If your company doesn’t own the manufacturing site where your products are made, but instead outsources production to a third-party, you’ll still need to submit your product information to the M2030 platform. This article explains how you can set up in the platform and still complete your buyer's request and engage with the benefits of the M2030 platform.

Option One: Complete a Corporate Submission for Intermediaries

How does it work?

Completing a corporate submission allows you to report relevant data from your owned sites (e.g., offices, warehouses etc.) and estimate the emissions from your third-party manufacturers using M2030’s Scope 3 Calculator.

This approach ensures buyers can still assess the environmental impact of your supplied products, whilst only needing one licence that acts as the hub for the submission.

This option may also be preferable if your organization wishes to maintain anonymity between your third-party manufacturers and the customers you supply.

How to proceed with a Corporate Submission

1. Register as an organization. For more information on how to do this see our article: Signing up to the M2030 Platform
   
   
2. Create a ‘corporate submission facility’. Create your facility using the following naming structure: “Organization Name – Corporate Submission”
   
   This will inform your customers about the type of submission you are completing, helping them understand how to interpret your data—for example, as a corporate submission rather than a facility-specific one.
   
   
3. Submit your Measurements. Add data where applicable, reporting usage from any owned sites such as warehouses and offices. For any fields that aren’t relevant just enter ‘0’. For guidance on completing this, check out 'Exploring Measurements’ articles.
   
   
4. Estimate Scope 3 Emissions- Within the measurements page you will find the scope 3 estimator. Since you do not have direct manufacturing, estimating your Scope 3 emissions allows you to account for the energy used by the third-party manufacturers that produce the supplied product.

• Want to learn how the scope 3 estimator works? See our article HERE

Option 2: Register your third-party manufacturing facilities directly

How does It work? 

In this option, instead of submitting a corporate submission, your third-party manufacturers can register directly to M2030 as independent suppliers. These manufacturers will then report their own data and select the ‘buyer’ that you supply to.

Options to consider

Decide on Third-Party Manufacturer Visibility Payment Agreement

• Consider whether you are comfortable with your buyer knowing the identity of your third-party manufacturers.
• The third-party manufacturers will be directly associated with the buyer in the system and their data will be available. To see what data your customer can see, click this article HERE

Payment Agreement
Payment responsibility must be agreed upon between you and the third-party manufacturer.

If your third-party manufacturer is covering the payment?
They can simply follow the standard payment process during registration. See the guide on completing sign-up HERE

If the intermediary is paying?

• Option 1- Pay by Card:
  Your third-party manufacturer can use the ‘Share payment link to colleague’ button to send you the payment link, allowing you to complete the transaction.

  

• Option 2- Pay by Invoice:

  Your third-party manufacturer should select ‘Request Proforma Invoice’ and enter your billing details (which should be gathered in advance). This ensures that the proforma invoice is sent directly to you for payment.

  

Once payment is completed the third-party manufacturer will have full access to the M2020 account and can proceed with selecting the relevant customer(s)’ and submits their data directly to them. Instructions can be found here.

Still unsure? Contact our team for more guidance!