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Navigating the Product Impact Calculator
- Select Product Impacts, followed by Product Impact Calculator from the top navigation bar
- This leads you to the Dashboard, a page that consolidates carbon emission data through clear visualizations and analysis tools.
- If it’s your first time using the Product Impact Calculator, you’ll begin by inputting the start date of your organization’s reporting period.
Saving this date will also automatically set the end date of your reporting period. Entering in reporting periods affects the dashboard by setting the visuals to the correct interval.- For example, if your start date is January 1, the platform will automatically set the end date to December 31.
- For example, if your start date is January 1, the platform will automatically set the end date to December 31.
- After clicking Next, this is where you enter unowned assets that are not operationally controlled by your organization. Any of the percentages inputted into these fields will be applied to the organization’s overall scope 3 emissions.
- These product distribution percentages are related to Upstream Transportation, Downstream Transportation, and Distribution Center & Retail Energy.
- To input percentages on this window:
- Estimate the percentage of assets they own under each category and subtract from 100%.
- Enter this value into each respective field.
The Dashboard is where you can look for insights into Scope 3 emissions at various stages, identify high-impact areas, and track progress against any emission reduction targets.
The first three cards on the dashboard highlight important emissions metrics to your brand:
- Total Emissions: Total CO2e emissions for all added products in the selected reporting period
- Highest Impact Product: The single product contributing the most emissions overall
- Highest Impact Category: The single category contributing the most emissions overall
Next, the Product Impacts by Stage bar chart shows the breakdown of emissions by life cycle stage for all of the brand’s products and enables brands to target specific stages for impact reduction.
Let’s use the t-shirt example to review each section of this chart from left to right.
- The Materials for this example is cotton fabric.
- The Components for this example is a heat logo transfer
- The Final Assembly for this example includes the organization’s most recent Higg FEM linked to the t-shirt’s purchase order. This is assigned to the t-shirt within the product impact calculator.
- The Packaging for this example includes a small paper shopping bag.
- The Upstream Transportation for this example includes 1,000 kilometers of transportation via airplane.
- The Downstream Transportation for this example includes 1,000 kilometers of transportation via truck.
- The Distribution for this example includes 0.065 kWh of nonrenewable electricity, 0.215 kWh of natural gas, and 0.3 liters of water usage.
- The Retail for this example includes 0.75 kWh of nonrenewable electricity, 0 kWh of natural gas, and 2.65 liters of water usage.
- The Use of Sold Products for this example includes 2.3 Wearings per Wash and 17.8 Washings per Lifetime of the t-shirt.
- The End of Life for this example includes going to the landfill.
It’s important to note the Use of Sold Products and End of Life treatment of sold products are fixed and cannot be edited.
Next, these three cards on the dashboard focus on product metrics to your brand:
- Total Products: The number of products that have been added to the system
- Total Customized Products: The number of products that have been customized in terms of materials, weight, components, or packaging
- Products with FEM Linked: The number of products where direct emissions data is available through FEM Module linking
Finally, these two Top 5 lists in the dashboard show:
- Top 5 Products: A ranked list of the top 5 products with the highest emissions.
- Top 5 Categories: A ranked list of the top 5 categories with the highest emissions.
The Impact kgCO2e column underlined in red highlights the highest impact product or category and pinpoints emission hotspots in your supply chain. The % of Total column underlined in red shows how large of a share belongs to a certain product or category.
The Product Library displays a list of product models added to the platform that allows brands to review, compare, edit, duplicate, or delete products. They can also add products to purchase orders here as well.
NOTE:
You must first create a product in order to attach multiple purchase orders to the product.
This table focuses on the physical parts that comprise a product, including the Materials, Components, and Packaging.
- Select the Ellipses to download an Account audit log CSV. This file provides a change log of all edits made to any products.
It shows you:- Which product was edited
- When the edits were made
- Who made the changes
- Which fields were edited
- What the old and new values are
- What the outcome was (created successfully, the name of the new product, etc.)
- Download data for a single product or a large batch of select products. This enables you to download a customized csv file of your product library to ensure your purchased goods inventory accurately reflects all updates to your product entities.
- Check the Missing Info tick box to quickly identify and address missing Purchase Order data in your product library. This makes it easier to maintain high-quality, actionable inventory of your Purchased Goods.
- Search the Product Library by typing into the search bar. For example, you can search t-shirts to show all of your t-shirts in the product library.
- Sort the Product Library by clicking the arrows next to the column. For example, you can sort the Modified column for most recently modified products. You can also show or hide columns within the table.
- Group the Product Library by dragging a column header to the top of the table. For example, if your products fall under many different categories, this can help you organize your inventory more efficiently.
- Toggle between Compact and Normal views by selecting the toggle at the upper right corner of the table. You can change your view depending on your viewing preferences.
- You can also save a view by selecting Save Columns and giving a name to your view. Saving a view makes it easier to access an already customized table specific to your organization.
The Purchases page is where you can view purchased goods and delete purchase orders. This page provides an interactive data table that gives brands the ability to identify hotspots such as highest emitting products and categories.
This table focuses on high levels of interaction and customization, such as finding records that fit a specific criteria, comparing data, and taking action on multiple records.
- Select the Download button to download impact reports
- The Purchase Order Impacts CSV - Provides specific details on the purchase order impacts by Scope 3 category.
- The Materials, Components, Packaging Impacts CSV - Provides specific metrics into Scope 3 Category 1 reporting impacts by individual materials, components, packaging, and Tier 1 Assembly impacts.
- Search the Purchases page by typing into the search bar. For example, you can search for jeans to show all of your jeans on the purchases page.
- Sort the Purchases page by clicking the arrows next to the column. For example, you can sort the PO Date column for the purchase order date. You can also show or hide columns within the table.
- Group the Purchases page by dragging a column header to the top of the table. For example, if your products were purchased in several different companies, grouping by the Country header can help organize your inventory more efficiently. The grouping feature also aggregates the Quantity and Total Impacts as indicated by the Sum total in each column.
- Toggle between Compact and Normal views by selecting the toggle at the upper right corner of the table. You can change your view depending on your viewing preferences.
- You can also save a view by selecting Save Columns and giving a name to your view. Saving a view makes it easier to access an already customized table specific to your organization.
Purchase Orders Impacts Field Descriptions
- Account ID - Brand Account ID
- Product ID - Worldly Generated ID for the product
- Product Name - Name of the product
- Type - Type of product--Apparel or Other
- Category - Product category -- this determines default product weight, materials, components
- Product Weight (kg) - Weight of the product
- Total Weight - Multiplies product weight by quantity purchased.
- Data Source - Where the product impact information was sourced. Example: if product footprint was created in Product Module, this column would indicate PM as the source
- Tags - User-assigned tags to help query the report
- Created by - User who created the product in PIC
- Created On - Date the product was created in PIC
- Modified by - User who last modified the product
- Modified On - Date the product was last modified
- ID Type - Type identifier - Options: EAN, GTIN, SKU, Other
- ID - User supplied product identifier
- PO # - Purchase Order number
- PO Date - Purchase Order number
- Quantity - Quantity purchased
- Tier 1 Supplier - FEM assessment ID
- FEM Status - Status of the FEM assessment
- Materials Impacts (kg CO2 eq) - Category 1: Purchased Goods and Services includes all upstream impacts from the bill of materials, packaging, components, and final assembly. This covers Tier 4 through Tier 1.
- Components Impacts (kg CO2 eq) - Category 1: Purchased Goods and Services includes all upstream impacts from the bill of materials, packaging, components, and final assembly. This covers Tier 4 through Tier 1.
- Final Assembly Impacts (kgCO2 eq) - Category 1: Purchased Goods and Services includes all upstream impacts from the bill of materials, packaging, components, and final assembly. This covers Tier 4 through Tier 1.
- Packaging Impacts (kg CO2 eq) - Category 1: Purchased Goods and Services includes all upstream impacts from the bill of materials, packaging, components, and final assembly. This covers Tier 4 through Tier 1.
- Upstream Transportation and Distribution (kg CO2 eq) - Category 4: Upstream Transportation and Distribution (kgCO2eq) or upstream logistics incorporate the distance a product travels from the final assembly (gate) to the distribution center.
- Downstream transportation (kg CO2 eq) - Category 9: Downstream Transport and Distribution focuses on the transportation and distribution of products once they leave your company. This includes: (1) emissions from transporting products from distribution centers to retail stores or directly to customers; (2) emissions from the distribution of goods like warehousing and storage at 3r party logistic providers.
- Distribution Center (kg CO2 eq) - Category 9: Downstream Transport and Distribution focuses on the transportation and distribution of products once they leave your company. This includes: (1) emissions from transporting products from distribution centers to retail stores or directly to customers; (2) emissions from the distribution of goods like warehousing and storage at 3r party logistic providers.
- Retail (kg CO2 eq) - Category 9: Downstream Transport and Distribution focuses on the transportation and distribution of products once they leave your company. This includes: (1) emissions from transporting products from distribution centers to retail stores or directly to customers; (2) emissions from the distribution of goods like warehousing and storage at 3r party logistic providers.
- Use of sold products (kg CO2 eq) - Category 11: Use of sold products includes the total emissions that are expected to occur while using the products a company sells over their entire lifetime. It’s about the emissions generated when customers use the products the company sells throughout its life.
- End-of-life treatment of sold products (kg CO2 eq) - Category 12: End-of-life treatment of sold products includes the total emissions from the disposal or treatment of all the products sold by the company in a given year, such as the emissions from landfilling, incineration, or recycling.
- Impact/unit - Impact per product
- TOTAL IMPACT - Total impact for the purchase order
- Duplicate - This column will flag any Purchase Order that might be a duplicate, based on PO number, PO date and quantity purchased
Materials, Components, Packaging Impacts Field Descriptions
- Product Name - Name of the product
- Product Type - Type of product -- Apparel or Other
- Category - Product category -- this determines default product weight, materials, components
- Product ID - Worldly Generated ID for the product
- Quantity - Quantity purchased
- PO Date - Purchase Order date
- PO # - Purchase Order number
- Name - Name of the product constituent (Material/Component/Packaging/Final Assembler)
- Type - Constituent Type (material, component, packaging, final assembly)
- ID - Example: fem assessment id
- Code - Code of the entity
- Data Source - Year of FEM module, or indicates whether material was linked from MSI
- Material Net Use % - Refers to cutting efficiency
- Material BOM % - Percentage of material if yarn is a blend
- Weight/Product (kg) - Material weight per product
- Total Weight (kg) - Total weight of the material per PO
- Units/Product - How many units per product (eg, buttons)
- Total Units - Total units for PO
- Impact/Product (kg Co2e) - Per Product impact of the Material/Component/Packaging/Final Assembly
- Total Impact (kg Co2e) - Total impact of the Material/Component/Packaging/Final Assembly for the PO
- Description - Explanation of the default assumptions that were made for production stages
Searching
Use the search bar to search the Product Name, Category, Supplier, and Country columns.
Sorting
Use the arrows next to a column header to sort the table.
Grouping
Drag a column header to the top of the table to group the table.
Saved Views
Select Save Columns to name and save the “view” or the specific formatting of your table.
Hide/Unhide Columns
Select Hidden Columns to hide/unhide columns within the table.