Open Supply chain > Raw materials. This is one list of what your company buys: ingredients matched to our library, purchased goods that are modelled or come from the Sustained Registry, and items you have imported from your purchasing list. It covers your whole company account, not just the active workspace.
Purchased goods used to have their own page. They are now rows in this list, so Supply chain no longer shows a separate Purchased goods entry. If your account does not include Raw Materials, you keep Supply chain > Purchased goods as before.
What a row is
A raw material is one item from one supplier and one origin: barley malt from Ashford Packers in the United Kingdom is a different raw material from the same supplier's barley malt grown elsewhere. Each one has its own impacts, so a product that splits an ingredient across two suppliers is calculated from both.
Items matched to our library are folded into one row per item. The collapsed row tells you how many sources it has, how many suppliers and origins, and how many products use any of them. Click the arrow to expand it into its sources. A purchased good, or an item with only one source, is always a row of its own.
The tabs along the top filter by where the numbers come from (All, Library, Modelled, Registry, Imported); the Imported tab also has a Category filter. Removed, beside them, lists the raw materials you removed (see Removing raw materials nothing uses below). The search finds a raw material by name, SKU, GTIN or supplier. A Co-product or Residue chip marks what a source is, and the What it is filter shows one kind (see What it is below).
With Registry access, a Supplier data column and filter say where each source's supplier data stands, and an Unassigned tab holds supplier data that is on no source yet. See Supplier data below.
Impacts source
The Impacts source column says, in words, where each raw material's numbers come from. The icon beside it gives the same answer at a glance, and a folded row shows one icon for each kind of source it holds.
| Impacts source | What it means |
|---|---|
| Library, secondary data | Our background dataset for the item. This is the starting point for everything you have not replaced. |
| Your supplier's figure | A figure your supplier gave you, typed in by your team. It is recorded as theirs and counts in reports: self-declared, or 3rd-party verified when their verification statement or PCF certificate is attached. |
| Your measurement | A footprint your organisation measured itself. |
| Your farm record | Computed from activity data you recorded for your own site. |
| Registry data | Your supplier's own figures from the Sustained Registry, marked Usable or Not your supplier yet. |
| Entered by hand | Primary data entered before we started asking whose figure it was. |
| Modelled from spec | A purchased good modelled by importing its specification. |
| Modelled by you | A purchased good built in the product editor, or imported from a specification before October 2026. |
| Modelled by Sustained | A purchased good imported through the product API. |
| Registry product | A purchased good using its supplier's figures from the Sustained Registry. Marked Partial when they gave only some categories: your model of the good fills the rest. |
| Supplier's figure | An item you imported, carrying the figure its supplier sent. Imported items are not used in models until you bring them in (see below). |
| Library material: <material> | A packaging item you imported, with no supplier figure in use, footprinted from the library figure of the material you set on it. Secondary data, and not used in models. |
| No data yet | An item you imported that has no figure yet: ask its supplier for data, or for packaging, set its material. |
Where your own data covers only part of the footprint, the label says so: , climate only (a figure for climate change alone) or , some categories. Library data is used for the rest.
When the data record behind your figure has passed its validity year, the row shows Expired. The figure stays in use. The flag is a prompt to get an updated figure, not a downgrade.
With Registry access, the Supplier data column says where each source's supplier data stands (No supplier data, Asked, Declined, Answer ready, Data available, Update available or Expiring), with what to do next. A raw material with no supplier cannot be asked about until you Set supplier. See How do I keep supplier data current?
The Used column shows how many products use a raw material. Click the count to see which products they are.
Exporting the list
Global Admins have Export CSV at the top of the page, beside New. It downloads every raw material in your current view (the tab, search and category you have set), one row per source with folded rows opened up: where its impact data comes from (library data, your primary data, a model or the Sustained Registry) and whose figure it is, its supplier and origin, and how many products use it. Use it to see which of your raw materials already have a model or supplier data behind them.
For the climate figure behind every raw material, with its source and standing, in one workbook, use Download PCF dataset (Excel) beside it. See How do I download the PCF dataset?
The raw material panel
Click a row to open its panel.
- Supplier data (accounts with Registry access): where the source's supplier data stands, in a sentence, with what to do next: ask for data, review an answer, apply an update or find data.
- Overview: the impacts source and what it means, the supplier (the Publisher for a registry product), the origin, how many products use it, your own references (name, purchased goods code or SKU, GTIN and the supplier's product code, which you can edit and save here) and the Source history, which records each time the source changed, when, and who changed it: imported from your file, brought into your models, kept as a record, or merged with another item. An imported item's panel has the Overview only.
- Info, Impacts and Data records (library items): details of the item, its figures for every impact category, and the data records your primary data comes from.
- Impacts (modelled goods and registry products): the good's footprint per kg, climate change first, read only. To change it, edit the good's model or, for a registry product, ask its supplier to update. For a good using a partial footprint, each category says whether it is the Supplier's or Your model's. The Overview links to either.
What it is
On an ingredient's Overview tab, What it is says whether the source is Primary (grown or made for this purpose), a Co-product (a saleable output of another process, carrying its allocated share of that process) or a Residue (would otherwise be disposed of: its transport and your own processing count, the producer's process does not). Where our catalogue knows the ingredient, it suggests Usually a co-product or Usually a residue, with Apply. Save recalculates the products that use it. Only Global Admins, Global Super Users and LCA Experts can change it. A co-product with no supplier figure offers to Ask the supplier for their allocated figure.
A raw material made from one of your own co-products reads Your own co-product, with the product and step it comes from. It has no supplier, so it has no Supplier data tab and nothing to ask, and it is always a co-product.
What each recipe line replaces is set on the line, not here. See Circular ingredients: co-products and residues.
Packaging material
A packaging type held as a raw material (a Bag, a Box, a Tray) and a packaging item you imported each take a Material on their panel: "Used for this item's footprint in the PCF dataset." Choose it and click Save. To set it on several imported packaging items at once, tick them in the list and click Set material in the bar at the bottom. Only Global Admins, Global Super Users and LCA Experts can change it.
The material gives the item its figure in your PCF dataset, unless its supplier gives a footprint. Without one, the dataset lists the item as missing. Product models keep their own packaging materials: setting one here changes no product.
Changing a raw material's impacts updates every product that uses it
You do not need to edit your products one by one. Change a raw material's impacts here, and every product that uses it is recalculated for you, in every workspace.
On a library item, open the Impacts tab. The actions are at the top of the page:
- Edit: type figures for one or more impact categories, and the year they are valid for. They are recorded as the source's supplier's figures and count in reports. With Registry access, you are offered to ask the supplier for their data instead before you type, and to ask them to confirm it once it is saved.
- Supplier's document (optional): attach the document the figures come from, with its type. A verification statement or PCF certificate makes the record 3rd-party verified once the file passes its malware check; until then it reads "Self-declared · checking the attached file". An LCA report or Other document is kept with the record, which stays self-declared. The save sheet names the document and the assurance it will give. If the file does not upload, the figures are still saved: attach it on Data records.
- Verified figures score better on data quality than self-declared ones, so the products using them are recalculated when the level changes.
- Find data (accounts with Registry access): look for the supplier's data on the Sustained Registry and use it on this source.
- Revert: discard your figures and go back to the library dataset.
Before anything is saved, a summary shows what changes, by how much, and how many products will be recalculated in which workspaces.
Using a good you buy
A library raw material can also take its impact and emissions factors from one of your purchased goods. On its panel, choose Use a good you buy to provide its impact and emissions factors and pick the good. Only a good whose final facility is at the raw material's supplier, in its country, can provide them, so the list offers exactly those. If nobody has said who supplies it yet, choose Set supplier on its Supplier data card or in the row menu, then pick a good from them. Before you switch, the confirmation says how many products will be recalculated.
A raw material using its supplier's figures from the Registry cannot be switched to a good: their figures are the best data for that purchase.
Once a good provides the factors, Use another good swaps it and Use library data instead goes back to our library dataset. Only Global Admins, Global Super Users and LCA Experts can switch a raw material's source.
Recalculation runs in the background and may take a while. You can carry on working, and the products update as it finishes. Reports you have already exported do not change.
The same happens when a purchased good changes: when you use a supplier's data on it or stop using it, when you apply their update, or when you save changes to the good's own model. Products that use the good as packaging, and change models built on those products, are recalculated too.
If Edit is greyed out, hover over it for the reason. Usually your user does not have permission to edit primary data, which a workspace administrator can grant. Primary data is entered against the PEF categories, so switch the panel to PEF if it is showing GHG.
Adding to the list
Use New at the top of the list:
- Import file: model a purchased good from its specification. See How can I extract data from product specifications with AI.
- Import items from a list (accounts with Registry access): bring in your purchasing list from a CSV. See below.
- Get from the Registry: find a supplier's product on the Registry and bring it in as a registry product (accounts with Registry access).
Ingredients from our library do not need adding here. They appear in this list as soon as a product uses them.
Importing your purchasing list
New > Import items from a list takes a CSV with one item per row. The first row names the columns: purchased goods code (your code for the item, also read as sku), name and supplier are required; supplier email, gtin, supplier code, kind (ingredient or packaging), category and origin (a country) are optional. Other columns are ignored. Download a template gives you the headings.
Check file shows what would happen to each row before anything is added: new items, items updated from the file, items you already have, new suppliers, and rows skipped with the reason. Rows marked in yellow need a look. Suppliers you already have are matched by name and the others are added. Importing the file again updates your items by their purchased goods code. A file can hold up to 5,000 items and 5 MB.
Imported items appear under the Imported tab. They are a record of what you buy and are not used in models yet: that is what the review below is for.
Supplier data
With Registry access, every source carries a Supplier data status, and the Supplier data filter shows one status or Needs you (answers ready, updates available, figures expiring and asks declined). Select sources to ask several suppliers at once, or to apply several updates. See How do I ask a supplier for data? and How do I keep supplier data current?
The Unassigned tab holds supplier data that is on no source yet, such as an offer you accepted: use it on a source or as a purchased good, or save it as a record.
Enter supplier data records figures from a document a supplier already sent you, with the document attached; only your organisation sees it, and it is marked Entered by you. Download all as CSV exports every piece of supplier data you can still use.
Bringing supplier data into your models
When items you imported have supplier data that can go into your models, a banner appears at the top of the list: Bring your supplier data into your models. Review them opens the review.
Each item gets one of three outcomes:
- A purchased good with its supplier's footprint: where the supplier sent a full footprint per kilogram, the item becomes a registry product.
- A library item: otherwise, pick the closest library item and an origin, and the supplier's figure is kept on it as your override; the library fills the categories they did not give. The closest match is suggested: the one the supplier named, else the nearest by name.
- Stays declared: packaging with only some categories, a category models do not use, or data models cannot use stay out of models under Staying out of models, as a record of what you buy.
Tick the items to bring in, then Check shows how many are ready, how many merge into an existing raw material of the same supplier and origin, and how many cannot be applied. Apply brings them in. Keep as a record moves an item out of the review; Bring back into the review returns it.
Removing raw materials nothing uses
After onboarding, the list can hold items nothing uses any more. A raw material that no product uses, in any workspace, drafts and change models included, can be removed.
- One: open its row menu and choose Remove. A raw material in use shows Remove greyed, with how many products use it.
- Several: tick them and click Remove in the bar at the bottom. Any that are still in use are kept, and the result says so.
The confirmation says what goes with each kind:
- A library item or an item you imported leaves your list and can be restored from Removed. A library item stays available in the library.
- A registry product: you stop using the supplier's listing. Their listing is not changed.
- A good you modelled: its product model is deleted too, so it cannot be restored.
Removed, beside the source tabs, lists what was removed, newest first, with its code, supplier and the date. Click Restore on a row, or tick several and click Restore in the bar, to bring them back. A good whose product was deleted stays in the list with the reason. A removed item also comes back by itself if you import it or use it again.
Global Admins and Global Super Users can remove and restore raw materials. Every remove and restore is recorded in the activity log.