osapiens HUB for Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)
Collect the right data. Calculate consistent PCFs. Share them with customers and partners in the formats they need. With osapiens HUB for PCF, you manage footprints across your entire portfolio without chasing data or rebuilding calculations for every request.
Every PCF request feels like starting over? It doesn’t have to.
A customer asks for product-level carbon data. Then another team needs the same information in a different format. You chase inputs across spreadsheets, systems and suppliers, reconcile different numbers, and start recalculating as soon as a material, supplier or emission factor changes. What should be a repeatable process turns into another one-off project.
osapiens HUB for PCF turns recurring effort into a structured process. Instead of rebuilding product footprints from scratch, you create a consistent data foundation that stays usable across your portfolio and is ready for whatever request comes next.
From one-off calculations to a reusable data backbone
Import product data and BoMs
Bring product master data and Bills of Materials into the osapiens HUB through ERP integration or direct import.
Create an initial PCF automatically
Generate a first Product Carbon Footprint from your BoM, supported by AI-assisted emission factor mapping.
Enrich your footprint with additional data
Add operational, internal as well as external supply chain data regarding transport, energy, processing to move from a basic material footprint toward cradle-to-gate or full lifecycle modeling.
Keep every result controlled and audit-ready
Review, lock and version your PCF results so you always know which data, assumptions and calculations sit behind each footprint.
Reuse PCF data across your product workflows
Put the data you have already collected to work elsewhere — from Product Compliance Management to future Digital Product Passport use cases.
Share PCF results with customers and partners
Respond to carbon data requests without starting over. Exchange standardized PCF data across your supply chain and support formats such as PACT and Catena-X.
Frequently asked questions on Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)
A Product Carbon Footprint measures the greenhouse gas emissions connected to a product across its life cycle, from raw material extraction and transport to processing of the product up right up to its use at the customer and the final disposal.
Cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave describe the system boundaries of a Product Carbon Footprint. Cradle-to-gate covers emissions up to the point where the product leaves the company gate. This is the most common boundary for PCFs shared along the supply chain. Cradle-to-grave goes further and also includes the product’s use phase and end-of-life emissions.
Customers increasingly ask for product-level carbon data to compare suppliers and make purchasing decisions.
Because companies need to define clear boundaries, collect data from different sources and apply emission factors consistently. Additionally, these calculations need to be updated regularly, causing considerable maintenance effort and use multiple standards and frameworks for how to measure PCFs.
osapiens helps structure the process from product scope and data collection to emission factor mapping, hotspot analysis and customer-ready results.
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