by Brianna Crandall — June 18, 2014—Global public health and environmental standards organization NSF International announced a new reporting tool for sustainability standards and compliance at the NeoCon 2014 contract furnishings show in Chicago last week.
NSF Performance Plus turnkey dashboard reporting tool is designed to deliver an affordable, accurate, and time-effective alternative to spreadsheets and other manual reporting methods to capture corporate-, facility- and product-level environmental data, including water, waste, energy and more. The product’s distinguishing feature is that NSF Performance Plus is powered by best-in-class PE International SoFi software, voted top product for 2014 by Environmental Leader magazine.
NSF Performance Plus can help speed the reporting process and enable faster audit paperwork processing for sustainability standards, compliance, or environmental management system reporting. Internal operational benefits include creating awareness of energy, water and waste spend and the subsequent improvements to reduce those costs. Payback potential can be quick for many of these projects, says NSF.
Pre-defined questionnaires reportedly make data collection easy for new users. Graphs and reports can be configured to meet internal reporting preferences. NSF Sustainability product certification customers will find questionnaires pre-formatted to meet NSF standards reporting requirements.
According to NSF, Performance Plus can grow with the organization, and will meet the needs of most groups today and into the future. As an organization’s reporting needs get more complex, the users can add features within the tool. If, eventually, the organization outgrows the functionality of the NSF Performance Plus tool, it can transition into the PE International SoFI tool. NSF notes that in this case, there is no need to shop for another product, transfer data, or suffer the learning curve associated with a change in reporting systems, as the switch will be invisible to the organization.
