A product is one of your own article numbers with its data, requirements and structure. Transactions, manufacturing lots and Product Carbon Footprints all refer to a product, so the registry is where most work in ChainTraced starts.
Where: Registry > Products, then Create new Product. A product has four tabs: Product data (this page), Specifications (Set up Product Requirements), Emission data (General Product Carbon Footprint manual) and Structure, described at the end.
Create a product
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Enter the Product number. It is the only required field and must be unique in your registry.
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Choose the product type: Manufactured for something you make, Purchased for something you buy. The type decides which sections appear, see below.
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Fill in what you use: Description, Marked (the marking on the product or its documentation), Drawing Number, and any custom fields your company has enabled. Edit Fields adds or removes custom fields on this product.
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Set the Unit and Weight per unit.
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Pick a Transaction template if the product's lot transactions should use one by default.
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Click Save, or Save and back to return to the list.
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Unit |
Weight per unit |
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kg |
None needed; one unit weighs one kilogram. |
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pc, m, l, lb, tonne |
Enter the weight of one unit in kilograms. It is used for weight-based calculations such as emissions per unit. |
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Manufactured product with a bill of material |
The weight is calculated from the bill of material and cannot be typed in; units that do not fit a calculated weight are disabled. |
What the product type decides
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Type |
Extra section |
Used for |
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Manufactured |
Bill of Material |
The products this one is made from. Drives the weight, the default incoming lots on a manufacturing lot, and upstream emissions. |
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Purchased |
Product suppliers, and Emission Category with the PCF module |
Who you buy it from and in what share. Used to collect and allocate supplier PCFs. |
Bill of Material (manufactured products)
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Under Bill of Material, click Add item and pick the product that goes in.
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Enter the Quantity used for one unit of this product: the gross weight of a raw material, or the number of pieces of a component.
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For material that is partly lost in processing, enter the Yield, the share that ends up in the finished product. The Net weight column shows the result; net weight divided by gross weight gives the yield if you only know those.
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Leave Append Options at their defaults unless you know what should travel from the incoming lots to your lots; they are explained in Set up Product Requirements.
A bill of material can also be loaded from a CSV file with Import bill of materials on the product list.
Product suppliers (purchased products)
Save the product first; Add supplier is available once it exists. Tick rows to Remove them.
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Under Product suppliers, click Add supplier and pick the counterparty.
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Enter the Purchase share in percent. One supplier gets 100; several suppliers must add up to 100, otherwise the product cannot be saved.
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Click Save. With the PCF module, the table also shows each supplier's Supplier PCF status, and ticking suppliers lets you Request PCF from them; see General Product Carbon Footprint manual.
Product suppliers only matter for Product Carbon Footprints. Without the PCF module you can skip this section. To give many products the same suppliers, tick them in the list and use Assign suppliers, or load a CSV with Import product suppliers.
Many products at once
Import Products on the product list takes a CSV file with up to 5000 rows. Choose the import mode first: Create adds products that are not yet in your registry, Update changes products that already exist. Download CSV template gives you the column layout, and Export products from product list gives you your current data as a starting point for an update.
Other actions
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Action |
Where |
What it does |
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Duplicate |
Product, top bar |
Creates a copy of the product to start a similar one. Save your changes first. |
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Copy Specifications |
Product, top bar |
Takes the requirements of another product; see Copy Specifications from another product. |
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Copy specifications, Assign suppliers, Assign dataset, Delete products |
Product list, after ticking rows |
The same operations on many products in one go. |
The Structure tab
Structure is a read-only view of how the product is built: its bill of material level by level, the purchased components at the bottom and the suppliers connected to them, plus Used in, the products this one goes into. Trace Product Structure opens the same chain as a graph, and Show as list switches back. Each product in the chain shows whether its PCF data is Complete , Needs data or Excluded , which makes it the quickest place to see where emission data is missing. The chain appears once the product has a bill of material.