Carbonfact

Description by tool provider

Carbonfact helps companies measure, manage, and reduce their environmental footprint across product lifecycles. It ingests, cleans and enriches product data, provides tools for tracking emissions, analyzing and reducing environmental impact, and generating compliance reports.

Product segments covered by the tool

• •Apparel
• •Home textiles
• •Textile & leather accessories and goods -
• •Footwear
• •Furniture
• •Sports & outdoor equipment

Platform technologies

• •Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
• •AI/Machine learning models
• •Automated rules engine
• •QR code tagging
• •Role-based access control (RBAC)
• •Graph database
• •Cloud-hosted platform
• •Multi-tenant system design

Data input/output methods

• •Manual data entry
• •Bulk upload/export (Excel / CSV)
• •Scheduled file import/export
• •Reporting export
• •Instead of APIs we build custom Python connectors to PLMs, ERPs, Data Warehouses and Traceability solutions where necessary for customers
• •Workflow automation

Chemical substance traceability

Chain-of-custody is a continuity capability; composition and substance traceability are depth capabilities. Neither replaces the other.

• •Supplier visibility/supply chain mapping - The system stores structured information about suppliers beyond Tier 1 (e.g. role, tier, location).
• •Product–supplier association - Specific products (styles, SKUs, batches) are linked to the suppliers involved in their production.
• •Material flow / chain-of-custody tracking - Material inputs, outputs, and transformations between supply-chain actors are recorded using a defined chain-of-custody model.
• •Product composition / component traceability - Products are represented as structured compositions (e.g. components, ingredients) that can be independently traced to upstream sources.
• •Process & substance (chemical) traceability - Substances used in manufacturing processes can be recorded and linked to facilities, process steps, and affected products.

Sustainability Impact categories

Impact data coverage describes which sustainability-related topics a platform can store and manage data for. It does not indicate the quality of the data, the methodology used, or whether impacts meet specific regulatory thresholds.

• •Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data - (e.g. environmental footprint indicators at product or material level)
• •Material attributes - (e.g. fiber type, recycled / biobased content, origin attributes)
• •Carbon & energy data - (e.g. GHG emissions, energy use, Scope-related data)
• •Water use & wastewater data - (e.g. water withdrawal, consumption, discharge, wastewater treatment data)
• •Biodiversity & land use - (e.g. land-use impacts, deforestation-related data)
• •We do provide chemical impact data through a PEF analysis on all products within the Carbonfact platform, same with water use.

Types of sustainability impact data

Impact data coverage indicates what topics a system can handle; traceability capabilities indicate how precisely that data can be linked to products, materials, and processes.

• •Quantitative data - (e.g. numeric values, measurements, calculated indicators)
• •Verification & audit evidence - (e.g. audit results, third-party verification status)
• •Certificates & formal attestations - (e.g. certificates linked to suppliers, materials, or products)
• •Calculated / derived indicators - (e.g. system-generated metrics based on underlying data)

Life Cycle Assessment  (LCA) handling

Product carbon footprint (PCF) calculations represent a single impact category and do not constitute a full Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which covers multiple environmental impact categories across the product life cycle

The platform includes LCA calculation functionality - (e.g. impacts are calculated within the system - multiple impact categories);

LCA frameworks supported

• •ISO 14040 / 14044
• •EU Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)
• •French Ecobalyse / Eco Score

Risk assessment support

Risk assessment functionality indicates whether a platform supports identifying, prioritising, or visualising potential sustainability or compliance risks. Approaches vary significantly between tools and may rely on user-defined criteria, predefined rules, or system-generated indicators. Risk assessments are intended to support prioritisation and decision-making. They do not in themselves constitute legal compliance or due diligence.

No risk assessment functionality;

Value chain actors involved in data exchange

• •Brand / retailer users - (e.g. internal teams managing products, suppliers, or reporting)
• •Tier 1 suppliers - (e.g. cut-and-sew factories, final assemblers)
• •Tier 2 suppliers - (e.g. mills, dye houses, processors)
• •Tier 3+ suppliers - (e.g. raw material processors, fiber producers)
• •Service providers / auditors / certification bodies - (e.g. third-party verification or compliance actors)
• •Consumers or external stakeholders - (e.g. read-only access via QR/DPP)

Consumer-facing access to product data

• •Consumer-facing product views are provided - (e.g. via QR code, URL, or Digital Product Passport interface)
• •External stakeholder access (read-only) - (e.g. regulators, auditors, partners)

Digital Product Passport (DPP) development activity

We provide full support for Digital Product Passports, allowing customers to "publish" (one by one or in bulk) their Life Cycle Assessments into a Digital Product Passport, complete with QR Code generation. See example: https://dpp.carbonfact.com/coyote-denim/MzUyNjkzMjUzMi1mbGlwb3MtZmFjdG9yeS0yMDIw

EU regulatory readiness

Regulatory readiness reflects how a provider monitors and responds to evolving EU sustainability and supply chain regulations. It does not constitute a claim of legal compliance, as regulatory scope and timelines are still evolving.

We create functionality with a base purpose to comply with regulations. We've incorporated the GHG Protocol and PEFCR frameworks fully within the products, generate CSRD ESRS E1 reports automatically, generate DPPS, calculate Eco Scores over entire product inventories and so on.