IFS has launched IFS Zero, an agentic emissions operating system designed for asset-intensive industries managing carbon data across operations, assets, and supply chains.
The platform provides a unified calculation environment for Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions. It uses AI agents to map data sources, validate information, identify anomalies, and generate audit-ready outputs, replacing manual reconciliation across disconnected spreadsheets and operational systems.
IFS Zero works alongside the company’s Sustainability Management module, which acts as a wider reporting environment for sustainability data including emissions, social impact, and diversity metrics. While that module supports enterprise-level sustainability reporting, IFS Zero is built specifically for carbon management at the operational level.
Asset-intensive companies often hold emissions data across maintenance systems, fuel records, metering platforms, supplier files, enterprise resource planning, and operational technology environments. Pulling that information together after the event may satisfy a reporting cycle, but it leaves limited room for real-time intervention in energy use, maintenance planning, asset performance, and procurement decisions.
Caitlin Keam, VP Manufacturing and Sustainability Applications at IFS, said: “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.”
The company said IFS Zero can establish an audit-ready baseline in weeks, save hundreds of hours of operational time each year, and reduce data collection effort by 30%. It also said research from Generation Investment Management, an IFS investor, indicates that full adoption of IFS technology across the three largest industrial sectors it serves could help abate more than 2% of global CO₂ emissions.
Regulatory and investor scrutiny is pushing carbon accounting closer to the industrial systems where emissions are created. Reporting frameworks increasingly require companies to understand both direct emissions and value-chain emissions, while customers and investors are asking for data that can be traced, checked, and connected to business activity.
Alessandra Leggieri, Senior Analyst, Net Zero & Energy Transition at Verdantix, said: “As asset-intensive industries move beyond static carbon reporting toward operational decarbonisation, 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.”
IFS Zero launches alongside IFS Cloud 26R1, which becomes generally available on 28 May 2026. The wider release includes enhancements across enterprise resource planning, service management, enterprise asset management, and aviation maintenance, extending the company’s use of industrial AI across its product portfolio.
