Minerva Foods

With SINAI, Minerva consolidated their carbon management initiatives, covering Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. The platform enabled bulk data uploads, advanced scenario modeling, and financial feasibility analysis. These features allowed Minerva to build a dynamic database of projects and maintain continuity in their decarbonization strategy.

• Time savings through data automation: SINAI’s bulk data processing significantly reduced manual data entry, allowing the team to focus on strategic planning.
• Dynamic decarbonization strategy development: SINAI empowered Minerva to model, analyze, and refine projects in real-time, enabling more accurate and actionable insights for leadership.
• Automating reportgin with BI: SINAI's BI Portal increased Minerva's efficiency for reporting connecting data directly to custom dashboards which will be used for main reporting standards/frameworks such as CDP, GHG Protocol Brazil and GRI.

Outdated Tools and Fragmented Processes

Minerva Foods faced challenges in managing its decarbonization strategy without a platform that could centralize the necessary data and information. Although the company used a carbon accounting software, it was limited to emissions tracking and lacked capabilities for strategic planning or scenario modeling to support their decarbonization goals. Consequently, Minerva Foods’ sustainability team depended heavily on spreadsheets for project evaluation and business case development. This fragmented approach resulted in inefficiencies, including slow workflows, and difficulty adapting to strategic shifts.

For example, recalibrating decarbonization projects or updating financial models required duplicating or recreating spreadsheets, which were disconnected from the carbon accounting inventory, hindering their ability to maintain a comprehensive and dynamic view of their sustainability efforts, especially when their historical emissions and emission forecasts change. These limitations made it difficult for Minerva Foods to achieve the agility and efficiency necessary for driving impactful climate action.

To overcome these challenges, Minerva Foods aimed to centralize and modernize their carbon accounting and decarbonization processes. They needed a solution that could handle their extensive Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data and connect this data to decarbonization opportunities to streamline the investment decision making process. Additionally, Minerva Foods sought to provide their leadership with clear, actionable insights into potential decarbonization projects, ensuring that sustainability efforts aligned with business growth and strategic objectives.

Minerva Achieving Proactive Decarbonization with SINAI

Foods evaluated several platforms before selecting SINAI as their preferred solution. With high sustainability maturity, they required more than a basic emissions tracking tool—they needed a platform capable of integrating emissions data with strategic decarbonization planning tools. SINAI’s modules for emissions forecasting, project planning and decarbonization roadmapping or scenario analysis, stood out as essential tools for enabling Minerva Foods to take a more proactive approach to decarbonization.

Unlike static reports or Excel files often produced by consultancy services, SINAI provided Minerva Foods with a dynamic database of projects and strategies. This allows them to continuously refine and expand their initiatives, ensuring that their decarbonization roadmap remains relevant and actionable over time.

Centralizing Data Management

SINAI introduced a level of automation that fundamentally transformed Minerva Foods’ workflows. Bulk data uploads reduced the need to input individual data points manually, saving significant time and reducing the risk of errors. With consolidated and validated data readily available, the team could focus on higher-value activities, such as analyzing potential projects and developing strategic recommendations.

Scaling Decarbonization Efforts

The platform’s project modeling tools allows Minerva Foods to evaluate the feasibility of specific decarbonization initiatives. By incorporating variables like internal carbon pricing, they can identify opportunities where projects that initially appeared unviable became cost-effective. These insights will be instrumental in creating a portfolio of potential projects to present to their leadership moving forward, complete with detailed environmental and financial metrics. This streamlined approach will enable Minerva Foods to gain leadership buy-in and prioritize impactful initiatives.

Automating CDP, GRP and GHG Protocol Brazil Reporting

The integration with SINAI’s BI portal provided Minerva Foods with a powerful tool to meet various reporting requirements, including CDP, GRI and GHG Protocol Brazil. Reports are now automated and customized as necessary, significantly reducing workload while enhancing accuracy and consistency.

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SINAI transformTangible Impacts on Efficiency and Strategy

SINAI transformed Minerva Foods’s approach to managing emissions data, saving significant time and effort in the process. By consolidating and validating most of the data within the platform, the workflow was streamlined and the operational efficiency was  improved.

SINAI provided Minerva Foods with the tools to develop a more dynamic decarbonization strategy. The platform’s modeling capabilities enabled the team to create a living database of decarbonization initiatives, ensuring that projects could be refined and adjusted over time without starting from scratch. This continuity in planning has strengthened Minerva Foods’ ability to adapt to evolving challenges and opportunities, paving the way for sustained progress in their sustainability efforts.

Finally, the integration of SINAI’s BI portal brought an entirely new level of efficiency to Minerva Foods’s reporting processes. Now, with automated and customizable reporting features, Minerva Foods can generate these reports directly from the platform, saving time and ensuring consistency. This improvement not only reduces the workload on their sustainability team but also enhances their ability to respond to internal and external reporting requests promptly and accurately.