Portfolio Hotspots & Improvement Analytics

Identify your biggest sustainability hotspots and make smarter product and portfolio decisions at scale. Turn complex product data into clear priorities and measurable action.

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What are Portfolio Hotspots & improvements? : Prioritize the sustainability actions that drive results

Most companies know they need to reduce impact but struggle to identify where to act first. FoodFacts helps you pinpoint the products, ingredients, suppliers, and categories that drive the largest environmental and health impacts, and turn that insight into actionable portfolio improvements. With our platform you can simulate the impact of product and sourcing choices.

You will be able to answer questions like:

  • Which products contribute most to our total footprint?
  • Where are the biggest emission and impact hotspots in our portfolio?
  • Which ingredients or suppliers are driving high impact?
  • What changes would have the biggest effect across our portfolio or assortment?

Analyze your business : From insight to prioritized action

For Food Retailers

  • Identify sustainability hotspots across products, categories, and suppliers to focus improvement efforts where they matter most.
  • Prioritize improvement opportunities across your assortment and private-label portfolio.
  • Benchmark and monitor portfolio performance across categories and suppliers, and track progress against climate and sustainability KPIs.
  • Measure the impact of assortment, sourcing, and other sustainability initiatives over time.
  • Give category, purchasing, private-label, and sustainability teams shared portfolio insights to support better decisions.
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For Food Producers

  • Identify sustainability hotspots across products, ingredients, packaging, and suppliers to focus improvement efforts where they matter most.
  • Prioritize products and development opportunities across climate, biodiversity, water, and nutrition.
  • Monitor portfolio sustainability performance and track the impact of improvement initiatives over time.
  • Focus supplier collaboration and sourcing decisions where they can have the greatest impact.
  • Give sustainability, procurement, and product development teams shared portfolio insights to support better decisions.
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FAQ : Frequently asked questions

What is a sustainability hotspot?

A sustainability hotspot is a product, ingredient, supplier, or category that contributes disproportionately to environmental or health impacts within a product portfolio. Identifying hotspots helps focus improvement efforts where they will have the greatest effect.

How do you identify high-impact products?

High-impact products are identified through product-level analysis across indicators such as carbon footprint, water risk, biodiversity impact, and nutrition. The results are presented in FoodFacts Hub as interactive insights across ingredient, product, category, brand, and assortment levels, helping users understand where impacts are concentrated and where improvements can have the greatest effect.

How do portfolio improvements work in practice?

Portfolio improvements are based on identifying hotspots and simulating changes at product or ingredient level. Users can test alternative ingredients, packaging or sourcing options, or formulations and immediately see the impact on key sustainability indicators.

Who is this tool specifically designed for?

The tool is designed for food producers and retailers that need product-level sustainability insights to support portfolio decisions, product development, sourcing, and sustainability strategies. For food producers, it supports teams such as Marketing, Category, Sustainability, and Product Development in identifying improvement opportunities and making data-driven decisions across their product portfolios. For retailers, it supports Purchasing and Private Label teams in evaluating products, comparing suppliers, and optimizing assortments based on sustainability performance.