predict sustainability risks, and align sourcing with corporate ESG goals.

Additionally, contract management is streamlined, ensuring pre-defined sustainability clauses are applied automatically. Companies can now enforce carbon reduction commitments across all suppliers, reducing compliance risks.

By shifting from a cost-centric to a risk-adjusted sourcing model, JAGGAER customers can proactively mitigate supply chain disruptions, regulatory penalties, and reputational risks—all while ensuring their procurement strategy supports long-term sustainability goals.

Looking towards the future, what is your vision for the JAGGAER and Carbmee partnership, and how do you see it evolving to further support organisations in their journey toward sustainability and smarter procurement decision-making?

The vision for this partnership is to create a seamless, intelligent procurement ecosystem where cost efficiency and sustainability are fully aligned. By continuously enhancing AI-driven predictive analytics, real-time carbon tracking, and automated ESG compliance, JAGGAER and Carbmee will help organizations proactively reduce emissions before procurement decisions are made.

Future developments may include expanded Scope 3 collaboration tools, allowing businesses to work directly with suppliers to improve sustainability metrics and reduce overall carbon impact. Deeper automation will also enable real-time carbon impact forecasting, helping companies integrate net-zero strategies directly into sourcing operations.

Ultimately, this partnership will transform procurement from a cost-driven function into a strategic enabler of sustainability, ensuring companies can achieve net-zero goals, optimize supply chain resilience, and maintain competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving market.

Enabling businesses to make more informed, responsible decisions in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape

"Our partnership with carbmee represents a major step forward in helping our customers integrate ESG considerations seamlessly into their procurement strategies.

By combining Jaggaer's advanced sourcing capabilities with carbmee's deep expertise in sustainability data, we are enabling businesses to make more informed, responsible decisions in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape."
- Martin Hayles, SVP Global Alliances at Jaggaer