Testimonials

'It's really useful because we can look at the information from all different angles and it's so easy to use,' says Ms Hamilton. 'It will help us rationalise and standardise our suppliers and products, which in turn means we can get better prices.'

Vicki Hamilton, The Head of Procurement and Supplies for the Outer South East London Shared Procurement
London Procurement Program

Latest News

  • 05/07/2010
    GreenInsight launch at Business biodiversity symposium
    @UK PLC are launching GreenInsight at the ‘Global Business of Biodiversity Symposium’, partnered by DEFRA and Department for Business Innovations and Skills on the 13th of July, will see the launch of the highly anticipated ‘The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity’ (TEEB) report.

e2Class

e2class stands for Ethical and Environmental Classification.

@UK PLC has created e2class as a next generation product database, to solve the common problems in procurement and build a comprehensive repository of ethical and environmental product data.

It builds upon NSV (National Supplies Vocabulary), the item level product classification used by the UK Government for over 30 years, with over 500,000 products that have standard descriptions and are mapped onto individual supplier products.

e2class is mapped onto all the major coding systems currently in use:-

  • NSV
  • eClass
  • UNSPSC
  • ProClass
  • CPV
  • SIC codes
  • DM+D
  • Nato Codes
  • and others

SpendInsight automatically classifies spend either to full e2class product codes or varying depth in the e2class hierarchy.  This allows appropriate carbon footprint and other information to either be looked up for the product were it already exists, or calculated from standard industry tables where it does not already exist.