Epicor’s new Carbon Cost Rollup solution reimagines traditional cost accounting by applying the same structure to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Instead of merely tallying dollars and cents, manufacturers can now roll up carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions across their bill of materials and operations—calculating, with precision, the environmental cost of every finished product.
As federal and international sustainability mandates are reduced and/or paused, companies maintain their focus on environmental objectives and accountability measures. Manufacturers need tools that integrate climate accountability into the systems they already use, not more standalone dashboards.
What Carbon Cost Rollup offers is not just functionality—it reflects an important philosophical shift: carbon is no longer a retrospective metric. It becomes an operational input.
This integration means teams can:
Kerrie Jordan, Group Vice President at Epicor, put it succinctly:
“Organizations can now address their carbon footprint with the same precision and rigor as their financial costs.”
At a time when ESG strategies are under pressure to deliver measurable results, this approach offers manufacturers a path to align sustainability with business outcomes—a key demand from stakeholders, regulators, and increasingly, customers.
By embedding emissions data at the core of ERP systems, companies reduce the friction between sustainability and productivity. This approach minimizes the need for parallel reporting systems, lowers the burden of data reconciliation, and can ultimately accelerate decarbonization without disrupting profitability.
The broader significance lies in the normalization of environmental accounting across industrial sectors. As this concept gains traction, we may see carbon costs internalized not just at the enterprise level but up and down supply chains, informing procurement, pricing, and investment decisions.
While Epicor’s Carbon Cost Rollup is one solution among many emerging in this space, its architecture—and the choice to patent the method—signals that carbon accounting is entering a new phase of maturity. It’s no longer enough to quantify emissions. Leading manufacturers are embedding accountability at the core of their systems and strategies.
As the landscape continues to evolve, carbon rollup logic may become standard practice in ERP design, procurement audits, and investor due diligence alike.
