Preliminary Research Work for Sustainability Assessments Integrated Within Enterprise Information Systems
摘要
The consideration of environmental impacts is more and more present in companies’ policies and strategies. To answer this request, many methods of sustainability assessment have been developed, such as life cycle assessment or circularity assessment to evaluate the environmental impacts and on human health of assessed products or services. These sustainability assessments use sustainability indicators to assess the environmental impacts and on human health. In the literature many sustainability indicators are described; choosing the most adequate one can be a difficult task for the designers who want to assess the environmental impacts and on human health of their designs. Enterprise information systems provide most of the necessary data to the realization of sustainability assessments and enable the implementation of these assessments in the industry. This paper firstly covers a state-of-the-art review on sustainability indicators and how the data issued from the enterprise information systems is useful in practicing sustainability assessments. Then, this paper presents preliminary research work regarding a proposed framework for the data integration of enterprise information systems to help carry out sustainability assessments.