Product

This article covers the following topics:

Overview
Product list
- Add product
- Other actions
Product details
- Manufacturing
- Distribution
- Use phase
- End of life
Manage variations
- Add product variations

Overview

Products contain details based on which the supply chain data is mapped, and footprint is calculated. The product screen provides a summary of all the products that have been added to the system. Each product has its details, supply chain and footprint linked to it. You can access these through the list screen that gets created after you add the products. If your products have variations, you can manage them from here.

Product list

The list page contains all the products added to the system. It serves as a central hub for organizing and managing your products.

Category: Primary classification of the product based on the type of products. Example, Apparel, Automobile, Food & beverages
Subcategory: Classification of products into groups with similar characteristics. Example, subcategory for Apparel will be T-shirt, Jeans, Pants, shorts etc
Style: Styles to the subcategory. Example, style for a T-shirt will be long sleeves T-shirt, polo etc
Key Components: Primary components that go into the production of a product.
Material Composition: The percentage of each raw material used in the production of a component
Variations: Number of variations of the same product differentiated by its size, color or length
Tier 1 Suppliers: Suppliers who are involved in the making of your final product. These are the suppliers you have a direct relationship with
Supply chain: View supply chain of the product
Footprint: The footprint icon for the product (if available) exists as a green leaf icon

Add product

Products are added to the system individually or in bulk. When adding a product individually, click on 'add product' from the product list screen and provide basic product details, manufacturing, distribution, use phase and end of life details.

Note: Once a product has been added, clicking on the product from the listing screen opens up the product information. Here, you can navigate to the supply chain screen, supplier map screen and footprint screen using hot buttons found on the left panel

Other actions

Edit product: Update or modify details of your product
Manage variations: Add and manage variations for your product. This is visible only if the product type has been selected as "variant"
Duplicating a product: You can create a duplicate copy of an existing product. This is helpful in creating similar products with minor modifications, saving time and effort in data entry.
Deleting a product: You can delete a product from the system; executing this action will remove the product from the system.
Calculate footprint: Calculates footprint of the product
Assign supply chain: Assigns a default or existing supply chain to the product

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Product details

Click on 'add product' in the product listing screen to reach the basic product info screen.

Here, the first step is to provide product related details. There are two types of details required:
- Generic details include: Product image, Product type (single/variant), Name, Code, Style, Department, Year, Season
- Mandatory identifiers include: Product category, subcategory and product weight

Product weight is automatically added based on the above details. This default weight is calculated as per the Green Story average.
Based on the category and subcategory, our system will intelligently select a template supply chain and assign it to the product.
You can assign Green Story default template supply chains to your product. The default template supply chain is configured by Green Story for each subcategory.
You can also assign an existing customized supply chain by searching your supply chain library

After selecting the supply chain, identify the correct component and composition for your product by clicking on the replace button.

Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the first stage in the lifecycle of a product. It contain the processes involved in cradle to gate (raw material to assembly). It captures the component level details, suppliers involved and process used to create the product. In the manufacturing screen, you can find the summary of all the entities involved in this stage. Learn more

Distribution
The second stage in the lifecycle is distribution. This involves transportation of product from point of assembly to consumer. This is further divided into two segments. The first is assembly to warehouse, where you can capture the transportation from assembled products to warehouses that store the products. The second segment is warehouses to consumers, where you can capture the transportation from warehouses to consumers through online and offline channels. Learn more

Use phase
The third stage is use phase which captures the use of the product by consumers in different geographies. Learn more

End of life
The fourth stage is the end of life which captures the programs you have taken up for disposal of the product. These programs can be recycle, reuse, take back or municipal disposal. Learn more

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Manage variation

Collection of products that may have the same characteristics but differ based on their color, size or length are variations. If a product has variation, you can add them by providing the product attributes such as size, colour and length. Each attribute requires values and unit of measurement that correspond to the selected attribute.

Add product variations

To add variation, click on “manage variation” from the product action list. This is going to be visible only if the product type selected is "variant".

If you are adding variations for the first time:
- Select attribute such as size, colour, length; which is the variant characteristic of the product
- Input value associated with the attribute. For example, size attribute will have values like small, medium, large.
- Select the unit of measurement corresponding to the value.
If you are adding the variation to an existing set of products, after you click on manage variation, you will see a table of existing variations with an option to “edit” on top.
Clicking on edit, will allow you to add and edit new and existing variations.