How Vontier Automated Data Across 5 Continents

Vontier Corporation is a global industrial technology company with operations spanning five continents. Managing utility data across such a dispersed footprint — with different languages, currencies, utility providers, and billing formats in each region — presented an enormous challenge for the sustainability team. Nancy Summe and Nate Streed, who lead Vontier's environmental reporting efforts, knew that manual data collection could not scale to meet the company's ambitious emissions reduction goals.

The global data challenge

Before implementing Nectar, Vontier's sustainability team relied on regional facility managers to collect and submit utility data manually. This created a cascade of problems: inconsistent data formats, language barriers with non-English bills, delayed submissions from sites in different time zones, and frequent gaps where bills were simply missed. Consolidating this data into a single, accurate picture of the company's global energy consumption and emissions was a quarterly ordeal that consumed weeks of effort and still left the team uncertain about data completeness.

Implementing Nectar across 20+ locations

Vontier partnered with Nectar to automate utility data collection across more than 20 major locations worldwide. Nectar integrated directly with utility providers in each region, set up automated e-bill forwarding where portal access was not available, and began ingesting electricity, natural gas, water, and waste data automatically. The platform's ability to handle international billing formats — including non-English documents and diverse rate structures — was critical to making the global rollout successful without requiring local teams to change their workflows.

Results: 40% emissions reduction and audit-ready data

With automated data collection in place, Vontier has achieved a 40% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions since 2020 — a milestone made possible in part by having reliable, timely data to measure progress against. The sustainability team now has continuous visibility into energy consumption across all sites, enabling them to identify reduction opportunities, track the impact of efficiency projects, and report emissions with confidence. The data is auditable and complete, eliminating the uncertainty that previously plagued their reporting process.

For a global enterprise like Vontier, the lesson is clear: you cannot manage what you cannot measure, and you cannot measure accurately at scale without automation. Nectar provided the infrastructure to turn fragmented, manual data collection into a streamlined global operation — freeing the sustainability team to focus on the strategic work of actually reducing emissions. As we explore in carbon accounting requires accurate utility data, even small errors in data collection compound into significant reporting inaccuracies.