How to upload product individually

This article talks about the steps involved in adding your product individually

Step 1: Add product details and assign supply chain
Step 2: Provide manufacturing details
Step 3: Provide distribution details
Step 4: Provide use phase details
Step 5: Provide end of life details

Navigate to product form

Click on the “Product” tab in the left navigation menu
A secondary navigation opens up. Click on "Product"
On the right, you will find the “add new” button. Clicking on it would open the product form
Product form is divided in five steps; Product details, Manufacturing, Distribution, Use phase and End of life.

The stepper on top of the form will help you keep track of your progress.

Step 1: Add product details and assign supply chain

Product details consists of generic details about your product with few mandatory identifiers to help the system create a template supply chain for the product.

1. Generic details include: Product image, Product type, Name, Code, SKU, Style, Department, Year, Season, Weight

2. Mandatory identifiers include: Product category and sub category

You can understand more about these fields in the product glossary

3. Next, identify and assign a supply chain to your product. You can do this in two ways:

Assigning an existing supply chain to your product
- Click on "Assign a supply chain to the product"
- A pop-up opens up providing a list of existing supply chain you've customized for your products. You can search for your supply chain using the filter or search bar
- To get a quick glimpse of the supply chain details, click on the "downward arrow" next to the name. Alternatively, click on the "view" button to see all the components and suppliers of that supply chain
- Once you are ready with your supply chain, click on "Use this" button
- You will be prompted to confirm the selection with an option to mark the selected chain as default.
  Marking supply chain as default would help auto assign the supply chain to future products.
- After the confirmation, you will be taken to the next step, where you can see your supply chain details
Assigning a system generated template supply chain to your product
- Click on "save" below the form
  Based on the category and sub category of the product, our system will intelligently select a template supply chain and assign it to the product.
- You will be prompted to confirm the selection
- After the confirmation, you will see a "Supply chain" section containing a list of primary components of that supply chain
- You can customize the following details of a component:
  - Replace component with an existing one from the library
  - Define or replace the component's composition
  - Select key differentiators of that component
  - Provide component's weight
  - Add a new component
- Once the customization is done, head over to the next step by clicking on the "Manufacturing" button on the top right or bottom right corner

Step 2: Provide manufacturing details

Manufacturing details are the operations or processes required to produce a product. On Green Story platform, manufacturing consists of supply chain from Cradle to Gate i.e raw material production to assembly.

Once you land on the manufacturing tab, you will see summaries for all the components, supplier, process and packaging that make up the end product.

These summaries are automatically created based on the supply chain you selected in the previous step. If you want to link another supply chain, you can do that using the "link now" button on the far right of the supply chain name.

Next, ensure the data for your components, supplier and processes is accurate. You can add new components, link suppliers and add processes.

For each component, you can:

1. Update component name and code, provide its composition, input component details and key

differentiators.

2. Replace component with an existing one from the library

3. View processes

4. Delete the component

For each supplier, you can:

1. Unlink and replace it with a new supplier

2. Change the production share

When you are ready, head over to the next step by clicking on the "Distribution" button on the top right or bottom right corner.

Step 3: Provide distribution details

Distribution comprises of transportation involved in sending your product from assembly to consumer. On Green Story platform, this is divided in two legs:

1. Transportation between assembly and warehouse,

2. Transportation between warehouse and consumers

Transportation details are required for the system to calculate the emissions of the entire product journey (assembly to consumer)

Assembly to warehouse:

1. Identify the country where your distribution takes place

Click on "add distribution" on the assembly to warehouse table
Select the country where the distribution takes place.
Input the percentage of products received by that country
If there is more than one country, continue to add them until the distribution percentage sums up to 100%.
Click on the "next" button in the bottom or top right corner.
You will find the selected countries listed as tabs on top of the form.
Next, Identify warehouse details for each country

2. Identify the warehouses (drop location) which receives the product

Select the warehouse located in the country
Input the percentage of products received by the warehouse
If there is more than one warehouse, continue to add them until the distribution percentage sums up to 100%.
Click on the "next" button in the bottom or top right corner.
You will find the warehouses listed on the left panel.
For each warehouse, identify the facility that transports the product, how they transport it, what packaging material is used and what are the operations carried out at the warehouse.

3. Identify the facilities (pickup location) which transports the product to the warehouse

Under the shipping tab, select the facility that transport products to the warehouse.
Input the percentage of products sent to the warehouse
If there is more than one facility, continue to add them until the distribution percentage sums up to 100%.
Click on "save and add transportation" button
You will find the selected facilities listed in the table with a transportation split column containing the default mode of transportation for each facility.

Default mode of transportation is calculated

4. Define the transportation mode used by the facility (pickup location) to send products to the warehouse (drop location)

Click on "update transportation" button in the last column of the facility table.
A pop-up shows up containing the primary mode of transportation and its leg details.
Customize the details as per the actual data and click on "save".
Next, click on "Packaging" button.

5. Provide packaging details used in transporting the product

Under the packaging tab, provide details around the category and sub category of your packaging
Number of products that can fit in one packaging
Weight of the packaging
You can add multiple packaging for a product

6. Click on "Preview and submit" button on the top or bottom right corner

7. Once everything looks good, click on "submit" to add the distribution details

8. You will come back to the main form, where you will find the details you added above under "assembly to warehouse" section.

9. Move on to identify transportation details between warehouse and consumer.

Warehouse to consumer:

Click on "Add distribution" on the warehouse to consumer table
Input the percentage of products sold online and in store
Input percentage of products returned online and in store
Click on "In-store" tab on the left
Under the shipping tab, define:
1. The mode of transportation
2. Average distance between the warehouse and retail stores
Under the packaging tab, define:
1. The category and sub category of your packaging
2. Number of products that can fit in one packaging
3. Weight of the packaging
Next, click on "Online" tab on the left
Under the shipping tab, define:
1. The mode of transportation between warehouse to consumer and retail to consumer
2. Average distance between the warehouse to consumer and retail to consumer
Under the packaging tab, define:
1. The category and sub category of your packaging
2. Number of products that can fit in one packaging
3. Weight of the packaging

10. Click on "Preview and submit" button on the top or bottom right corner

11. Once everything looks good, click on "submit" to add the distribution details

12. You will come back to the main form, where you will find the details you added above under "warehouse to consumer" section.

When you are ready, head over to the next step by clicking on the "Use phase" button on the top right or bottom right corner.