After creating a report, whether for yourself or a customer, understanding the data within is crucial. Our reporting feature helps you get a clear understanding of the sales data and the associated impact it represents. The report itself displays the impact over a specific period for selected products, multiplied by their order volume. Below you will find a breakdown of each section within the reporting feature, along with what you can use it for.
Overall Sales and Impact numbers
At the top, you will find numbers that represent all the sales data currently uploaded to your Pickler platform. Just like in the Comparison tab, these can either be adjusted to measure, Carbon footprint or Eco-costs, as well as Per product and Per kg, along with a certain date range. From here, the numbers will adjust themselves to match your preferences.
Going left to right they are:
Total carbon footprint sold or Total eco-cost sold. This is the impact for each product, multiplied by the total sales.
Weighted Average Carbon Footprint or Weighted Average Eco-costs. This shows the average carbon footprint or eco-costs for one unit of all products sold. It accounts for the sales volume of each product, giving a clear picture of the overall impact. It's calculated by taking the carbon footprint of each product and adjusting it based on how many of those product were sold. Products with higher sales have more influence on the average, while less-sold products contribute less. For example: If a product with 0,23 kg CO₂ per piece is sold 1,000 times and another with 0,11 kg CO₂ per piece is sold 100 times, the average will lean more towards the higher-impact product because it’s sold more often.
Average carbon footprint or Average Eco-costs. This number doesn't consider sales volume and treats all products equally, regardless of how many are sold.
Sales Overview. Here, you will get an overview of the total weight of your uploaded products, the total number of products listed in your sales data, as well as a ratio of how many products are incomplete (and therefore without an Eco Score).
Your Reporting Dashboard, Visualized
Below you will see all the overall sales and impact numbers visually represented. Our enhanced Reporting dashboard provides you with a comprehensive overview of your customer's impact and sales data, offering you unique insights:
Interactive Visualizations: Analyze data across Sales and Purchase data, like Customers, Product categories, Suppliers, and Lifecycle stages, as well as Impact Data Per Lifecycle Stage, such as Material, Production Method, Production Location, and Transport.
Drill Down into Specific Data Points: If you want to learn more about any specific segment (fx. a specific Customer, Country, or Material), simply click the element in question to isolate it. You will see the segmented data, along with the adjusted graphs, for deeper insight.
Your products are always there: Whether you are viewing all your data or only segmented parts of it, you will always find a complete product sales data overview at the bottom of the page. This overview will contain the Product Name, ID, Eco-Score, Volume, and Orders, along with all the relevant sales data connected to each product, including ESRS 1-5 data.
Saving and sharing
If you want to save and share your report, then this works the same way that saving and sharing a Comparison would: Saving your report allows you to revisit it whenever you want. Simply click the "Save" button in the top right corner to give your report a name, and click save - it is then stored under "Saved reports" and available for future use. If you want to share your report, you must first save it before you're able to share it with others.
Using the weighted average metric
In the above, we highlight the weighted average metric. The benefit of the weighted average is that it adjusts for what you sell the most. If you sell a large number of low-impact, sustainable products, your weighted average will drop, even if your total carbon footprint sold might increase (simply because you sold more). This makes the weighted average a great metric to track how sustainable your product mix is, regardless of total sales volume. It helps highlight progress toward selling more sustainable products, even when overall sales grow.
Sales volume and impact data
As mentioned, this table provides detailed sustainability and sales data for various packaging products. Here's what the data tells you:
Product-Specific Information: Each product is listed with its name, ID, category (e.g., boxes, pouches), and volume sold, helping to identify key products.
Eco-score: The eco-score per product.
Carbon Footprint: the total greenhouse gas emissions (in CO₂-eq kg) associated with each product based on the volume sold.
Eco-Costs: the total environmental costs in eco-costs, based on the volume sold.
Impact Categories: Specific impacts are broken down into Nature, Human Health, and Material Scarcity, showing how the product affects different aspects of the environment and society.
Order Data: The "Orders" column indicates how many orders were placed for each product, linking environmental impact with sales activity.
ESRS 1-5 data for CSRD
Most recently, we have added ESRS 1-5 data to your product and sales data overview, at the bottom of the reporting page.
ESRS 1-5 are the European Sustainability Reporting Standards under the CSRD, which outline what companies must report about their sustainability efforts.
ESRS 1-2 focus on general disclosures, like governance, strategy, and risks.
ESRS 3 covers environmental data, such as carbon footprint, energy use, and waste.
ESRS 4 looks at social aspects, including employee and community impacts.
ESRS 5 addresses governance, ethics, and risk controls.
As CSRD is rolled out, more and more companies will need this data. Pickler enables you to provide this data, allowing your customers to include accurate lifecycle and environmental data in their own CSRD submissions, strengthening relationships and building trust. Sharing this data isn’t just about compliance; it’s a way to demonstrate transparency and support customers in meeting their sustainability goals.