Materials and components
- Material data
- Supplier PCFs
- Emission factors
- Recycled materials
Light industry and consumer goods carbon solutions
Connect materials, products, manufacturing and suppliers across the consumer goods life cycle
Industry carbon management map
See key carbon management objects across the consumer goods life cycle, from materials to markets
Product design and BOMs
- Product structures
- Material combinations
- SKU management
- Carbon models
Production and outsourced manufacturing
- OEM/ODM
- Production data
- Energy use
- Supplier collaboration
Packaging, logistics and market delivery
- Packaging materials
- Logistics and transport
- Product carbon footprint
- Customer responses
Multiple materials, SKUs and dispersed production make consumer goods carbon management challenging
Complex material combinations make upstream data hard to unify
Consumer goods may combine plastics, metals, wood, paper, fibers and chemicals from suppliers with different data capabilities. Obtaining and tracing primary data, supplier PCFs and suitable background data directly affects footprint quality.
Frequent product changes make carbon models hard to maintain
New products, materials, structures, packaging and suppliers all affect carbon performance. Manual product-by-product modeling and repeated calculations cannot easily support many SKUs and rapid iteration.
Extensive outsourcing makes ongoing production data hard to obtain
OEMs, ODMs and multiple supplier tiers hold much of the production, energy and material data. Brands need complete, consistent and verifiable information for product accounting and supply chain reductions.
Growing market requirements call for ongoing product data delivery
Brands and overseas markets increasingly require product footprints, material information, circularity and traceability. Businesses need to turn one-off project data into maintained, reusable and deliverable environmental data.
Build integrated carbon management across the consumer goods life cycle
Materials
Build a multi-material carbon data foundation
Start product carbon management with material selection
Collect supplier primary data, product footprints and suitable background data for plastics, metals, wood, paper, fibers and chemicals. Manage materials, suppliers, factors and evidence consistently.
Use Cyacle to improve primary data coverage for footprints, material comparisons, green procurement and supply chain reductions.
