Welcome to the onboarding manual for our data collection tool, which allows you to collect all necessary data to accurately calculate your company's and product portfolio's environmental and carbon impact.
This article will guide you through how the product details page works — the page you land on when you open a single product from the Products overview.
What is this chapter about?
This chapter captures specific data about your products, such as the relation with other products, the Bill of Materials (BOM), packaging allocation, the usage and end-of-life (if applicable), and the ability to model any variations of the current BOM.
Each product opens with its ID and name at the top (for example, 100008 – T-shirt 9), followed by a row of general details, a completeness status, and a set of tabs.
If you do not have primary data for a product, you can streamline data collection by linking it to a similar product as a proxy. See the Add proxy section below.
Why do we need this information?
Completing each product gives you a full, traceable picture of where a product's impact comes from. The general details enable grouping and proxy scaling, the Bill of Materials drives the material impact, and the usage and end-of-life data extend the assessment across the product's whole life cycle. You can always keep track of what is missing by going to the product overview page.
Product's page
Below the title, you'll find the product's key attributes. A dash (-) means the field is empty.
Category — The type, tag, group, or brand the product belongs to (e.g., T-shirt, Hoodie, Pants, Jeans, Mug, Keyboard, etc.)
BOM mass — The total mass derived from the product's composition.
Added mass — A weight adjustment that applies when the product is linked to another as a proxy. It is expressed as a multiplier and scales the source Bill of Materials to this product's weight. It also enables the measurement of impact related to facilities and transport.
Packaging — The number of Packaging IDs allocated to the product.
On the right of the header you'll see:
Year selector — Switch the reporting year you are viewing (for example, 2024).
Total impact — The product's total carbon impact for the selected year, shown next to the cloud icon (for example, 6.92 kg).
Status — Whether the product's data is Complete or Incomplete.
Explanation of the tabs
The product's data is organised into five tabs. Each tab shows its own completeness indicator.
Relations
The Relations tab shows how this product connects to other products and to your orders.
Products — Lists the proxy relationships for this product and gives you two actions:
Add proxy — Select a similar product whose Bill of Materials this product should reuse, then provide any weight adjustment needed for an accurate calculation.
Use as source — Make this product the source whose Bill of Materials is reused by other products.
When a product has a relation, it appears under the Relation tab as either a proxy or a source for one or more products, along with the weight multiplier set by the proxy's Added mass feature, scaling its impact.
Orders — Shows the order volumes tied to this product, broken down by year into Purchased and Sold quantities. This is where the sales and purchase volumes that drive the product's total impact come from.
Bill of materials
The Bill of Materials tab captures the materials (and components, if applicable) that make up the product.
You have several ways to add a Bill of Materials:
Upload — Upload a file containing the product's materials.
Create — Build the Bill of Materials manually inside the platform.
Template — Download the template so you can fill it in or export a matching file from your own systems.
Documentation — Open the supporting documentation for this section.
For more information about Bill of Materials, see our deep dive articles for:
We offer two formats to match product complexity: a simpler upload for straightforward products that are easy to assess, and a more detailed one for products with several components that need thorough analysis.
Usage
The Usage tab captures the electricity and consumables a product uses over its lifespan.
Lifespan (optional) — The expected life of the product, in months.
Electricity used — Toggle Yes if the product consumes electricity in use, then enter the Total consumed over lifespan (in kWh). This is the average amount of electricity used over the product's full lifespan.
Consumables used — Toggle Yes if the product requires consumables in use (for example, detergent). Add each consumable with its amount and unit. Calculate the average amount used over the product's lifespan and specify it together with an impact reference and end-of-life impact.
These will be reflected in the usage overview.
End-of-life
The End-of-life (EoL) tab describes how the product is treated once it is no longer in use — whether it is disposed of, recycled, reused, etc.
These will be reflected in the EoL overview.
Scenarios
The Scenarios tab lets you model alternative Bills of Materials and discover the most effective reduction strategies for the product, where you can manage your scenarios and compare them against the current BOM.
FAQ
What is a Packaging ID, and how do I use this functionality?
One or more Packaging ID's can be added to one or multiple products in the Product overview page. When a Packaging ID has been added there, a list of unique Packaging ID's will appear in the Packaging ID chapter. A Bill of Materials for each specific Packaging ID can then be added. See the Product Packaging article for more information. More than one Packaging ID can be added, separated by commas.
Why is there BOM mass and Mass?
BOM mass is derived from the total weight of the product's composition. "Added mass," by contrast, applies when a product is linked to another as a proxy and needs a weight adjustment. This adjustment is expressed as a multiplier shown on each product's page.
What is a proxy and how do I use this functionality?
A proxy is when you use the same Bill of Materials (BOM) for similar products. For example, a T-shirt in different colours or sizes would be a proxy.
To use the proxy functionality, click the ‘Add Proxy’ button. Then, select the products for which you would like to use a proxy BOM, specify the product whose BOM you want to use as the proxy, and provide any necessary information about the weight to ensure accurate LCA calculations. Once you’ve filled in the details, click ‘Add Proxy’ to complete the process.
What is a category and what can I do with it?
You can assign any tag, group or brand or product category to your products. This let's you filter on a category and apply a bulk action on them e.g. create a proxy.
Once you have setup your categories you can view the total impact per category and filter your products on category in the product dashboard.