What Is Product Carbon Footprint?
A product's entire carbon story — from cradle to gate (or grave)
Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) is the calculation of all greenhouse gas emissions associated with a product — from raw material extraction through manufacturing, packaging, distribution, and where relevant, the use and disposal phases — expressed as CO₂ equivalent (kgCO₂e). ISO 14067:2018 and the GHG Protocol Product Standard are the core frameworks that define how this calculation is performed.
A real-world scenario: An aluminum profile manufacturer must share a PCF value with its European customer for every 1 kg of profile shipped. This requires collecting, validating, and mapping dozens of data points — primary aluminum consumption, energy used in smelting, natural gas burn during extrusion, anodizing chemicals, intra-factory logistics, and final shipping — against an emission factor database such as Ecoinvent. Manually, with a consultant, the process takes weeks. With CarbonSmart, it is completed in minutes.
Product-level carbon transparency is no longer just a sustainability preference; it has become a mandatory operational input for CBAM, CSRD, EPD certification, and major customer RFPs.
Most importantly: CarbonSmart does not require deep sustainability expertise to operate. A mechanical engineer, chemical engineer, or environmental engineer on your team — even an intern — can run the platform end to end. Thanks to process-based modeling, AI-powered recommendations, and automatic emission factor matching, your operational teams can independently execute PCF processes without any advanced calculation know-how. The platform lets even non-technical users produce standard-compliant reports without needing a consultant.
Why CarbonSmart PCF
Consultant-free, automated, scalable PCF management
Calculate in Minutes
Get your PCF instantly with ISO 14067-compliant process modeling — no consulting timelines required.
Unlimited SKUs
Calculate PCF for unlimited SKUs, from 1 to 10,000+ products. Batch analysis and bulk reporting included.
ERP & IoT Integration
Automatic data pull from SAP, Logo, Netsis and production-line sensors. Manual entry drops to zero.
ISO 14067 Compliance
Verification-ready, standard-compliant reports powered by Ecoinvent v3.10 emission factor integration.
Turn Your Product Flow Into End-to-End Carbon Data
Your raw material, energy, process, and supplier data come together on CarbonSmart to produce a product-level carbon footprint.
Raw Material & Inputs
Production Process
Product Carbon Footprint
kgCO₂e / product unit
Process-Based Data Entry & Automatic Emission Factor Matching
Users define their product, add production steps to the platform, and fill in the required input/output data for each step. CarbonSmart automatically maps every data point against Ecoinvent and company-specific emission factors to complete the calculation.
Platform Capabilities
Your entire PCF workflow on a single platform
Unlimited Products & SKUs
Parallel PCF calculations across your full product portfolio.
Batch Analysis
Calculate hundreds of products from the same process family at once.
Scenario Comparison
Compare alternative production scenarios and pick the lowest-carbon recipe.
Time-Based Tracking
Monitor monthly, quarterly, and yearly performance trends on a single dashboard.
Supplier Module
Collect data from suppliers and handle missing values with alternatives.
AI Process Suggestion
AI turns the production process you describe into an automated process structure.
Bring manual data entry down to zero
CarbonSmart pulls data automatically from ERP systems such as SAP, Logo, and Netsis and from IoT sensors on the production line. Every production order, shipment, and energy reading is instantly converted into a carbon calculation — your operations teams no longer wrestle with Excel.
- Native SAP / Logo / Netsis connectors
- Production-line IoT data (OPC UA, Modbus)
- REST API & Webhook support
- Automatic data quality checks
A standard-compliant PCF report in minutes
Pick the system boundary and functional unit — CarbonSmart automatically generates a verification-ready report in the ISO 14067 format.
Product Data & Process Flow
ISO 14067:2018
Product Carbon Footprint Report
Unlimited Reports
Create as many PCF reports as you need with no extra fees.
Product Comparison
Analyze PCF values of different SKUs side by side.
Brand Customization
Report output styled to match your corporate brand identity.
Turn every link of your supply chain into carbon data
The hardest part of PCF is collecting primary data from suppliers. CarbonSmart sends invitations directly to your suppliers, manages data collection forms, and automatically suggests Ecoinvent secondary data where values are missing.
- Automatic supplier invitations and reminders
- Centralized data approval workflow
- Secondary-data suggestions for missing inputs
- Supplier-level performance scoring
Describe your production process — AI turns it into a process structure
We make complex calculations accessible to everyone. Your operations teams can manage PCF without technical expertise.
Natural-Language Process Creation
Describe your production steps in plain text; AI builds the process tree automatically.
Smart Data Suggestions
When inputs are missing or inconsistent, the system suggests similar product references.
Reduction Opportunities
AI identifies the highest-impact process steps and carbon reduction opportunities.
Security & Trust
Enterprise-grade security with flexible deployment options
AES-256 Encryption
All sensitive data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and in transit.
OAuth2 & SSO
Single point of access control via enterprise identity management.
Role-Based Access (RBAC)
Granular authorization — you decide who can see what.
Cloud & On-Premise
Cloud-based SaaS or on-premise deployment options.
From Our Customers
"With CarbonSmart, our product-level carbon footprint calculations now finish in minutes. The supplier data management and reporting modules have significantly reduced our operational workload."
Migros
Sustainability Team