SustainableBA – ERP for Sustainability-Focused Enterprises
-60%
Reporting Time
99.8%
Data Accuracy
100%
Audit Readiness
Industry
Enterprise SaaS / Supply Chain
Services
Web Development, AI/ML Integration, Analytics & BI, SaaS Development
Tech Stack
React.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, IoT Sensor Integrations
Duration
6 months
What Needed to Change
SustainableBA's target clients — mid to large enterprises committed to sustainability mandates — were using conventional ERPs that had no capability to capture or report on environmental and social performance data.
Energy consumption, carbon emissions, water usage, and supply chain sustainability metrics were tracked in disconnected spreadsheets and submitted to auditors annually in manually assembled reports. With BRSR (Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting) mandates tightening under SEBI guidelines, enterprises needed a reliable, audit-ready digital system to capture, normalize, and disclose ESG data alongside their financial and operational metrics. The absence of integrated sustainability tracking also meant that leadership couldn't identify inefficiencies — such as energy-heavy processes or high-emission supplier dependencies — without commissioning expensive third-party audits.
How We Solved It
Brihat Infotech built SustainableBA as an ESG-native ERP module that integrated with existing finance and operations systems. The Integrated ESG Module captured energy, water, emissions, and waste data at the process and facility level through IoT sensor integrations and manual submission workflows, with validation rules to ensure data quality. A Compliance Automation Engine mapped captured metrics to BRSR, GRI, CDP, and custom framework requirements — auto-generating disclosure-ready reports with supporting evidence trails. The Unified Dashboard brought sustainability KPIs (Scope 1, 2, 3 emissions; energy intensity; water recycling ratios) alongside financial and operational metrics — giving leadership a complete performance picture. Supplier Sustainability Scorecards allowed procurement teams to assess and rank vendors based on their environmental and social practices. An audit trail on every data point — with capture timestamp, submission author, and revision history — ensured full readiness for regulatory and third-party audits.
What We Built
React.js integration and configuration
Node.js integration and configuration
PostgreSQL integration and configuration
IoT Sensor Integrations integration and configuration
AWS integration and configuration
BRSR / GRI Compliance Engine integration and configuration
ERP API Connectors integration and configuration
Audit Trail Module integration and configuration
The Results
-60%
Reporting Time
99.8%
Data Accuracy
100%
Audit Readiness
+30%
Cost Efficiency
Lessons We're Taking Forward
Understand before you build
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Boring technology ships faster
Proven stacks with strong community support reduce debugging time significantly compared to bleeding-edge choices that look impressive on paper.
Operational excellence is a feature
Logging, alerting, and runbooks are not afterthoughts. They're the difference between a 3-hour outage and a 3-minute fix.
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