Based on your mapped data, Pickler predicts additional data that is needed to calculate the environmental impact of your packaging. This data can always be changed by you.
It's meant to help you speed up your data onboarding and help you out if you don't know a production process.
1. Data that Pickler predicts
Production method
Pickler uses data on production processes from the IDEMAT LCI database. We predict the process based on your mapped materials. You can always change these production processes to another production method from IDEMAT, or replace them with custom data.
Energy mix
Pickler uses data for the energy mix of the production from IDEMAT LCI database. It’s predicted based on the production location of your materials/components. It can be replaced by custom energy data.
Transport
Pickler automatically calculates the distance and predicts transport method, when locations are mapped. This works as follows:
Pickler checks if the transport is over land. If so, we use "Truck with trailer" transport method with market average impact data from IDEMAT and the distance to calculate emissions.
If over land isn't possible with your locations, we assume transport is over sea.
How Pickler automatically calculates transport over sea:
Pickler calculates the distance over land to the nearest container port with truck and trailer.
Next, Pickler calculate the route over sea to port closest to the next location, using emission data for a container ship.
Then we calculate the route over over land to the final destination, using truck and trailer again.
The distance, locations and way of transport can be changed by the user using the product form or import functionalities.