ESG & Impact Assessment Platform

About the ESG & Impact Assessment Platform

Mission

Enable Dis-Chem Pharmacies to establish itself as South Africa's pharmaceutical retail sustainability leader through accurate emissions tracking, regulatory compliance, and transparent ESG reporting aligned with JSE requirements.

System Capabilities

  • Pharmaceutical retail tracking: Refrigerant leakage, electricity, fleet emissions, cold chain transport
  • Regulatory compliance: JSE Sustainability Disclosure, Carbon Tax Act, ISO 14064, King IV, CIPC XBRL
  • Multi-framework reporting: GRI, SASB, TCFD, ISSB, CDP with automated report generation
  • AI integration: Ollama LLM for invoice extraction, predictive forecasting, natural language queries
  • Interactive dashboards: Plotly visualizations across 333 locations with store comparisons
  • Science-Based Targets: SBTi-validated decarbonization pathways for retail and healthcare sectors

Technical Stack

  • Backend: Flask (Python 3.11+) with pharmacy-specific calculation engines
  • Database: PostgreSQL 15 + TimescaleDB for time-series emissions data
  • AI: Ollama (192.168.0.98:11434) - Mistral 7B for local inference
  • Visualization: Plotly for interactive dashboards and reporting
  • Containerization: Docker & Kubernetes for production scalability

Dis-Chem Pharmacies Operations

  • JSE-listed company with R39.2 billion annual revenue
  • 20,562 employees serving 10.3 million loyalty members
  • 285 retail pharmacies across 9 South African provinces + Namibia + Botswana
  • 45 Baby City stores and 249 wellness clinics
  • 5 distribution centers including new 63,000 sqm Midrand facility
  • 260-vehicle delivery fleet for prescriptions and store restocking
  • 240 The Local Choice franchise stores (Scope 3 Category 14)