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Return on investment · Product Carbon Footprint

What does product carbon data cost you today, and what do you save with osapiens.

The consultancy route costs ~€20k per product LCA. osapiens calculates a PCF for every BOM you upload, so 50% of the internal effort and 50% of the external spend disappear, and the per-product math becomes absurd in your favour.

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What you'll need - the numbers behind your value case
These are the inputs behind the calculation. Real figures give the most accurate result, where a number isn't known, a best estimate works fine.
  • Products needing a PCF
  • Average material components per product
  • What consultancies quoted per LCA
  • FTEs doing PCF / LCA work
  • External LCA consultant spend per year
  • Which customers are asking for PCFs
Why it matters: these numbers define the size of the problem, and they are the basis your management will ask about anyway.

Your product carbon demand

size of the problem
Customer requests, tenders, battery regulation, CSRD product lines, count what the market is already asking for.
products
A battery has thousands. Every component needs an emission factor, manually that is the whole problem.
components
Market rate is around €20k per product. Multiply by your product count, that is the outsourcing alternative.
/ product

Internal effort & external spend

the 50% levers
Collecting BOMs, hunting emission factors, building spreadsheets per product.
FTE
Per-product LCA studies, methodology reviews, data collection support.
/ year
Annual saving with osapiens
€0
Fill in your numbers on the left
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ROI year 1
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Investment amortization
1 · Size of the problem
€20k per product: that is the consultancy market rate for one LCA, and a battery has thousands of components.
Upload 10,000 BOMs, get a PCF for every single one. That is the osapiens way, the marginal cost of the next footprint is zero.
2 · Real value - your current spend
Internal team (PCF / LCA work) -
External LCA & PCF consultants -
Total annual cost of product carbon data today -
Savings with osapiens
Internal effort automated away -
External spend reduced -
osapiens investment - AE fills in
Annual SaaS license − €/yr
Net annual benefit (from year 2) -
3 · Other benefits - Qualitative assessment
Market access & revenue growth. Customers and consumers are asking for PCFs in tenders today, answer in days and win deals competitors cannot quote.
Primary beats secondary. Secondary data is cheap but discounted by buyers, supplier-based primary data makes your footprint a sales argument, not a disclaimer.
Scale without hires. 400 products today, every BOM you upload tomorrow, the platform calculates, your team validates.
One data model with CCF & CBAM. The supplier emission data you collect feeds corporate footprint and border adjustment too, collected once, used three times.
How this is calculated
  • Internal effort: FTE loaded cost €/year × 50% reduction through automated BOM-based PCF calculation.
  • External spend: LCA / PCF consultancy × 50% reduction, the platform calculates what consultancies bill per product.
  • The ~€20k consultancy rate per LCA anchors the size of the problem, it is a market reference, never charged as a saving.
  • All scale numbers come from the customer. No osapiens guesses, if unknown, it's the customer's best guess.
  • Market access, data credibility and revenue growth are shown as benefits, not priced into the ROI.
Value case · Product Carbon Footprint
Return on investment  ·  osapiens HUB  ·  Carbon Management

Product Carbon Footprint, your value case.

Prepared based on internal discussions
1Size of the problem

2Indicative calculations
Today · without osapiens
Tomorrow · with osapiens
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ROI year 1
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Investment amortization
3Other benefits
4How this was calculated

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