In response to a critical market need for carbon reduction strategies based upon actual, accurate, and actionable business intelligence, a group of transportation industry veterans has launched Scope23. The technology company is dedicated to making shipping sustainable for shippers and transportation service providers.

"We did not set out to offer just another emissions reporting product,” said Shaleen Devgun, EVP and chief innovation and technology officer at Schneider National, Inc., a provider of truckload, intermodal and logistics services. Devgun is a co-founder and board member of Scope23. “Our vision was to create an action platform, one that deploys actual shipment level data and AI to facilitate thoughtful decision-making by companies with a genuine interest in achieving critical decarbonization goals." 

In a statement, the group pointed to a recent survey by Boston Consulting Group that found 87 percent of leaders believe that AI is a helpful tool to reduce climate change. The report also shows that AI has the potential to help mitigate 5 percent to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030. 

Scope23, which is receiving initial funding from Schneider and Pilot Company, intends to fill the gap for shippers and carriers with a platform that operationalizes carbon accounting into existing transportation and purchasing procedures.


"We are testing Scope23's flagship product, GreenSight, with both our proprietary trucks and our third-party carriers," said Jeff Simon, transportation procurement and sustainability associate manager at PepsiCo. "We're capturing data points, such as shipping origins and destinations, charging infrastructure and alternative fueling options—all the factors that drive how we ship. GreenSight then compiles and easily organizes the information and, through AI, offers specific recommendations by lane, region or business unit. They're even customizing dashboards to show greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions by regions, lanes and carriers."

PepsiCo and Scope23 have commitments from the majority of PepsiCo's third-party transportation fleet partners to provide comprehensive shipment-level data, expanding upon Scope23's existing dataset which includes data from Schneider and other carriers.

"We've embedded Scope23 within various teams across PepsiCo North America to build solutions that help us meet our sustainability goals," said Adam Buttgenbach, director of fleet engineering and sustainability at PepsiCo. "Having granular shipment-level visibility to our current carbon emissions has provided a lot of value in understanding how to reduce GHG emissions best."

Brian Stuelpner, vice president of product and innovation at Schneider, and co-founder and board member of Scope23, added that the more shippers and carriers participate, the more robust and actionable the information. He said road-level data is foundational, as is widespread participation by fleets. 

“Carriers and shippers will greatly benefit from this type of shared business intelligence. Carriers can gain a competitive edge with their customers by showcasing their ability to reduce Scope 3 emissions,” he said. “Shippers know that they cannot reduce their transportation-related carbon emissions in a silo. The platform provides visibility to the impact that different decisions can have."

Jeff Summerson, head of product at Scope23, said with this project, the group is building into a market that largely didn't exist a few years ago. He noted, the tipping point around sustainability commitments has arrived, and shippers and carriers need software tools to meet their decarbonization targets. 

“What we've built is a zero-agony experience that allows for an all-in-one-place emissions management and reduction platform for transportation, a decarbonization decision engine for climate accounting and action," he said.