3.3.1. Enter the composition of products

On this page it is explained how you can enter the composition of your products into your Ecochain company account (so link materials to products) manually. If you want to enter compositions of products using Excel, click here

Navigate to the Compositions tab

In the picture below it is shown how you can navigate to the compositions tab. 

Enter a product composition

To enter the composition of different products click the ‘Add materials’ button.

A new window will appear, showing all the materials that have been added in the purchasing tab. In case materials are missing, you can add new materials.

Create the product composition as follows:

  • Enter the amount of necessary materials per product, and adjust the unit if needed;
  • Check the final combined weight of the necessary materials;
  • Click ‘Save changes’.

The total weight of the necessary materials may differ from the weight per unit as entered in the products tab. This could be caused by the difference between gross and net weights. Imagine the following situation: during the production process of a wooden chair cutting losses will occur. To produce the homogenous wooden chair, which weighs 5 kilograms, the production company has to purchase 8 kilograms of wood (gross weight). This means that the weight of the composition is 8 kilograms but the final (net) weight, as entered in the products tab, is 5 kilograms.