PCFs that don’t get lost in spreadsheets — but make a real impact.
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Reliable product carbon footprints to GHG Protocol
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Scales across hundreds of products — with CCF building blocks & templates
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Bill of materials import + leadity AI = a fast start and precise answers
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Product carbon footprint software for mid-market businesses
Hundreds of products, one methodology, zero spreadsheet chaos — this is how PCF works in the mid-market
Product carbon footprints become demanding precisely where everyday complexity begins. Calculating reliable PCFs means bringing together data from the supply chain, production, and procurement, allocating energy consumption to individual products, and factoring in specific emission factors for each material, process, or upstream input. With wide product ranges and many variants, the calculation quickly becomes unwieldy and time-consuming.
The 4 benefits of leadity at a glance:
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Communicate your products’ CO₂ values with confidence — with GHG-compliant calculations and meaningful reports
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Map the entire PCF process end to end — from bill of materials import to the finished PCF report, all in one connected system
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Get started quickly and systematically — with guided onboarding, templates, AI, and intelligent data linking
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Identify hotspots for real reduction – — with detailed breakdowns by material, segment, and process step
How leadity makes PCF processes structured and scalable
Mit unserer Product Carbon Footprint Software steuern Sie die Erhebung, Zusammenführung und Berechnung von PCFs in einem durchgängigen System. So lassen sich Produktstrukturen, interne Datengrundlagen und Berechnungslogiken effizient abbilden – für belastbare Ergebnisse über Ihr gesamtes Produktsortiment hinweg.
Bring suppliers into your PCF process — directly in the system, without phone chains or endless email back-and-forth
When reliable product carbon footprints require data from the upstream value chain, IntegrityNext extends leadity’s PCF module with targeted supplier integration. This allows you to actively involve your suppliers in data collection, capture PCF values collaboratively and in a methodologically consistent way, and feed the results directly into leadity for further calculation — without any manual data consolidation.
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Collaborative data collection with suppliers:
Suppliers can easily provide relevant PCF values via a structured platform. This makes supplier engagement more efficient for both sides. -
Low-barrier and discreet integration:
Guided data entry simplifies collaboration — even without deep carbon expertise on the supplier side. At the same time, relevant values can be shared without requiring suppliers to disclose sensitive business data in full. -
Detailed, consistent, and reliable PCF data:
The structured collection process supports a methodologically consistent data foundation across different suppliers. This produces reliable PCF values that can be used directly in leadity for further calculation — with no manual data consolidation required.
More than just product carbon footprint software
Additional leadity features for your climate and sustainability management
Das PCF-Modul ist nur eines von vielen integrierten Modulen der leadity Software. Von der Klimabilanz über Dekarbonisierung bis hin zu Projektmanagement, smarten Automatisierungen und inhaltlicher Unterstützung: leadity verbindet zentrale Funktionen für belastbare Product Carbon Footprints mit einem ganzheitlichen Klima- und Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement. So wird aus einer PCF Software eine integrierte Lösung für den Mittelstand.
Product Carbon Footprints — done right
Manage PCF, CCF, and customer documentation efficiently with leadity — without the extra effort
Join our webinar (German only) to learn how to manage PCF, CCF, and other customer-facing documentation in a structured way, avoid common mistakes, and deliver reliable evidence — without starting from scratch every time.
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FAQs on product carbon footprint
Questions and answers about product carbon footprints
Want to learn more about product carbon footprints or how to calculate them with leadity? Send us your questions about PCF data, supply chains, or product-level calculation at kontakt@leadity.de
The product carbon footprint (PCF) describes the greenhouse gas emissions that can be attributed to an individual product or service across its lifecycle. Depending on the scope, this includes emissions from raw materials, upstream inputs, production, transport, use, and end-of-life disposal.
The goal of a product carbon footprint is to make the climate impact of a product transparent, comparable, and traceable — typically expressed as a figure in kg CO₂ equivalents . This helps companies better understand where emissions arise at the product level, and gives them a solid data foundation for conversations about decarbonisation with customers, suppliers, and internal teams.
For manufacturing companies in particular, the PCF is becoming increasingly relevant — as sustainability requirements now need to be demonstrated not only at the company level, but at the product level too.
A product carbon footprint is calculated by systematically capturing the relevant greenhouse gas emissions of a product and attributing them to a defined functional unit. The basis for this is recognised methodological standards such as the GHG Protocol and, in many cases, ISO 14067.
In practice, the calculation typically involves several steps:
- Define the product and scope
- Identify relevant emission sources
- Collect activity data and emission factors
- Consolidate primary and secondary data
- Calculate and document emissions
The data foundation is particularly demanding. Companies often need to consolidate data from multiple sources — such as procurement, production, energy consumption, and the supply chain. Where reliable primary data is not available, average values from databases are used to fill the gaps. This is precisely why calculating a product carbon footprint without structured processes is often time-consuming and difficult to scale.
A good product carbon footprint software helps you capture this data consistently, process it in line with recognised standards, and use it efficiently across multiple products.
leadity helps companies calculate product carbon footprints efficiently, in a structured way, and in line with recognised standards. The software makes it easy to capture relevant PCF data centrally, consolidate it consistently, and use it across products and product categories.
Companies benefit in particular from:
- a structured data foundation for PCF calculation
- the reuse of existing climate data
- efficient management of calculation processes
- scalable use across the entire product portfolio
This turns a complex one-off calculation into a reliable software-driven process that reduces manual effort and makes calculating product carbon footprints significantly easier in day-to-day work.
The corporate carbon footprint (CCF) and the product carbon footprint (PCF) look at emissions from two different perspectives.
The CCF measures the greenhouse gas emissions of an entire organisation — covering, for example, emissions from energy consumption, sites, mobility, purchased services, and other Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 categories.
The PCF, by contrast, focuses on the emissions of a single product or service across its defined lifecycle.
In short:
- CCF = company level
- PCF = product level
The two are closely connected, however. Product carbon footprint calculations frequently draw on data from the company’s corporate carbon footprint — such as energy consumption from production or emissions from upstream processes. This is precisely why bringing the corporate carbon footprint and the product carbon footprint together in a single software solution is so valuable: it reduces duplication and creates a more consistent data foundation.
Supply chain data is particularly important for reliable product carbon footprints because a large share of product-specific emissions often does not originate within the company itself, but further upstream — in raw materials, upstream inputs, materials, and external process steps.
One of the biggest challenges in product carbon footprints is the availability of accurate emission data from suppliers. Without this data, companies must rely more heavily on average values or generic databases. This is often a sensible and necessary approach, but it typically results in less precise outcomes.
Reliable PCFs therefore benefit from:
- the most specific primary data possible
- consistent data collection
- structured involvement of relevant stakeholders along the value chain
- clear attribution of data to products and product categories
With IntegrityNext and leadity, companies can actively involve suppliers in PCF data collection, capture data collaboratively and consistently, and feed results directly into leadity for further use — without any manual data consolidation.
The stronger the data foundation from the supply chain, the more meaningful the product carbon footprint becomes — both for internal analysis and for customers, tenders, or product-level sustainability documentation.
Product carbon footprint software is particularly worthwhile for companies that manufacture or distribute physical products and need to make their climate performance transparent not only at the company level, but also at the product level. It is especially relevant for companies with complex supply chains, large product ranges or product categories, significant B2B pressure, and a high relevance of upstream emissions — for example where large customers or regulatory requirements demand additional transparency at the product level. Typical examples include automotive suppliers, grocery retail suppliers, and companies in the beverage, food, and consumer goods industries.
For manufacturing mid-market businesses in particular, PCF software makes sense when product carbon footprints need to be not just calculated once, but efficiently managed, updated, and scaled across the entire product portfolio. This is precisely where software proves its strength: it reduces manual effort, creates consistent processes, and turns complex PCF requirements into a structured, team-ready workflow.
