Searching the Registry
Search the Registry (on your supplier listings) or New > Get from the Registry (on Supply chain > Raw materials) opens the Registry's search. Only what suppliers publish openly shows here; for your own suppliers' data, ask them directly.
Tabs split Ingredients, Supplied products and, on plans with every category, Materials. Filter by Origin, Assurance, Category or Usable in production. Each listing carries a chip saying what you can do with it:
- Production-valid: you have a relationship with the supplier, so using it is production-valid.
- Exploratory: no relationship yet; usable in change models and products in development.
- View only: the supplier licensed it for viewing only. It cannot be used in your models or exported.
- Registry only: a category models do not use.
Click a listing to read it: its figures, how many of the 16 PEF categories are disclosed (the rest were not published, which is not the same as zero), who computed it, its origin, assurance, validity and methodology, and any evidence the supplier attached.
Taking a listing into your models
- A product: Accept this data makes it a purchased good bound to the listing. Its figures stand in for a model of the product, and an automatic sweep keeps the binding current.
- An ingredient: pick which of your sources for that ingredient it is. Their figure replaces the one on that source and recalculates every product that uses it. Putting it on an existing source needs a relationship with the supplier; otherwise choose Add as a new source.
Your supplier listings
Everything your suppliers have given you is listed together. Where depends on your plan: on Supply chain > Raw materials under the Supplier listings tabs (Footprinting and above), on Registry > Supplier listings (Recipe & Menu Design), or on Registry > Purchased raw materials under To match (Registry plan).
A listing needs attention when the supplier publishes fresher data, when its validity is running out or has ended, or when they withdraw it. Open it to see the new figure against the one in use and the products that would recalculate, then Update to the new figure, Ask for fresher data, Find a replacement or Keep the current one. Your products keep the last figure until you replace it.
Entering data a supplier already sent you
If a supplier sent you their figures in a document, such as a footprint report, click Enter supplier data. Record what it is, its GTIN and supplier code, the supplier, its origin, the figures (climate change at least, with the other categories if you have them), the assurance the document declares, its validity and the methodology. Then attach the document itself.
Only your organisation sees the listing. It is marked Entered by you, and its assurance as declared by the supplier. Ask supplier to refresh sends them your figures to check; once you accept their answer, it replaces what you entered.
Downloading what you hold
Open a listing and use CSV or JSON to download it, or Download all as CSV (with Download all as JSON in the menu beside it) for everything you hold. View-only and unavailable listings are left out; the JSON names them and why. A download counts as taking the listing, so it counts towards your plan's listings, and your supplier listings will say when it changes.