The figures are designed to be practical and specific: they reflect the goods purchased, the materials used, and the transport involved, rather than a single aggregated number that only appears in annual reporting.
Our aim is to provide greater transparency and to support customers who are already measuring or reporting carbon impacts as part of their internal processes or sustainability work.
Supporting the sustainability goals behind every PO
Most of a product’s climate impact is decided before it reaches a store: materials, composition, and the journey from factory to destination. Fashion and beauty brands cannot manage what they cannot see at the level they place orders.
Putting product and transport carbon on the invoice does three things at once.
It makes emissions visible in the same place as price and quantity.
It gives clients a consistent data trail for their own Scope 3 reporting.
It turns each shipment into a decision point; materials, mode, routing; instead of a number that arrives too late to change.
This is how we support clients to reach their climate goals with the same operational data we already use to build and ship their products.
What clients now see
Each invoice shows two totals, in kgCO₂e:
Product emissions: the carbon associated with the materials in the goods on that invoice
Transport emissions: the carbon associated with moving those goods on the linked shipment
Together, these figures help clients support their internal carbon tracking efforts, compare products and shipment options, and identify opportunities to reduce emissions through material and logistics decisions.
How we calculate it
Product and transport are calculated separately, from the data already present in our item master, bills of materials, materials libraries, and freight files.
Product emissions
Each finished item is broken into its components, and each component into its materials.
For every material we use:
order quantity × BOM quantity × item weight × material share × emission factor
Weights come from the item master. Material shares come from the composition of each component. Emission factors come from our materials database. The result is a product total for the invoice, built from the same BOM we use to manufacture.
That level of detail matters. Two products that look similar on a packing list can have very different footprints once acetate, paper, metal, and polymer are weighted separately. Clients can see which part of the product is doing the work, and where a material or design change would count.
Transport emissions
Transport is calculated from the shipment behind the invoice:
number of cartons × gross weight per carton × distance × mode-specific emission factor
*adjusted if a sustainable aviation or marine fuel (SAF/SMF) offset is applied on that shipment
Distance and mode come from the actual routing; for example a sea movement from China to Antwerp. The emission factor is year- and mode-specific. If SAF or SMF is enabled on the cargo file, the offset is reflected in the figure on the invoice. If it is not, the calculation stays unadjusted. Nothing is hidden in the average.
Product and freight are different levers. Clients should be able to pull them separately.
Part of a wider sustainability programme
Invoice-level carbon is one more place our sustainability work shows up in day-to-day operations, not only in a year-end narrative.
Our role is to help clients meet their goals; science-based targets, incoming disclosure rules, and the commercial need to know which products and routes are heavier than others.
*A complete account of our sustainability commitments and progress is available in our latest Sustainability Report.
