One product, one footprint, from materials to the gate or end of life
MeetCarbon Cloud product carbon footprint files each product by functional unit, sets the system boundary and life-cycle stages, collects activity data, matches emission factors, and calculates carbon-dioxide equivalent by stage. Hotspots, scenarios, the report, the carbon label and the digital product passport follow the same project. When you need it, submit for verification and lock the version.
- One file
- Functional unit and project versions
- ISO 14067
- Primary accounting standard
- Suppliers
- Upstream requests and review
- Lockable
- Publish after verification
- Aluminium profile A · supplier data submittedReview
- Battery pack B · factor coverage 86%Match
- Export casting C · report waiting to lockPublish
From a product file to a result you can publish
Four steps match the screens already in the product. Once the purpose is set, boundary, inventory, factors and the report stay on the same project.
- 01
File
Name the product, the functional unit and why you are calculating: a customer, an export, a passport, or an internal lever.
Product file · Project - 02
Collect
Gather materials, energy and transport by stage. Manual lines, a spreadsheet, a BOM or a supplier submission land in one inventory.
Boundary · Activity data - 03
Calculate
Match a factor to each activity. After the pre-check, roll the result up to carbon-dioxide equivalent by stage and keep data quality.
Factors · Calculation - 04
Publish
Read hotspots and scenarios, generate the report and label, then verify, lock and release when you need to.
Hotspots · Report · Verification
What you see in product carbon footprint
The menu groups modelling, collaboration, disclosure and quality. These match the screens and project tabs already in place. Open any item to see the work it does.
Workspace
Model and calculateSee product files, projects in progress, supplier requests waiting for review and items awaiting verification, and start a new project from here.
- Files, projects, requests and verification on one screen
- Recent projects open directly
- To-do items point at missing data, unmatched factors and unpublished reports
Counts, coverage and kilograms in the sample windows only show how the screen is organised.
Pick the standard, then the question this calculation answers
The standard decides how cut-off and allocation are written. The purpose decides whether the boundary stops at the factory gate or includes use and end of life. These are the settings the product can already hold.
The general product carbon-footprint standard, and the one adapted first.
- Boundary
- Cradle-to-gate or cradle-to-grave, following the study goal.
- Cut-off
- Mass, energy or environmental significance is advised under 1%, and explained in the report.
- Allocation
- Avoid allocation first, then physical, then economic.
- In the product
- A new project can select this standard. Cut-off and allocation sit on the boundary tab.
From materials to the factory gate, without use and end of life.
The standard text is the published edition. This page only describes how the product stores boundary, cut-off and allocation.
Move each stage’s share and see where the footprint sits
A sample product shows stage contribution. Drag the shares and the total is split again by your ratio. A live project uses the figure calculated from its inventory and factors.
8.6 kg is a sample total for this page. A cradle-to-gate project usually leaves use and end of life out of the external result.
Analysts collect, suppliers submit, verifiers read the file before lock
The lead sets the purpose and whether to publish. A supplier only handles requests sent to them.
Can this version go to a customer or a verifier?
- Product file and project purpose
- Whether the report, label and passport are complete
- Verification comments and lock status
The inventory can be typed, or expanded from a BOM and from upstream
Every activity row has to match a stage and a unit. Whether an enterprise system is connected depends on the source configured for that project.
- Organisation-boundary greenhouse-gas inventory and verification files live in GHG inventory. Product footprint uses activity data on the product stages.
- Allowance and voluntary-reduction trading and compliance live in carbon assets.
- Building water footprint, acidification and the rest of a full environmental profile, plus quantities and green-building ratings, live in building LCA.
The same activity data can be cited by an ESG indicator. The calculation still follows this project’s boundary.
Set the functional unit and the boundary before collecting the inventory
Do the first product in this order. If factors are still missing, coverage stays incomplete. You can still create the file and the stages.
- 1Product name, specification and functional unit
- 2Whether this is for a customer, an export, a passport or internal analysis
- 3The main material and energy list
- 4Suppliers who must submit upstream data
- 5The standard or product-category rules you intend to use
A library template can reuse a boundary. Swap in this product’s own activity data after reuse.
- 1
Create the file
Enter the product and the functional unit.
You getProduct file - 2
Open a project
Pick the purpose and the standard, and draft the boundary.
You getProject - 3
Set the boundary
Confirm stages, cut-off and allocation.
You getSystem boundary - 4
Collect the inventory
Manual lines, a spreadsheet, a BOM or a supplier request.
You getActivity data - 5
Match and calculate
Complete factors, pass the pre-check, read results by stage.
You getFootprint - 6
Report or verify
Issue the report and label, then submit and lock when required.
You getA version you can publish
A result traces back to the inventory row, and a published version can be locked
Product carbon footprint, inventory, the factor library, ESG and building LCA do different jobs. Cite across them when you need to. An organisation total is not written up as a product footprint.
Functional unit
The result is always divided by the unit on the file, so different specifications are not compared on the wrong denominator.
Project versions
One product can hold several versions. A published one is not overwritten by the next calculation.
Traceable factors
A match records the library, the version, and whether it was automatic or manual.
Data quality
Source, time, geography and technology stay on the inventory row.
Lock and publish
After verification, lock the version. The external report points at that edition.
Report and passport
The report, carbon label and digital product passport export from the same result.
How neighbouring products connect
Product carbon footprint owns stage accounting for one product. Organisation emissions, factor master data, disclosure indexes and building ratings each have their own product.
The same project, a different purpose changes the boundary
These four uses can already be chosen in the project wizard.
Settle the boundary first
How do product carbon footprint and a GHG inventory split the work?
Inventory accounts for an organisation’s greenhouse-gas emissions over a period. Product carbon footprint accounts for carbon-dioxide equivalent on the stages you selected, divided by the functional unit. Reports can cite both. Each calculation keeps its own boundary.
Is this the same product as building LCA?
Product carbon footprint covers products and services. Building LCA covers buildings and materials across construction and operation, and holds the building rating. The product side can prepare environmental product declaration data for that building work. The building rating stays in building LCA.
If I pick the export purpose, can I file a foreign declaration?
The export purpose opens the project on a factory-gate boundary and calculates embedded carbon at product level. The full declaration field pack for a destination still has to be completed against that year’s rules. The wizard does not replace the official form.
Can the kilograms on this page be cited?
No. Figures on the workspace and the stage bars are samples. External use takes the version calculated in the project, and locked after verification when that is required.
Is Monte Carlo a separate methodology?
It is the uncertainty tool inside a project, used to read an interval. The point estimate still comes from activity data, factors and global warming potential.
Can a supplier see someone else’s inventory?
A supplier handles data requests sent to them in the portal. After approval, the figures return to the matching inventory rows.
Start by fixing the boundary for one product
Tell us whether this is for a customer, factory-gate data, a passport, or an internal hotspot review. We will walk through the file, the inventory, the calculation and the report for that purpose.