Data-Driven Sustainability: How Sustamize and Pacemaker.ai Are Shaping the Future of Sustainable Supply Chains

Driving a More Sustainable Supply Chain – Sustamize x Pacemaker.ai

Sustainability in supply chains has become a business-critical priority.
As regulatory pressure increases and transparency expectations grow, companies across industries are realizing that sustainability decisions are only as good as the data behind them. To turn complex emissions data into actionable insights, strategic partnerships and high-quality CO₂ information are key.

This is exactly where sustamize and pacemaker.ai come together. The partnership between both companies was born from a shared vision: empowering companies to make data-driven decisions for more sustainable supply chains. Both partners bring complementary strengths to the table — pacemaker.ai provides strategic analysis, certified emissions calculations and AI-based decision support, while sustamize delivers the high-quality CO₂ data foundation that ensures these decisions are accurate, comparable, and actionable.

From Data Challenge to Partnership: Turning Supply Chain Emissions into Actionable Insights

The collaboration started with a clear challenge:
How can companies make CO₂ emissions in complex supply chains transparent, measurable, and comparable — and, more importantly, how can they use this data to take concrete action?

Pacemaker.ai evaluated various data providers and quickly identified three key factors: data quality, timeliness, and certification. After a detailed review of Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) values and underlying data methodologies, sustamize emerged as the ideal partner. The decision went beyond technical criteria, both companies share acommon mission: making sustainability measurable and actionable.

Pacemaker.ai’s decision was based not only on data quality and certification but also on finding a partner with the right expertise and mindset. That’s where sustamize came in. Based in Germany, sustamize is a Data-as-a-Service company specializing in CO₂ data and sustainable product management. Its mission is simple yet powerful: to turn data into the foundation for sustainable decision-making.

Sustamize develops comprehensive, validated databases that make product- and material-level CO₂ emissions transparent. The data is updated at least twice a year, continuously expanded, and fully aligned with international standards such as the GHG Protocol, ISO 14067, and Catena-X requirements. What truly sets sustamize apart is the combination of scientific rigor and practical application. Companies can seamlessly integrate this data into their existing systems, enabling them not only to design sustainability strategies but also to implement them operationally across the value chain.

The Data-Driven Path to Sustainable Transformation in Supply Chains

Both sustamize and pacemaker.ai share the same vision: empowering companies to make data-driven sustainability decisions with confidence. As innovators in their fields, both rely on AI-supported and automated processes to meet the evolving demands of modern supply chain and sustainability management.

By integrating sustamize’s high-quality CO₂ data directly into pacemaker.ai’s AI-driven analytical tool, the partnership creates a seamless connection between accurate data and strategic action — from procurement and production to logistics and sustainability management.

What makes this collaboration stand out is sustamize’s unique bottom-up approach to carbon data modeling. Instead of relying on generic averages, sustamize builds granular, product- and material-level data that ensures no data gaps across the value chain. The datasets are continuously updated and expanded, providing reliable and transparent insights for every step of the supply chain.

For pacemaker.ai’s clients, this means access to a unified and comprehensive data foundation that can be easily integrated into existing systems, enabling precise emission analyses, identifying optimization opportunities, and implementing measurable reduction measures with confidence.

Together, sustamize and pacemaker.ai turn sustainability from a vision into a data-backed, operational reality.

Who Benefits from the Collaboration – and Why It Matters Now

The partnership between sustamize and pacemaker.ai is designed for medium-sized and large enterprises across manufacturing, retail, and industrial sectors that are driving their sustainability transformation. These organizations face increasing expectations, from regulators, customers, and investors alike — to measure, reduce, and transparently communicate their carbon footprint (CO₂e) across the entire value chain. Through the combination of sustamize’s verified, bottom-up CO₂ data and pacemaker.ai’s decision intelligence, companies gain a powerful foundation for data-driven sustainability management. They can accurately assess emissions, identify reduction opportunities, and implement measures that not only fulfill compliance requirements but also strengthen their competitive position in global markets.

Opportunities on the Horizon

The collaboration comes at a pivotal time. Several factors are accelerating sustainable transformation:

• Stricter regulations such as CSRD, EU Taxonomy, and the Supply Chain Act are increasing the need for traceable, verifiable emissions data.
• Customers and stakeholders are demanding greater transparency and proof of measurable sustainability.
• Technological progress in data integration and automation enables faster, more precise analysis of supply chain emissions.

Together, these drivers create fertile ground for companies that leverage trusted CO₂ data and digital sustainability tools to move from compliance-driven reporting to continuous improvement and real impact.

Remaining Challenges

Yet, the path toward fully transparent supply chains is not without obstacles. Many organizations still struggle with the heterogeneity of data sources, making it difficult to establish standardized methodologies across global networks. Additionally, data gaps remain a persistent issue, especially in complex, multi-tier supply chains. These can only be closed through targeted data collection, validation, and collaboration between suppliers, data providers, and technology partners like sustamize and pacemaker.ai.

By addressing these challenges head-on, the partnership helps companies turn sustainability from a regulatory necessity into a strategic advantage, backed by high-quality, gap-free data and actionable insights.

Driving the Low-Carbon Transformation Through Data-Driven Collaboration

The partnership demonstrates how technology, data quality, and strategic consulting can work hand in hand to accelerate the transition toward a low-carbon economy.

With precise, up-to-date, and verified CO₂ data, sustamize empowers pacemaker.ai to provide its clients with a reliable foundation for strategic, effective, and sustainable decision-making. Together, they enable companies not only to meet regulatory requirements such as CSRD and ESG reporting but also to actively drive the decarbonization of the global economy through data-driven action.

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