Transport captures all transport movements from the processing location (gate) to the final destination, such as your warehouse. This ensures your footprint reflects the real journey your product takes after production. Pickler supports both manual and automatic route calculation so you can enter transport data with the level of detail you have available.
Data focus: Transport impact can vary depending on supplier location
Transport impact depends on where your supplier is located, but suppliers often don’t share their exact factory address or full route. That’s completely fine — you usually only need the country or city. For footprint calculations, don’t chase perfect precision. If you’re close to the real distance, your result remains reliable.
Handling data gaps: Using defaults or automatic transport calculations
If you don’t know the exact distance or route, you can:
Enable Automatic Mode — Pickler calculates a route based on the locations you provide. Always verify the results.
Use default distances — when locations and details are missing, you can let Pickler applies conservative values so your calculation can still proceed. This is 20.000km by container ship and 1.000km by truck.
Adding your transport data in the form
Step 1: Transport unit
The Transport Unit section only appears if you did not add a Pallet layer in Additional Packaging.
If pallet data is already provided, Pickler already knows the weight and dimensions of your transport unit, so this section is hidden.
If shown, you can enter:
Gross transport unit weight (kg)
Transport unit dimensions (height × length × width in cm)
Pickler uses this information to calculate loading efficiency and transport volume.
Step 2: Add processing locations
To avoids duplicate work and ensures consistent data across your product form, you can add product processing locations you entered earlier in the Materials & Processing stage.
Click Use processing locations from step 2 to automatically fill the From field of your first transport leg
Step 3: Adding more legs to complete your route
Click Add leg to if you need to add more transport movements.
Adding transport to customer
Pickler’s product footprint ends at your warehouse, so if you want to include delivery to a customer, you’ll need a separate product for that customer. Then simply add an extra transport leg: warehouse → customer, select the transport type, and enter the distance.
If the transport load to your customer is different from the load used from supplier to warehouse, you can compensate by increasing or decreasing the distance to reflect this lower efficiency, since a partially filled truck creates more emissions per product.
Read more on how to add transport to your customer
Step 4: Add locations, transport method and distance
By default, transport data is added manually by entering the locations, method, and distance yourself:
From location
To location
Transport method (truck, sea, train, air, etc.)
Distance in km
Toggle Automatic mode when you know the locations but not the distances. Pickler checks whether a land route exists. If it does, the distance is calculated using Google Maps with a truck + trailer as the default method. When a land route isn’t possible, Pickler builds a combined land–sea route:
When using automatic mode, existing manual distances will be overwritten.
Always review automatic calculations
Distances are calculated automatically and may not reflect your real route. Always verify results