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Create Products

Manually Create Products

  1. Go to Products in the main menu and click Create New Product

  2. Enter a product number 

  3. Select Product type as "Manufactured" or “Purchased”.

    Add other relevant information such as

    • Description

    • Product Marking

    • Drawing Number

    • Any Custom Fields added for you specific company.

  4. Select Unit. 

    Weight Per Unit can be filled manually or be calculated from the Bill of Material (BoM) for Manufactured products. If you add a BoM, the weight cannot be defined manually.

  5. Click Save button

If a weight unit is selected (kg or tonnes), the weight is automatically defined as 1 for kg or 1000 for tonnes. This implies that 1 kg of product is weighing 1 kg, and 1 tonne of product is weighing 1000 kg.

Add a Bill of Material for Manufactured Products

A Bill of Materials (BoM) lists the products that the parent product consists of, e.g. a bar or sheet metal for machined products or a list of components for assembled products. The BoM is used to calculate the total weight of the parent product, to calculate embedded emissions and in Manufacturing Lots as default list for Inbound lots that should be linked to a manufacturing lot.

  1. Open a Manufactured Product.

  2. In the Bill of Material section, Click “+ Add item”.

  3. Select the product to be added to the BoM.

  4. Enter the quantity used to produce one unit of the parent product. This is gross weight of a raw material, or the number of products used in an assembled product.

  5. Enter the Yield, or the scrap rate. The Quantity is multiplied by the Yield to calculate the net weight of the manufactured product. If the Yield is not known, simply divide the net weight by the gross weight to calculate the Yield.

The Append Options is used in Product Quality Assurance and Manufacturing lots and is described here Product Quality Assurance . It is not relevant for PCF management.

Add Product Suppliers for Purchased Products

You can assign one or several suppliers to a purchased product. This is used in Product Carbon Footprint calculations to assign Inbound PCF reports to a purchased product.

It is not necessary to add Product Suppliers if you are not using the PCF module.

If you are creating a new product, you must first Save the product before the Add Supplier button is available.

If you only have one supplier, the purchase share should be 100%.

Add additional suppliers and allocate the purchase share between them.

The total allocated share must add up to 100%

  1. Under Product Supplier, click Add Supplier button

  2. Add the supplier that you purchase the product from, and the associated purchase share for this supplier.

  3. Click Save button

After the product is saved with one or more suppliers, you can request PCF data from the suppliers. This is described here General Product Carbon Footprint manual | Request PCF from Suppliers

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