PCF Digital Tool is a solution that calculates the carbon footprint at product level.
Many customers are requesting such values to compute their own footprints. In order to publish our annual corporate report, the same solution calculates the scope 3.1 emission corporate report, by combining our indirect emissions related to our supplies (raw materials and industrial goods) at corporate level.
In a nutshell, it uses the raw material quantities from our BOMs, convert these quantities in CO2 emissions using supplier PCF (for our raw materials) or emission factors coming form commercial database (EcoInvent) or emission factor proxies when missing. Then, in addition to this raw material scope, tool is computing product footprint related to energy consumption, waste emissions, or direct emission of greenhouse gases, and also upstream or internal transport.
Then, it also manages carbon content of the products, considering total carbon atoms and biogenic carbon content (from biomass). Other KPIs are also computed to review confidence in the calculation (Primary Data Share, Data Quality Rating...)
Finally, a validation process, performed by the PCF data owner, qualify the calculation to be used by GBUs and validate data sharing with our customers.
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Description | Advanced Dashboard | Validated PCF |
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Product basics | Portfolio product list with commercial name, production plant, year, |
GBU, material group |
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Validated PCF value (kgCO2/kg) of finish product |
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Validated Biogenic Carbon content, CO2 removals (kgCO2/kg) |
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Net Product |
Carbon Footprint (kgC02/kg) |
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Scope & energy type details: PCF split |
by emission contribution |
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Calculation details | Latest calculated PCF value and split by scope & energy type |
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Latest calculated Biogenic values (Total Carbon content, Biogenic carbon content, RCI) |
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Latest calculated emissions split (Fossil / Biogenic / Land Use / Aircraft ) |
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Raw materials |
contribution breakdown details(usage factor, emission factor, source of emission |
factor…) |
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Intermediates contribution breakdowns per plant, scope and energy type
Energy, Wastes, Process direct emissions details in breakdowns |
by plant and intermediate (Energy type, emission factor, QUS, Energy quantity) |
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Wastes details for detailed breakdowns by plant (Waste type, emission factor, Waste estimated quantity)
Access management | Data access management for users by GBU |
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Coverage of Raw Materials mapped with an emission factor
Export Controlled products | excluded | excluded | |
Confidential or trade secrets products | excluded | included | |
Quality KPIs | TFS KPIs: Primary Data share (PDS), Data quality rating (DQR) |
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Recipe (BOM) balance ratio (raw material qty vs. finished product qty) | currently for validation only |
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Mapping coverage of raw Materials with an emission factor & biogenicdata |
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Warning |
Coverage of Raw Materials mapped with biogenic data
when a significant change occurs between latest calculated value and validated value for PCF and |
Alert when a significant change occurs between latest validated biogenic and validated Biogenic content
You're part of Novecare team and want to know more about how a PCF is calculated ?
Check our dedicated page : PCF Calculation Methodology for Novecare
Want to deep dive into features details?
Check on the features and functional documentation.
Want to know what is on going in the product increment?
Check on the Program Increments
Any question, issue or request?
See our support page.
Biogenic content |
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Validation process | Portfolio overview of number products (by GBU / plant ) per validation status (validated, rejected, pending) |
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Raw materials | Low Carbon product alternatives: table extraction to be able to perform estimation of PCF and cost by substituting raw materials on selected Finished products | coming soon |
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Raw material details (supplier, emission factors…) + corporate reporting scope 3.1 |
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BOM balance YoY | Explain BOM changes: Show the raw materials for which the quantity variation impacts the BOM balance over years |
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Emissions Changes | Explain PCF change: showing for each scope contributor, variation of quantities and emissions factors variations over years |
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