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Product Carbon Footprint Software
Calculate product carbon footprints in a structured and scalable way even with distributed data or Excel-based processes.
Build a consistent data foundation for your products.
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Product Carbon Footprint Software
The calculation of product carbon footprints often fails due to the same challenges
Many companies are tasked with calculating product carbon footprints, but struggle with missing data, manual processes, and a lack of scalability.
Data is distributed and incomplete
Relevant information on materials, processes, and suppliers is spread across different systems or not available at all.
Calculations are currently done manually and in Excel
PCFs are created individually, making them difficult to track, compare, and standardize.
Calculations cannot be easily transferred
Especially with many products or variants, the effort increases rapidly and becomes difficult to scale.
Calculate product carbon footprints in a structured and scalable way
greenable enables you to calculate product carbon footprints based on structured data: transparent, standards-compliant, and scalable beyond individual products.
- Central data foundation instead of scattered information: Capture and connect materials, processes, and supplier data within a consistent structure.
- Transparent calculations instead of Excel: Model PCF calculations in a transparent and standards-compliant way while reducing manual effort.
- Scalable across entire product portfolios: Calculate PCFs not just for individual products, but for variants and complete product lines.
How product carbon footprint calculation works with greenable
greenable maps your product structure along the real value chain from materials and suppliers to production steps and finished products.
1. Add suppliers, materials, and emission data
Capture your suppliers and assign materials along with the appropriate emission factors (manually or automatically), including an assessment of data quality.
3. Define products and process steps
Create your products and the associated process steps, and assign the required materials, machines, and energy consumption.
4. Account for inputs, outputs, and by-products
In addition to the main product, include waste and by-products to ensure a complete and realistic assessment.
5. Calculate and analyze product carbon footprints
Calculate PCFs in a transparent and traceable way, and use the results for analysis, standards-compliant reports, and communication with customers.
Missing supplier emission data? No problem
Missing or incomplete supplier data is one of the biggest challenges in PCF calculation. greenable helps you close these gaps in a structured way.
- Fill data gaps intelligently: If no supplier data is available when creating materials, greenable automatically assigns suitable average values from databases.
- Integrate supplier data efficiently: Request PCF data directly from your suppliers or store existing documentation centrally within the system.
- Assess data quality transparently: Always keep track of your data quality and identify opportunities for targeted improvements.
Calculate transport emissions without manual research
Transport emissions are a key component of many product carbon footprints. greenable helps you capture transport routes in a structured way and calculate emissions in line with established standards.
- Automatically derive transport routes: Store your suppliers’ address data and automatically generate suitable transport routes along with the corresponding emissions.
- Calculate in line with standards: Calculate transport emissions based on recognized methodologies such as the GLEC Framework for relevant modes of transport.
Stay in control of your PCF calculations
The more complex your products and processes, the more important a transparent and traceable model becomes. greenable makes relationships visible and helps you stay in control of your product carbon footprint calculations.
- Integrate existing data efficiently: Import master and activity data from bills of materials and routing plans, for example from SAP or proAlpha, and reduce manual effort.
- Visualize product structures: Our product graph makes inputs, relationships, and impacts within your model transparent.
- Evaluate changes more quickly: Understand how adjustments to materials, processes, or supply chains affect your product carbon footprints.
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Frequently asked questions
Regulation, terminology and details about our tool – find the answers to your questions here.
What is the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)?
The PCF comprises the total greenhouse gas emissions caused by a product in the various phases of its life cycle. We calculate the product carbon footprint according to the cradle-to-gate approach.
Is the software certified according to a standard?
The software is certified standards-compliant according to DIN EN ISO 14067 and GHG protocol. The calculation of transport emissions is based on the GLEC framework.
Can I download a PCF-report?
Yes, to communicate your carbon footprint, you can either download a concise one-page summary report or a detailed final report at the click of a button.
Where do the emission factors in the PCF solution come from?
At greenable, we work with a number of high-quality databases to determine your PCF as accurately as possible. These include ecoinvent, the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control, DEFRA and the Federal Environment Agency. With this data, our software can determine the carbon footprint across the entire value chain and help you to implement measures to reduce your footprint.
Can I use my own emission factors or values from my suppliers in the software?
Yes, you can use self-researched emission data, secondary data from our databases (including ecoinvent), or PCF values from your suppliers in our tool. Supplier PCF certificates can also be uploaded in full. This data can be incorporated when determining a Product’s Carbon Footprint across its entire lifecycle and thus flow into a company’s carbon accounting to calculate its carbon footprint.
Why do companies calculate the greenhouse gas footprint of their products?
The introduction of the sustainability reporting (CSRD) and the new ecodesign regulation (ESPR) are making PCF calculations mandatory. In addition, OEMs are driving requirements through supply chains creating additional pressure. Early adopters can establish themselves as sustainability pioneers while building expertise and systematically reducing emissions over the entire product life cycle.
What standards are there for product carbon footprint accounting?
Product Carbon Footprint calculations follow established international standards. The main standard, “Greenhouse gases – carbon footprints of products,” evolved from lifecycle assessment methodology.
Two other important frameworks are the “Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard” of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) and the Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 2050 specification.
The calculation in our software is certified in accordance with DIN EN ISO 14067 and the GHG Protocol.
How are disposal and recycling in production considered in the calculation?
In addition to the main output, production processes often generate other outputs that cause emissions, depending on the raw material. These are, for example, metal shavings or cutting waste. This type of output can be declared as either waste or a by-product. Depending on the declaration, the waste is then disposed of or recycled accordingly.