Suppliers can declare the packaging that goes with what they ship, and you review it alongside the rest of an assessment — covering what each product is packed in, how much that packaging weighs, and proof that food-contact packaging is PFAS-free.
Admin → Library → Packaging holds your reusable items: a shoebox, a polybag, a master carton. Each carries a weight, what it is made of, a manufacturing site, and a type — Per item, which goes around one product, or Per shipment, which is the outer carton. Marking an item as shared makes it available to suppliers.
Once an item has been reported against in an assessment, its physical fields lock and editing offers Duplicate instead, so an item cannot change underneath a supplier who has already declared it. Version history sits in the page header.
In the assessment, suppliers tick the packaging used and fill in quantities, with counts and total weights updating as they type. Where an order isn't packed uniformly, they can declare packaging per product instead of once for the whole order. A part-filled carton counts as a whole carton. When the assessment is tied to a purchase order, quantities come from the order; without one, the supplier states them.
Every item asks two compliance questions: whether heavy metals are within the limit, and whether food touches the packaging directly. Answering yes to food contact asks for a PFAS test report; uploading the PDF pre-fills the lab name and issue date for you to check, and anything you typed yourself is kept.
Under Settings → Configuration, composition codes carry a Packaging toggle and a Family: Paper, Plastic, Wood, Metal or Glass. Family drives reporting — EPR filings are made per family, so grams of PET and grams of HDPE both land under Plastic. Ten standard codes are supplied and locked so they mean the same thing everywhere; you can add your own, and the materials dropdown groups options by family.
Component names carry the same Packaging toggle, which decides whether a name appears in the packaging step or in the bill of materials.
You accept or reject the packaging section like any other. Accepted packaging lands on the product's Bill of Material tab and on the purchase order.
