L.SFP.1023 - Carbon Calculator & Environmental Credentials IT Platform Support
MLA has made platforms for environmental credentials and carbon calculators freely available to red meat producers.
| Project start date: | 24 March 2025 |
| Project end date: | 15 December 2026 |
| Publication date: | 06 August 2026 |
| Project status: | In progress |
| Livestock species: | Grass-fed Cattle |
| Relevant regions: | National |
Summary
Support costs for the Environmental Credentials Platform and MLA Carbon Calculator. This was used to provide technical support with:
- Issue Trouble Shooting
- Support Availability
- Health Checks
- Proactive updates/upgrades & recommendations (remediation capacity 12hrs/month)
- Knowledge Management
- Uplifted Documentation
- Produce backlog for grooming/prioritisation
- Monthly cadence meeting to track days used/plan workload ahead
Objectives
MLA’s Carbon Calculator & Environmental Credentials for Grassfed Beef platform requires ongoing technical and IT support to ensure the systems run effectively and are updated when required. This scope of work is for Cognizant to provide ongoing application support and maintenance of both platforms.
Key findings
IT support
Benefits to industry
Providing evidence of environmental and sustainability credentials to key stakeholders.
MLA action
Undertake scoping work to ensure relevance and value to Australian red meat producers
Future research
Undertake scoping work to ensure relevance and value to Australian red meat producers
More information
| Project manager: | Jacob Betros |
| Contact email: | reports@mla.com.au |

