Pickler

Learn how to create products, map your data to IDEMAT, manage larger imports/exports, navigate the products overview, and integrate everything via the API.

Working with product data in Pickler

Learn which data matters most for LCA in Pickler, how to handle missing data, and how defaults help you calculate impact with confidence.

What Data Can You Enter and What to Focus on

How to link your primary product data to IDEMAT secondary data to complete your footprint calculation.

Map Your Data to the IDEMAT Database

In this article we go through how you find your way in Pickler from the products page.

Managing your products from the products page

Set up product, pack, case, and pallet layers for accurate impact calculations.

How packaging layers work in Pickler

Guide on using Draft and Verified statuses in Pickler: when to apply each, and verification criteria.

Draft and verified product status

How Pickler tracks data quality and how better inputs make your footprint more accurate, reliable and audit-ready.

How to Improve Your Data Quality

How to work with the products overview page

Understanding data in Pickler   

How to set up a product and understand the footprint steps in the sidebar

General product data and product setup

Your product’s impact starts with its materials. Add accurate materials, weights, and processing for the best results.

Footprint data: Materials and Processing

Packaging, used to ship, transport, or sell your product. By including it in your calculation, you get a complete picture of the total environmental impact.

Footprint data: Additional packaging

Transport captures all movements from processing to your warehouse, helping your footprint reflect the real journey of your product.

Footprint data: Transport

End of Life captures how your product is treated after use. Pickler applies regional recycling, incineration, composting, and landfill data automatically.

Footprint data: End of life

Material composition and substance information required for PPWR and DPP compliance, covering recycled, biobased, hazardous, and certified content for transparency and conformity reporting.

Compliance data: Content & substances

Packaging design and material performance data required under PPWR and DPP to demonstrate recyclability, compostability, minimisation, and reuse compliance across the product lifecycle.

Compliance data: Circularity & end of life

The best way to learn how Pickler works. Full guide of the product form, including general data, materials, components, transport, end of life, and compliance fields.

Creating products using the form

After you fill out- or import your products, you map your input data to the values in Pickler to start your calculations. Here's how.

How to map your data

How to map your data to IDEMAT secondary data, what to map, and where to get help if materials are missing.

Mapping your data to IDEMAT database

Bulk management of product data, footprint calculation inputs, and Digital Product Passport readiness

Import product data using spreadsheets

Bulk edit your products using export data functionality

Export product data

Common usecases importing data

How to manage larger datasets using spreadsheet import — what it is and how to use it.

Create and update products using spreadsheet 

Sync product and footprint data with our API

Guides on what the API is and how to integrate your product data automatically.

Integrate Using the API

Common data questions and guides

Learn how to map materials to the right IDEMAT datasets using practical Fast-Track LCA modeling best practices.

Guide: How to find the right material in IDEMAT

How do we deal with different thicknesses of foil in Pickler? And does it affect our results, since the scores are compared per kg?

Learn how to structure recycled, virgin, bio-based, and multilayer materials correctly in Pickler for accurate calculations.

Structuring data for recycled, virgin, or bio-based materials the correct way

Can I submit new materials to IDEMAT?

Why can’t I select post-consumer (PCR) or post-industrial (PIR) recycled materials separately?

Questions and guides about materials and using IDEMAT 

Materials and IDEMAT

Learn how to manually calculate land, sea, rail, and air transport distances in Pickler.

Calculate transport distances manually

How automatic calculation works, what the risks are and best practices.

How to use automatic route calculation

Learn why raw material location, transport, and energy are already included in LCA data—and shouldn’t be added separately.

Why you can't enter raw material location or transport in Pickler

Correct loads and transport movements by adjusting the distance.

How to correct partial loads in transport

Should I model transport to every customer, and how do I keep it manageable?

Common questions about modeling transport in Pickler

Transport

Learn how to add a custom production method and energy use when needed.

How to use energy allocation to enter energy use per product

Why to only add energy that was physically consumed at the processing location

Adding Primary Energy Data the correct way: Location-Based vs Market-Based

Questions and answers on using specific energy data in Pickler

Processing energy

Pickler uses IDEMAT’s public End-of-Life data to apply realistic regional recycling, incineration and landfill percentages to your packaging.

Where can I find end of life region sources that Pickler uses?

Why we locking the end of life stage for inventory products protects you from greenwashing.

How to add primary end of life data

Do You Need Separate Products per customer I sell to ?

Common questions on end of life data in Pickler

End of life

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