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 Bill of Materials overview page works — the page that lists all products that need a Bill of Materials (BOM) and lets you upload that data in bulk.
What is this page about?
The Bill of materials overview gives you a single view of every product that needs a Bill of Materials and shows, at a glance, how complete your BOM data is across your portfolio. It is the central place to upload all your BOM data in bulk, rather than entering it product by product.
From here you can see which products still need work, download the right template, upload your data, and export what is already in the platform.
Why do we need this information?
The Bill of Materials drives the material impact of each product. Collecting it in one place lets you track overall progress, prioritise the products that are still incomplete, and upload data for many products in a single step — which is far faster than completing each product individually on its details page.
Tracking the status of your BOMs
At the top of the page you'll find a summary of the overall status of your products' BOMs for the selected view:
Total — The number of products that need a Bill of Materials.
Complete — The number of products whose BOM data is complete.
Incomplete — The number of products whose BOM data is still missing or incomplete.
You can refine the view with the controls above the table:
Year — The reporting year you are viewing (for example,
2024).Year unrelated — Toggle this on to include products that are not related to the selected year.
Products that are proxies are hidden from this page, since their BOMs are related to another product that appears as the source. In case any product is wrongly hidden, this means that the added source must be removed from it.
Explanation of columns
ID — Unique identifier for the product. You can sort, search, and bulk-delete from this column.
Product — Name of the product.
Category — The product's category.
Relation — Whether the product is using primary data or acting in a proxy relationship. A Source tag means the product's Bill of Materials is being reused by other products as a proxy.
Status — Whether the product's BOM data is Complete or Incomplete.
Simple and advanced formats
We offer two formats to match product complexity, and there are correspondingly two ways to handle the data: a simple BOM file for straightforward products that are easy to assess, and an advanced BOM file for products with several components that need thorough analysis.
Which template you use — and how your data is structured — depends on the format selected in your settings.
For full details on each format, see our deep dive articles:
The basic flow is:
Download the template.
Fill in the template, or export a file from your systems that includes the requested columns shown in the template.
Upload your file using the Upload button, then check the status of each product before confirming.
FAQ
What does the "Source" tag in the Relation column mean?
A product marked as Source has a Bill of Materials that is reused by one or more other products as a proxy. The source BOM is scaled to each proxy's mass to calculate its impact. For more on proxies, see the Product details article.
Why are some products incomplete?
A product is Incomplete when its Bill of Materials is missing or only partially filled in. Use the status summary and the Status column to find these products and prioritise them. You can complete them in bulk here, or individually on each product's details page.
Which template should I use — simple or advanced?