You've been asked for your product's footprint.
A customer on Sustained has invited you to share impact data. Here is what they need, how you stay in control of it, and how to do it once for every customer who asks.
What the invite means, and what it does not.
“What exactly does my customer need: a PCF, a PEF, which categories?”
A product footprint they can use in their own model: all 16 PEF categories and a GHG figure, with a data-quality rating and the methodology named. Sustained produces exactly that shape.
“How do I share it without giving away my recipe or my sources?”
You share a footprint, not a formulation. Origin is disclosed at country level unless you opt for finer; you set who sees it and whether they can contact you. Withdrawal is honoured. Answering is free, on a form or from your workspace.
“Can I do this once and reuse it for the next customer who asks?”
Yes. A listing in the Impact Registry can be shared with each trading partner you have a real relationship with. Customers on Sustained use it; for anyone else, export CSV or JSON, or with the GHG add-on serve a PACT footprint their system reads directly. Once a product is shared, its report download carries a footprint statement as its second page, with a link anyone can use to verify it.
Model once in Footprinting. Share with every customer on Sustained.
Your Registry: customer requests, what you share, who uses it, expiry reminders.
Customer requests and Shared data sit under To customers. Answer each item, or decline with a reason the buyer reads. Share from the product: pick customers, preview what they see, then Share.
- Share from the product, with a preview of what customers see
- Who uses your figures, and requests from customers waiting for an answer
- Validity capped at 24 months with reminders before expiry
- Every listing declares its allocation: by mass, with the rules behind the figures
- Your own PEF reports, eco-labels and PDFs; GHG reports with the add-on
Your customer's invite links to a free form.
The link in the email opens a page that shows the request and both ways to answer: free on the form, or from a Footprinting workspace. If you hold a footprint from another tool or a consultancy, answer on the form. Your answer goes only to the customer who asked, who reviews it before using it. When you are ready to do it properly, Footprinting is here.
“Tazaki Foods has footprinted over 1,000 products and is now sharing granular emissions data with their own suppliers, turning a reporting requirement into upstream collaboration.”
Where to start
Footprinting
Modelling, reports, eco-labels, spec-sheet import and Registry sharing, in one package. Buy online, share this week. Your customer's invite may carry a partner rate; check it before you configure.
From
£1,100
per year · 1 user, 10 products · monthly at a tenth of annual