Product Impact Calculator: General Overview – Worldly Training & Support

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Navigating the Product Impact Calculator
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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.

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.

Dashboard

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.

Product Library

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.

Purchases

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.