The Schöffel Group builds the foundation for highly granular product carbon footprints with Cozero

Challenge

Managing highly complex product lists at the required level of granularity

Schöffel’s extensive product lists include hundreds of products with detailed material compositions across fabrics, linings, and inlays. This level of complexity made it hard to achieve the required granularity for emissions calculations using manual data transfers or standard bulk imports.

In particular, the challenge was to accurately reflect fiber-level emissions for each product while ensuring scalability, consistency, and auditability across the entire portfolio.

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Objective

Onboard all Scope 3.1 product emissions in just three months

The shared goal was to onboard all Scope 3.1 product emissions for Schöffel into Cozero within three months. The foundation for this work included complete product lists from the SPORT, PRO, TEC collections.

• Full coverage of Schöffel’s product portfolio in Cozero
• Maximum possible granularity at fiber level
• Scalable setup for future reporting cycles

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Approach

A three-phase process to balance granularity, completeness, and feasibility

Cozero analyzed Schöffel’s original product datasets and developed a custom data transformation and automation concept to map emissions with the highest possible level of detail. The overall process was structured into three distinct phases, each addressing different data and calculation challenges.

Phase 1: Fiber-level calculation with maximum granularity

In the first phase, Cozero and Schöffel aligned on units of measurement, emission factors, and calculation logic. Based on this foundation, Cozero calculated fiber-level emissions for every available product.

This included:

• Establishing calculation and data transformation logic
  
  
• Calculating fiber weights at fabric, lining, and inlay level
  
  
• Accounting for recycled and organic material shares

Phase 1 was successfully completed in four weeks.

Phase 2: Closing data gaps and reducing zero values

After the initial upload, Cozero identified several thousand entries with no emissions caused by data gaps at fiber-weight level. Schöffel was able to provide additional calculation parameters for several hundred fiber rows, which were then recalculated and uploaded.

This phase was completed within two weeks.

Phase 3: Ensuring full product coverage despite missing fiber data

In the final phase, several thousand fiber-level entries still lacked the required inputs for precise calculations and could not be completed retrospectively. To ensure that all products were fully represented in Cozero, Cozero developed a pragmatic and transparent approach that prioritized product-level completeness, while clearly documenting limitations at fiber level.

The Phase 3 methodology included:

• Identifying products and product components with missing emissions data
  
  
• Calculating how much of each product’s total weight had already been accounted for
  
  
• Determining the remaining uncalculated weight per product
  
  
• Applying a textile emission factor to the remaining share

• Creating a dedicated transparency report documenting:
  
  
  • Whether each product is fully accounted for
    
    
  • Which components were calculated in Phase 3
    
    
  • Which fiber details remain missing

Finally, this phase was completed within six weeks due to the complexity of establishing a robust, albeit estimative approach to data gaps. 

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Results

A robust foundation for detailed product and corporate carbon accounting

Through the collaboration, Cozero and Schöffel created a highly granular and scalable emissions dataset.

• ~566 Schöffel products onboarded
  
  
• ~7,000 fiber-level log entries created
  
  
• Full Scope 3.1 product coverage in Cozero
  
  
• Strong foundation for product-level and corporate CO₂ accounting

 “With Cozero, we’ve turned emissions management into a data-driven decision tool and not just into a reporting task.” – Marco Tenace, Director Operations Schoeffel Group

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Value for the Schöffel Group

Transparency, scalability, and readiness for future reporting

Schöffel now benefits from:

• A transparent and traceable emissions model
  
  
• Clear documentation of assumptions and data gaps
  
  
• A scalable setup that can evolve as product data quality improves
  
  
• A solid baseline for future reporting, reduction strategies, and communication

With the foundation for comprehensive product and corporate carbon accounting now in place, the collaboration between Schöffel and Cozero is moving from data onboarding toward strategic impact. In the next step, the established results will inform decarbonization planning through Cozero’s ACT module, supporting the structured identification, prioritization, and assessment of potential emissions reduction measures across Schöffel’s product and corporate footprint. Alongside this, the next phase focuses on analyzing Schöffel’s CO₂ results for the completed 2024 reporting period and translating these insights into actionable learnings. Building on this transparency, both teams will also explore opportunities to communicate joint achievements externally and to position emissions data as a valuable input for strategic decision making.

At the same time, Cozero and Schöffel will work closely to further streamline reporting processes, with the goal of making future reporting cycles in 2025 and 2026 even leaner and more efficient. In parallel, the teams are preparing the next evolution of the collaboration by planning a dedicated product portfolio initiative, enabling deeper insights, continuous improvement, and a scalable approach to emissions management across Schöffel’s entire product range.

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