IFS, a Swedish enterprise software company that builds applications for manufacturing, asset management and service operations, has launched IFS Zero, a platform for measuring, reporting and reducing carbon emissions in industries that operate large physical assets. The product calculates emissions across the three categories defined by greenhouse gas accounting standards: Scope 1 for direct emissions, Scope 2 for purchased energy and Scope 3 for emissions across the supply chain.
IFS Zero works alongside the company's existing Sustainability Management module, which collects sustainability data across emissions, social impact and diversity metrics for corporate reporting. Where that module handles enterprise-wide disclosures, IFS Zero focuses specifically on carbon, providing emissions data at a more granular and real-time level intended to support operational decisions rather than periodic reporting.
The problem the product addresses is that emissions data in industrial organisations is often fragmented across systems, requiring manual reconciliation and significant time to assemble into reports. IFS Zero applies AI agents across the data lifecycle, mapping emission sources, validating data, flagging anomalies and producing outputs ready for audit. IFS states that the system can produce an audit-ready emissions baseline in weeks, save hundreds of hours of operational time annually and reduce data collection effort by 30%.
The company also cited research from Generation Investment Management, a sustainable investment firm that is an IFS investor, suggesting that if its technology were fully adopted across the three largest industrial sectors it serves, it could help abate more than 2% of global CO₂ emissions.
IFS Zero launches alongside IFS Cloud 26R1, the latest version of the company's cloud platform, which becomes generally available on May 28, 2026, with updates across enterprise resource planning, service management, enterprise asset management and aviation maintenance.
"With IFS Zero, we're fundamentally changing how industrial companies approach emissions management. For too long, sustainability has meant slow deployments, manual spreadsheets, and reporting after the fact. IFS Zero replaces that with an agentic operating system that delivers an emissions baseline in short timescales and enables visibility into your day-to-day operations. It allows customers to move beyond compliance and start using sustainability as a true strategic advantage," said Caitlin Keam, VP Manufacturing and Sustainability Applications, at IFS.
"As asset intensive industries move beyond static carbon reporting toward operational decarbonization, buyers are gravitating toward vendors with strong data and operational foundations - particularly those that can handle asset level complexity, connect emissions data to energy consumption and efficiency analysis, and integrate sustainability insights into day to day operational and investment decision making," said Alessandra Leggieri, Senior Analyst, Net Zero & Energy Transition at Verdantix.
