Scope 3 supplier data pack for Australian businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

CapEasy prepares the data pack; anything lodged or assured runs through your registered agent and an AUASB-registered assurance practitioner respectively.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for scope 3 supplier data pack — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Scope 3 supplier data pack sits inside esg & sustainability, alongside AASB S2 readiness assessment, Group 3 “no material risk” statement prep. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

There's usually no statutory obligation on the supplier — Group 1 reporting duties under AASB S2 sit with the customer, not with you, unless your own business independently crosses a Group threshold. The commercial reality is that the customer needs this data for their own mandatory disclosure, and answering it well is what keeps the relationship and the contract on good terms.

Not from answering a data request alone. AASB S2 applies to Group 1, 2 and 3 entities defined by their own size and NGER-registration thresholds under the Treasury Laws Amendment Act 2024. If the numbers in your own business suggest you're approaching a Group 3 threshold, we'll flag that separately — it's a different assessment to this pack.

Category 1 — Purchased Goods and Services — is one of 15 categories in the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, and for most companies it's the largest single category in their value-chain emissions because it covers everything they buy. If you supply your customer with goods or services, your emissions in producing and delivering them sit inside their Category 1 number, which is why they're asking you directly rather than estimating it themselves.

Supplier-specific means the figure comes from your own metered or measured activity data — a fuel receipt, an electricity bill, an actual freight distance. Spend-based means a dollar total for a purchase category is run through a published emission factor to produce an estimate, which is the realistic starting method for most SME suppliers on their first request. Both are recognised under the GHG Protocol; the pack labels which one applies to each line so nobody mistakes an estimate for a measurement.

Yes, that's the normal starting point. We build the calculation from invoices, utility bills and accounting records you already have — fuel receipts, electricity bills, purchase categories — rather than requiring a metering or monitoring system to already exist.

Almost always one reporting period — the customer's own financial year, or the specific period named in their questionnaire. We calculate against whichever period the request actually asks for and use the emission factors current to that period, not a generic annual estimate.

Not as part of this engagement. The pack is prepared data for a customer request, not a lodged or assured disclosure. If your own business later needs a statement that does require assurance, that runs through an AUASB-registered assurance practitioner as a separate, later engagement.

The underlying calculation — Scope 1, 2 and Category 1 Scope 3 for the reporting period — is built once and populated into whichever format each customer's own questionnaire uses. You're not redoing the calculation for every customer, just re-presenting it.

It's a useful head start — the Scope 1/2 baseline and the purchased-goods Scope 3 data carry forward — but AASB S2 readiness is a broader assessment covering governance, strategy, risk and scenario analysis, not just emissions data, and that's a separate leaf with its own scope.

This pack covers the emissions data itself. A stated reduction target or transition plan is a strategic commitment your business makes, not a figure we calculate on your behalf, and we'd flag that distinction rather than fill in a target for you.

The next year's pack is calculated against the current NGER factor set and current GHG Protocol guidance for that period, not carried forward unchanged — factors are revised annually, and reusing an old figure would misstate the new period.