Arnott’s will be the first company in Australia and New Zealand to deploy the Microsoft Sustainability Manager
Arnott’s Group and Microsoft announced a new partnership to help the food chain transform its sustainability agenda by using data more effectively.
Arnott’s Group will become the first organization in Australia and New Zealand to deploy Microsoft’s Sustainability Manager. The Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability solution unifies data intelligence and provides comprehensive, integrated, and automated sustainability management for organizations at any stage of their sustainability journey.
Simon Lowden, Director of Transformation at Arnott’s Group, said that one of the key benefits of partnering with Microsoft is the ability to collect better quality data more efficiently in order to provide a single view of sustainability performance across the business. .
“Sustainability impacts all areas of our business and requires every member of our team to play a role,” he says. “By democratizing data through Microsoft’s Sustainability Manager, our teams are able to better visualize progress and define our targets.”
Using Microsoft’s Sustainability Manager, Arnott’s Group will have greater visibility into its emissions-generating activities. This will allow the business, for the first time, to report impact and progress in near real time.
The solution will also give Arnott’s Group access to the data intelligence it needs to refine and scale its sustainability initiatives, achieve end-to-end corporate transformation and educate everyone across the company regarding its progress.
Lowden scores:
We are committed to achieving our goals and believe that Microsoft Sustainability Manager has the potential to help us achieve them ahead of schedule.
Arnott’s Group sustainability commitments include:
- sustainable growth and supply of 100% of its main ingredients (wheat flour, sugar, oils, dairy and cocoa products) by 2035
- achieve net zero emissions in its operations (Scope 1 and 2) by 2040 and across the value chain (Scope 3) by 2050
- reduce, reuse or repurpose plastic packaging in Australia and New Zealand by 10% by 2025
- increasing choice, opportunity and well-being by promoting inclusion and belonging, supporting communities and providing more diverse food choices and nutrition guidance.
Sean McLintock, Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Arnott’s Group, said: “It’s important that we illuminate our end-to-end sustainability data to continue to hold ourselves accountable for meeting our sustainability goals.”
We’re investing in leveraging our digital skills and Microsoft’s Sustainability Manager is the right tool to drive efficiency and help track, aggregate, analyze and report on a diverse and complex set of sustainability data.
Brett Shoemaker, Director of Sustainability at Microsoft Australia and New Zealand said, “At Microsoft, we recognize the critical role that technology can play in empowering our customers to accelerate their sustainability journeys. We are excited to partner with such an iconic Australian brand that turns its promises into real, measurable progress.”
The deployment of Microsoft’s Sustainability Manager, which Arnott’s group expects to complete in March, follows a major data transformation project started by the company last year. This process included investing in a data lake hosted by Microsoft Azure to centralize business reporting and create a single source of truth.
“Arnott’s is a 157-year-old company, but we’re nimble from a digital investment standpoint,” said Lowden. “We are truly transforming the way our business operates both in the ways we work and the strategic partners we are choosing to work with.”
“Our new sustainability partnership with Microsoft is a perfect example of this.”
