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Product Carbon Footprint with SOLUTION4

Overview: What is the Product Carbon Footprint?

Learn how Solution4 helps companies accurately calculate the carbon footprint of their products, report in compliance with regulations, and reduce emissions in a targeted manner. The Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) represents the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions generated throughout a product’s entire life cycle – from raw material extraction to delivery to the customer.

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Calculating the Product Carbon Footprint?
These are the commonPROBLEMS

Complex supply chains and multiple production stages

Need for accurate, transparent data across the entire value chain

Regulatory requirements under the EU Taxonomy, CSRD, and the Digital Product Passport starting in 2025/26

Time-consuming manual data collection without a unified system

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Solution4
Your PCF Software.
Automated. Transparent. Compliant.
Automated PCF Calculation

Solution4 leverages your ERP data and supplements it with internal databases and external data sources to accurately calculate the CO₂ emissions for each item number and assembly.

Integration of all production stages

All resource lists (bills of materials, work plans, formulas, etc.) for a product are fully included, from raw materials to complex machinery.

Ready for the Digital Product Passport

Our software solution prepares all required PCF data for the Digital Product Passport. Energy and material consumption data are also automatically included.

Open to external data sources

Enhance your data with official databases, industry benchmarks, and supplier information – even from third countries.

Transparent reporting

All calculations and metrics are presented transparently and traceable for each product and production stage.

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Your BENEFITS highlighted

Significant time savings

No manual data collection or assignment – everything is handled automatically by the system.

Minimization of error sources

Through complete data integration and real-time validation.

Total EU-Compliance

Reports and documentation can be generated directly in compliance with the CSRD, EU Taxonomy, and Digital Product Passport.

Competitive advantage

Leverage PCF data as a selling point and showcase your sustainable business practices to customers and partners.

This is how it works in Solution4

  1. Upload or automatic import of item and resource lists from your ERP system into our PCF software.

  2. PCF-calculation based on standardized, EU-compliant model

  3. View and simulate the CO₂ impact for individual items, assemblies, and machinery

  4. Integrated Digital Product Passport and CSRD-Reporting

  5. Export of your data for partners and client communication

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