GEMS Total - functionality

Compliance

Designed to international standards by experienced verifiers with over 19 years experience in developing and auditing large carbon systems gives our clients’ confidence in their results.

GEMS tracks and reports:

• Report all the emission sources required for compliance not just energy and invoiced data.
• To over 14 schemes in Australia alone.
• All Scope 1,2 & 3 emissions
• All component gases of scope 1 emissions required under the NGER determination.
• All service, energy, and materials costs and rate structures, demand and consumption, KPI's and productivity, waste composition, water and waste water etc.
• Projects as required under the EEO program
• Events as required under several programs.
• Contractor’s emissions as required.
• Water and waste water.
• All emission factors, methodologies and records to ensure your data is accurate, complete, and will consistently meet international reporting standards.

Improve performance

GEMS Total can be used to reduce administration, compliance, auditing, and operating costs. Its business intelligence functionality can be used to mine information and identity areas where business operations cost, emissions and carbon liabilities can be reduced.

• Compare performance and operating costs of facilities, plant and processes in an instant.
• GEMS provides a wide range of static and flexible reports for compliance, data and bill verification, project and performance reviews to name a few.

• GEMS monitors the cost and quantities of all materials and resources used by your organization in production and provision of services and conditions.
• Benchmark and compare cost, performance, consumption, productivity and  emissions against normal business performance indicators and standards.

• Set Targets - improve productivity across the organisation – identify where to focus effort for the best return.

• Measure the ROI, payback and impact energy and carbon saving initiatives.

Data management

• GEMS Total uses a hierarchical organizational and operational business structure to organize and manage the data captured.
• GEMS Total can be used to collect and process all the carbon emissions required for regulatory compliance and to establish and maintain carbon neutrality
• Data can be sourced from any source including utilities, suppliers, sensors, meters, other databases and control systems.
• Data can be categorized by organisational, operational and geographical locations, down to the end use and user for detailed analysis.
• Data management and reporting – from anywhere in the world.

Reduce Cost - Electronic Data Capture & Management

• Lower administration and audit cost - GEMS has been designed independent verifiers to streamline data collection, analysis and auditing.
• Electronically import data direct from suppliers, utilities, meters, and other systems.
• Reduce the time and cost of collecting energy, carbon, and resource consumption data.

• Reduce the cost and time required to manually key in and validate data by up to a factor of 30.
• Reduced human and invoice errors and increase the accuracy of data.
• GEMS will alert you to input anomalies and errors in bills and tariff charges.

• Data can be entered, imported and captured from as many diverse and remote locations as required.

• Automatic reports streamline compliance and internal reporting

Security- total

If the security of your operational data is a concern then GEMS is the system for you. With GEMS you can have your own database, and control access and functionality of all users.

• Being permissions based, managers have the ability to set multiple access/security levels for different users enabling access to different data, reports, and functionality.
• RISK of others corrupting or seeing your data is eliminated.

Flexible Reporting

GEMS Total offers customized reports, management structures, and dashboards for EEO, NGERs, NABERS, OSCAR and many other schemes. It also provides:

• Audits and Verification reports
• Performance and Productivity reports.
• Multiple format  - reports can be accessed and created online and exported in multiple formats – CSV, spreadsheet, PDF, MSWord etc

Audit tools and reports

Designed by experienced auditors and verifiers the built-in tools, reports and checks will dramatically reduce the cost of independent and assurance audits and verification of data, systems, reports and claims.

Benchmarking

GEMS Total offers a wide range of business, productivity, environmental and cost performance indicators including: square metres occupied, Full time equivalent employees (FTEs) and Students (FTES), hours of operation, number and type of computers, outpatients, beds, rooms, ambient temperature and production.

• Benchmark and compare performance, cost, and productivity at any level across the organisation, business units, facilities, sites, plant, and process and end user.
• Identify opportunities and target the worst offenders.
• Compare rates and tariffs to determine the most economical rate available from a range of suppliers.
• Set and compare reduction targets for electricity, fuel, energy, emissions etc at each site,     facility, business unit, process and team.

Flexibly

GEMS Total is suitable for users of all sizes from one site to thousands, from office buildings to refineries, chemical plants to mines.

The amount of detail collected and reported is up to you. GEMS Total enables users to simplify their data collection and reporting for straight forward compliance reporting, but can also be used at anytime to drill down further to analyse the potential savings within their organisation.

Emission factors are maintained by GEMS. However users can create and use customised emission factors to suit their situation.

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