IEAT World Bank UNEP: What Data Should the Company Prepare First?

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Start with master data covering companies, sites, materials or by-products, quality specifications, supply-demand capacity, units, transport conditions and evidence versions. Every field needs a unique code, effective date, owner and retirement rule so the same object does not acquire conflicting versions across departments.

Then capture business events across generation, inspection, available-quantity confirmation, demand match, transfer, receipt, use, settlement and exception handling. Each event should retain time, quantity, unit, location, status and upstream document number so analysis can return to the underlying action.

Assign data accountability: operations defines meaning, finance confirms measurement and accounting treatment, and IT manages interfaces and access. Apply required-field, format, duplicate and cross-table consistency checks as continuing controls.

Before a pilot, sample one complete operating cycle and measure missing, duplicate, late-entry and unlinked-record rates. If records cannot be tied to a document or accountable owner, repair capture before building dashboards or AI use cases.

Before implementation, business, finance, IT and local owners should confirm definitions and review current contracts, authority requirements and real operating boundaries. The source supports only the stated public context; it does not establish an undisclosed budget, vendor choice or implementation result.