Products
Learn how to create and edit products, organise your workspace and understand product reports.
Creating Products
How Can I Create a Food Product Manually?A step-by-step guide to manually modelling a food product, from product details through lifecycle mapping to generating a report.How Can I Create a Packaging Product Manually?A step-by-step guide to manually modelling a packaging product, from product type through lifecycle mapping to generating a report.How Can I Extract Data from Product Specifications with AI (Beta)?Import a product from its specification with AI: the downloadable template (version 1.3), what is read (the supplier of each line, packaging materials, production steps, case, pallet and its uses, countries, servings) and the review.How Do I Read the Product List?One line per product, the icons after its name and their key, the panel that opens when you click a product, the views and filters, and resizing the columns.How to Organise Products with Workspaces, Spaces, and FoldersSet up and use the organisational hierarchy, workspaces, spaces, sub-spaces, and folders, to structure your product LCAs and control permissions.Product Categories in Lists, Reports and AnalyticsA food product's category groups it in Sold products, names it on its report, and splits volume reports, the Home dashboard and analytics by category.Transport Packaging and End of LifeModel pallets, cases and shrink wrap as a packaging system, including where each item leaves your supply chain and how it is treated when it does.Co-Products and By-ProductsChoose between a co-product and a by-product on a step output, how a co-product takes its share of the impact by mass, the Co- & by-products list, using your own co-products as ingredients, and how volume reports count each one once.
Duplicate Products
How Do I Duplicate a Product Record?Duplicate and modify a product record for quick customisation when products are similar.How Do I Add Pack Sizes of a Product?Model the same recipe in another pack: a pack size follows its base product's ingredients and food steps, scaled to its amount, and does not count against your products limit.
Edit Products
How Do I Edit an Existing Product RecordEdit and save changes to an existing product record or draft.How Do I Use Data Issues to Complete My Drafts?Products > Data issues: what keeps each draft from completing and how to fix it, what your figures rest on, opening the model at the spot, and the CSV export.Can I Restore an Earlier Version of a Product Record?Restore an earlier version of a product record from its edit history.
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Raw Materials
Internal Products and Where Your Data Comes FromRead the internal products list, mark each product as made or bought, follow an ingredient back to its product, and see which data is primary.Where Does the HESTIA Badge Come From?Some ingredients carry a HESTIA mark next to their country of origin: what HESTIA is, what we take from it, what stays ours, and the attribution its licence asks for.Circular Ingredients: Co-Products and ResiduesMark a raw material as a co-product or residue, use your own co-products as ingredients, name what each line replaces, and read the circular share and the impact avoided, which sits beside the footprint and is never subtracted from it.
Product Reports
Understanding Your Data Quality ScoreRead the Data Quality Rating (DQR) on a product report, understand the four criteria behind it, and know what to fix first.How To Understand the PEF ReportRead and interpret a product's PEF report, including the report overview and the full Screening LCA report.How to Understand the GHG Protocol ReportView a product's estimated Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions using the GHG Protocol methodology.Connecting a PACT ClientShare your published PACT product carbon footprints with a buyer, and connect to Sustained's PACT endpoint as the buyer. Sustained is a PACT conformant solution on Technical Specifications v3.How Do I Export One Page Summary Reports to Share with Stakeholders?Export a product's summary report as a PDF for sharing with stakeholders, with its data quality score and, for PEF and recipes, a footprint statement page that carries the product's assurance sign-off.How Do I Export Impact Data for Many Products?Select products in Sold products and download their impact data as one CSV, per kg or per unit, up to 1,000 products at a time.
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