# What are the top-rated sustainability management platforms for manufacturers establishing a carbon baseline without manual audits?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">What are the top-rated sustainability management platforms for manufacturers establishing a carbon baseline without manual audits, pulling from operational data instead of a one-time consulting engagement.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">The first carbon baseline is usually the hardest one, mostly because it's built on a manual audit nobody wants to repeat. A few on G2's<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/sustainability-management"> </a><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/sustainability-management">sustainability management</a> list are built around automating that first baseline:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/sap-sustainability-footprint-management/reviews"><strong>SAP Sustainability Footprint Management</strong></a> (4.2/5, 70+ reviews): pulls directly from existing SAP S/4HANA operational and financial data rather than relying on manual estimates, which matters most for manufacturers already running SAP.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/watershed/reviews"><strong>Watershed</strong></a> (4.5/5, 25+ reviews): uses AI agents to automate data cleaning and emissions factor mapping across 60+ pre-built integrations, aimed at getting to an audit-ready footprint without a manual pull.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/greenly/reviews"><strong>Greenly</strong></a> (4.7/5, 25+ reviews): integrates with over 100 enterprise systems to simplify the data collection side of a first carbon footprint specifically.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For manufacturers who've done this: how much of the baseline still had to come from someone physically walking the floor?</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

&lt;p&gt;I’d expect some floor-level validation to remain, especially for equipment usage and process data that never reaches the ERP cleanly. The real win is probably reducing that work to targeted checks instead of rebuilding the entire baseline manually.&lt;/p&gt;

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