Internal product: Refers to a product made for internal use only (not for sale), often used as a raw material to a product SKU.
Intermediate product: Refers to a product sold to a business customer for further processing.
Final product: Refers to a product sold to the end consumer.
Product SKU: Stock Keeping Unit. Refers to a unit of product sold to a business customer or a consumer.
Raw material: Something you buy and use in your products, from one supplier and one origin. Raw materials are listed under Supply chain > Raw materials and shared across all your workspaces.
Purchased good: A raw material modelled as a product in its own right (from its specification, or from a supplier's data on the Sustained Registry) rather than taken from our library.
Made or bought: Whether you make an internal product or buy it finished. Made products are listed under Products > Internal products, bought ones as purchased goods under Supply chain > Raw materials. You choose it on the product, and it is not decided by who owns the production facility. See Made or bought.
Co-manufacturer: Another company that makes a product for you, to your recipe, in its own facility. A product made by a co-manufacturer is still made, not bought: its facility belongs to a third party, but the product is yours.
Draft: A product that cannot be calculated yet, because something in its model is missing or does not add up. Products > Data issues lists what keeps each draft from completing and how to fix it. See How do I use Data issues.
Co-product: An output of a production step that has value of its own, such as whey from cheese making. It takes a share of the impact up to the step it leaves, by mass, and that share comes off your product. See Co-products and by-products.
By-product: An output of a production step with little or no value, such as trimmings nobody buys. It takes no share of the impact, so your product keeps all of it.
What it is (Primary, Co-product, Residue): What a raw material is, set on its panel under Supply chain > Raw materials. Primary is grown or made for this purpose. A co-product is a saleable output of another process and carries its allocated share of that process. A residue would otherwise be disposed of: it enters at collection, so its transport and your own processing count and the producer's process does not. See Circular ingredients: co-products and residues.
Your own co-product: A co-product or by-product of one of your own products, used as an ingredient in another. Its figures follow the product it comes from, by mass, and it has no supplier to ask.
Circular share: The share of a product's input mass that comes from co-products and residues, split between your own and purchased.
Replaces: The conventional ingredient a co-product or residue line stands in for, set on each recipe line. It is used only to state the impact that line avoids.
Avoided impact: The impact a co-product or residue line avoids compared with the ingredient it replaces, for the same mass. It is shown beside the footprint and never subtracted from it.
Share of volume: The % of a product's volume that takes one route out of a fork in its distribution, or goes to one consumption country. Routes left empty share what remains.
Food loss and consumer waste: The share of a product lost in warehouses and stores before purchase, and the share the consumer throws away. Both default to your product category's rates and can be set for each consumption location.
Impacts source: Where a raw material's numbers come from: our library's secondary data, your own primary data on top of it, a model of the purchased good, or a supplier's data from the Registry.
Imported item: A raw material you brought in from your purchasing list (a CSV), known by your purchased goods code. It is a record of what you buy until you bring it into your models.
Supplier data: A supplier's figures for something they sell you, shared with you through the Sustained Registry, or entered by you from a document they sent. Every source says where its supplier data stands.
Usable / Not your supplier yet: Supplier data is usable in any footprint you report when the company is your supplier: they answered your ask, shared with you, or confirmed you, or you set them as your supplier. It is decided once for the company, not for each footprint. Otherwise it reads Not your supplier yet: usable in drafts and change models, not in reported footprints.
Set as supplier: Saying a company on the Registry is your supplier. Everything of theirs counts in your reported footprints at once, and they are asked to confirm.
Not our customer: A supplier's answer that it does not supply you. Its data stays out of your reported footprints until it confirms you, and the raw material reads "Not confirmed by the supplier".
Unassigned: Supplier data you hold that is not on a raw material yet, with a suggested home you confirm.
Use this data: Putting a supplier's figures on a raw material through the Use sheet, which shows what will change before anything does.
Apply update: Taking a supplier's republished figures. Updates are never applied automatically.
Footprint statement: A PDF of shared figures that anyone can check on a public verify page.
Market-based and location-based Scope 2: Two ways of reporting electricity emissions. Market-based uses the emissions factor of the electricity supply chosen on each production step, or set for the whole site on its location; location-based uses that of each facility country's average grid mix.
Land Sector and Removals Standard (LSRS): The GHG Protocol standard that reports land emissions (land use change, land management) and biogenic product emissions apart from fossil and industrial emissions.
Disclosure pack: A workbook that lays out the figures from one of your reports in the shape a disclosure framework asks for. It is the material your disclosure is filled from, not a filing and not third-party verified.
Assurance user: A read-only user for an external auditor or assurer, who can view and download everything in your account and change nothing.