Information providing device, information providing method, and program

Abstract

To provide an information providing device capable of providing multifaceted information related to reduction of a greenhouse gas emission amount, an information providing method, and a program.SOLUTION: An information providing device provides information on a supply chain composed of a plurality of companies. The information providing device includes a creation unit, an extraction unit, and an information providing unit. The creation unit creates a demand / supply model that specifies a relation between the plurality of companies in the supply chain. The extraction unit includes an emission amount calculation unit that calculates a greenhouse gas emission amount of Scope3 for each of the plurality of companies based on the model data, and extracts information on a plurality of layers in the demand-supply model. The information providing unit provides the extracted information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] An embodiment of the present invention relates to an information providing device, an information providing method, and a program. [Background technology]

[0002] Previously, inventions of methods for defining the carbon footprint of a product have been disclosed. The previous technology was limited to simply tracking greenhouse gas emissions based on Scope 3, and in some cases was unable to provide information on other related layers (aspects). For this reason, the previous technology was unable to provide multifaceted information related to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0003] [Patent Document 1] International Publication No. 2022 / 073935 Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0004] An object of the present invention is to provide an information providing device, an information providing method, and a program capable of providing multifaceted information related to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. [Means for solving the problem]

[0005] An information providing device according to an embodiment provides information relating to a supply chain made up of a plurality of businesses. The information providing device has a creation unit, an extraction unit, and an information providing unit. The creation unit creates a demand / supply model that defines the relationships between the plurality of businesses in the supply chain. The extraction unit includes an emission calculation unit that calculates Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions for each of the plurality of businesses based on the model data, and extracts information relating to the plurality of layers in the demand / supply model. The information providing unit provides the extracted information. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0006] [Figure 1] 1 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration and usage environment of an information providing device 1. [Diagram 2] Conceptual diagram of supply chain model data 82. [Diagram 3] FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of an income / expense model 82C. [Figure 4] FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the calculation contents of a scope-specific emission calculation unit 50. [Diagram 5] FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the content of an image provided by an information providing unit 60. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0007] An information providing device, an information providing method, and a program according to an embodiment will be described below with reference to the drawings.

[0008] FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration and usage environment of an information providing device 1. The information providing device 1 includes, for example, a communication unit 10, a data linking unit 20, a model creation / change unit 30, a scope-specific emission calculation unit 40, a layer-specific information extraction unit 50, an information providing unit 60, and a storage unit 80. Data such as supply chain model data 82 is stored in the storage unit 80. The components other than the communication unit 10 and the storage unit 80 are realized by, for example, a hardware processor such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit) executing a program (software). Some or all of these components may be realized by hardware (including circuitry) such as an LSI (Large Scale Integration), an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), an FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array), or a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), or may be realized by cooperation between software and hardware. The program may be stored in advance in a storage device (a storage device having a non-transient storage medium) such as a hard disk drive (HDD) or flash memory, or may be stored in a removable storage medium (non-transient storage medium) such as a DVD or CD-ROM, and installed by inserting the storage medium into a drive device. The storage unit 80 is a HDD, flash memory, RAM (Random Access Memory), etc.

[0009] Note that the business entity that owns the hardware of the information providing device 1 does not have to be the same as the business entity that executes the programs, etc. For example, the information providing device 1 may be operated by installing the programs, etc., on a rental server provided as a cloud service by a business entity other than the provider of the rental server.

[0010] The communication unit 10 communicates with the terminal device 200 and the information providing device 300 via the network NW. The communication unit 10 is, for example, a network card. The terminal device 200 displays the information provided by the information providing device 1 on a display unit. The information providing device 300 provides the information providing device 1 with information that is the source of the information provided by the information providing device 1 (such as information indicating the manufacturing process, demand, and supply for each business operator).

[0011] The data linking unit 20 processes the information provided by the information source device 300 so that it becomes the source information of the supply chain model data 82 , or maps it as a parameter of the supply chain model data 82 .

[0012] The model creation / modification unit 30 creates or modifies (edits) the supply chain model data 82 based on the information processed by the data linking unit 20 .

[0013] FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of supply chain model data 82. The supply chain model data 82 is data showing the relationship between multiple businesses involved in manufacturing a certain product. For example, the supply chain model data 82 is a data in which information 82B on multiple layers is associated with a base demand / supply model 82A. The demand / supply model 82A and the information 82B on the multiple layers are associated with each other by identification information of a common business. The multiple layers include at least energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and costs. The supply chain model data 82 may include other layers. In FIG. 2, business operator A is a business operator performing the most upstream process, and business operator E is a business operator performing the final process.

[0014] The symbol of each business operator in the demand / supply model 82A includes a balance model 82C that specifies the balance of materials and energy. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of the balance model 82C. The balance model 82A is a model that is specified to output the number of intermediate products or final products to be manufactured (demand) by arbitrarily changing the allocation of, for example, primary energy, gas, and electricity (supply) supplied. The model creation / change unit 30 determines the state of the business operator that satisfies the required demand, for example, by using the demand as an input value and determining the supply and intermediate allocation using a solver or the like.

[0015] The layer-by-layer information extraction unit 40 extracts information for each layer from the demand / supply model 82A and maps it to information for each layer 82B in the supply chain model data 82. In particular, for the greenhouse gas emission layer, the emission amount calculation unit for each scope 50 calculates the greenhouse gas emission amount of Scope 3 for each of the multiple businesses. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the calculation contents of the emission amount calculation unit for each scope 50. In the figure, S1 is Scope 1, S2 is Scope 2, S3 is Scope 3, and C* (* is a number) is the greenhouse gas emission amount for each process used by the business. The emission amount calculation unit for each scope 50 calculates the greenhouse gas emission amount for each business by multiply counting the greenhouse gas emission amount on the upstream side up to the most downstream side and the greenhouse gas emission amount on the downstream side up to the upstream side.

[0016] For the other layers, the layer-by-layer information extraction unit 40 extracts information for each layer from the demand / supply model 82A based on a correspondence relationship between a predetermined change in the process and a change in the information for each layer.

[0017] The information providing unit 60 has, for example, a function of a web server. The information providing unit 60 provides the terminal device 200 with information (for example, an image) based on the information for each layer extracted by the layer-by-layer information extracting unit 40. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the content of an image provided by the information providing unit 60. A user who visually checks this can understand which process of business operator A or business operator C should be adjusted to achieve greater cost-effectiveness by focusing on, for example, attention point 1. In addition, by focusing on attention point 2, the user can understand the impact on greenhouse gas emissions and costs of the product as a whole to the final consumer. In this way, the information providing device 1 can provide multifaceted information related to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

[0018] According to at least one of the embodiments described above, the system includes a creation unit (30) that creates a demand / supply model that defines the relationships between multiple businesses in a supply chain, and an emission calculation unit (50) that calculates Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions for each of multiple businesses based on the demand / supply model, and has an extraction unit (40) that extracts information on multiple layers in the demand / supply model, and an information provision unit (60) that provides the extracted information, making it possible to provide multifaceted information related to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

[0019] Although some embodiments of the present invention have been described, these embodiments are presented as examples and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, substitutions, and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. These embodiments and their modifications are included in the scope of the invention and its equivalents described in the claims, as well as in the scope and spirit of the invention. [Explanation of symbols]

[0020] 1 Information provision device 10. Communications Department 20 Data Linkage Department 30 Model Creation / Modification Section 40 Scope-specific emission calculation section 50 Layer-by-layer information extraction section 60 Information provision department 80 Storage section

Claims

1. An information providing device for providing information about a supply chain made up of a plurality of businesses, a creation unit that creates a demand / supply model that defines a relationship between the plurality of businesses in the supply chain; an emission calculation unit that calculates greenhouse gas emissions of Scope 3 for each of the plurality of businesses based on the demand / supply model, and an extraction unit that extracts information about the plurality of layers in the demand / supply model; an information providing unit that provides the extracted information; An information providing device comprising:

2. An information providing device that provides information about a supply chain composed of multiple businesses, creating a demand / supply model defining relationships among the plurality of businesses in the supply chain; Calculating greenhouse gas emissions for Scope 3 for each of the plurality of businesses based on the demand / supply model; Extracting information about the layers in the supply / demand model; providing said extracted information; Information provision method.

3. An information providing device that provides information about a supply chain made up of multiple businesses is provided to a processor. creating a demand / supply model that defines relationships between the plurality of businesses in the supply chain; A process of calculating greenhouse gas emissions in Scope 3 for each of the plurality of businesses based on the demand / supply model; extracting information about the layers of the demand / supply model; providing the extracted information; A program for executing the above.

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