Invitation
Your PCF process begins when you receive an invitation from CarbonCloud—on behalf of your customer—asking you to create an account. Once created, you can access the reporting platform and explore the ongoing PCF calculations for your products.
Adding data
Initially, you will see PCF values for your products based on secondary data. Depending on your position in the value chain, you add different types and levels of data. When you submit your primary data, automated modeling replaces the secondary data and recalculates the product’s climate footprint—for all parties in the value chain.
Extend the network and increase the accuracy of the PCF data
If applicable, involve your suppliers. Send them an automatic invitation to submit their climate footprints. The invitation process repeats for each new party, enabling broader and more supplier specific data contributions. As a result, statistical benchmark data is gradually replaced with primary activity data across more stages of the value chain. The network model ensures that downstream calculations build on upstream data.
Track supplier performance & increase data quality
The more parties in the product’s value chain participate, the higher the product’s data quality becomes. Your view updates automatically in real time, allowing you to track supplier performance and follow emission updates through a complete change log for each product.
Reporting deadlines
To ensure that emission reduction efforts and expanded data collection are captured, you can continuously update your emission values in the platform. The draft and publish functions ensure that only intentional updates move forward in the chain and make it clear when updates have been made. This allows all parties in the value chain to verify that the product’s PCF is based on current data when requested.
NOTE!
You retain full ownership of all activity data you submit. All automatic real time PCF updates across the value chain concern aggregated PCF results—not granular activity data—unless explicit permission is given. Read more via Data Handling & Privacy.