The project “Solution and Services Engineering for Measuring, Monitoring, and Management of Organizations’ Environmental Performance Indicators” (OEPI) is an international research project supported by the European Commission. Eight partners with either industry or science background from different countries and with varying competences are engaged in this project.

Main Goal

The main goal is the development of a set of standardized Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI) and a software solution for collection, management and reporting based on EPIs. End users as managers, project leaders and employees from the corporate communication and corporate social responsibility resort of a company shall be able to use the platform for a more environmental-friendly decision making and communication. They can access the platform through different consumption channels, such as mobile end devices, internet, ERP access or web services. The solution is aimed to support enterprises and organizations on their way to an integrated and company-wide environment-oriented management and to allow for a completely new way of internal and external communication about environmental activities and impact of companies.

Vision

The vision of the OEPI project is that business users – across industries and supply chains – will be able to continuously reduce the environmental impact of their daily operations. To achieve this, they will have the visibility into the Environmental Performance Indicators (EPIs) of alternative decisions in corporate and supply chain operations.

Mission

OEPI will work towards its stated vision by developing services that calculate EPIs and integrate them into business solutions. The users will leverage these services to integrate EPIs into their daily business decisions, both in their enterprise but also across their supply chain.