The Home dashboard is the first thing you see when you enter a workspace. It answers four questions in order: what is our footprint, what needs attention, how much should we trust the number, and where do we reduce it.
You can reorder or hide the sections with 'Customise' in the top right. The bar at the top names the reporting period (your baseline), the latest report, and when the figures were last calculated.
Portfolio footprint and trajectory
The headline is your baseline footprint, with the number of products and units behind it, so you can see at once whether it covers what you think it does. The chip beneath it measures your latest report against that baseline, and Open latest report takes you to it. If no comparison against the baseline is possible yet, the chip says so.
Beside it, the trajectory plots reported impact against the path to your target. The chart shows where you were at baseline, where you are now, and the straight line to your commitment, which is what makes "on track" a statement rather than a hope.
Needs attention
A short list of things waiting on you, each a card that opens where you deal with it:
- Products flagged: products with a dataset over its Data Needs Matrix threshold. Fixing these lifts the portfolio DQR.
- Products unscored: products not yet in the portfolio score. They pick one up on their next calculation.
- Drafts with data issues: drafts held back by a problem of their own. The card opens Data issues, which says what to fix and which products wait on them.
- Registry requests: requests from your customers awaiting your response in the Registry, with how many are older than 30 days.
- Report due: the next historical report's period is about to close, or has closed.
A card with nothing to count does not appear, and when nothing qualifies the whole section is absent rather than showing reassurance. Dismiss all hides the cards until a count changes, at which point it is new information and comes back.
Data confidence
Four cards answering how much of the number is yours and how well it represents your products:
- Product entries: how many products are modelled against your target, and how many are still missing.
- Data quality: the DQR across your current products, where 1 is best and 5 is worst, with how many are scored and flagged and the worst-scoring product called out. Baseline DQR opens the baseline's own assessment. See Understanding your data quality score.
- Inputs you provided: the average share of product inputs you entered rather than left on defaults, how it has moved since the baseline (in percentage points), and the product left most on defaults. Improve product models takes you to your products.
- Raw material origin: how many of your sources are yours, split between measured, computed (your farm records), Registry, override and secondary data. Each source counts once, so a trace ingredient counts the same as a major one; open a product report for the contribution-weighted picture. With Registry access, Request better data opens Registry > Supplier engagement so you can ask a supplier; otherwise the link opens Supply chain > Raw materials.
Where to reduce
Largest contributors ranks products by share of the footprint, with the life cycle stage carrying each one, its data quality, and how it has moved. It is a shortlist for reduction work: the top rows are usually most of the footprint.
Impact profile shows all 16 PEF categories normalised and weighted, marking the largest few. It is how you tell a climate story from a water story, which changes what a sensible reduction looks like.
Reduction targets and picking up
Reduction targets shows progress against each commitment. Pick up where you left off lists what you and your colleagues were last working on, with shortcuts to add a product, upload volumes or start a report.
If the dashboard looks empty
Every figure is drawn from calculated products in the selected period. A new workspace with no products, or a period with no report, will show empty sections rather than zeros, because zero would be a claim.