Sustainability reporting updates in Europe

European sustainability reporting has moved from nice-to-have to legal obligation. With the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards, a far wider set of companies must now report detailed, audited environmental and social data.

What is changing

The scope of who must report has expanded significantly, the data required is more granular, and — crucially — much of it must be assured. That raises the bar on data quality, traceability and process discipline.

Why it is an ERP problem

Most of the data CSRD demands already lives in your ERP: energy and materials consumption, supply-chain records, workforce data, asset information. The challenge is collecting it consistently, attributing it correctly, and producing numbers you can defend in an audit.

• Single source of truth. Sustainability data should flow from the same IFS records that run operations.
• Auditability. Every figure needs a clear, traceable lineage.
• Automation. Manual spreadsheets do not scale to audited, periodic reporting.

How to prepare

IFS customers should start by mapping reporting requirements to existing data, closing the gaps, and automating collection. EX10 helps customers turn IFS into a reliable backbone for sustainability reporting — and NgageFlow can automate the recurring data pulls and checks that keep you compliant.