Automate your Textile Exchange’s Materials Benchmark Report

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Preparing a Textile Exchange Materials Benchmark Report has traditionally been a time-consuming, manual process. Brands spend weeks gathering raw material data, calculating fiber loss rates, and formatting everything for submission. With Carbonfact’s automated Textile Exchange Materials Benchmark Report, this process is now significantly faster and easier.

Our customers confirm this: brands that previously spent three weeks preparing their submission now complete it in just four hours.

The Challenge: Manual Data Collection & Uptake Calculations

The most difficult part of the Textile Exchange Materials Benchmark is Section II: Materials Portfolio. Here, brands must:

• Consolidate material data from multiple sources (PLM, POs, suppliers).

• Manually calculate uptake – determining how much of each material type is actually used after accounting for fiber loss.

• Align materials with Textile Exchange’s required categories.

• Ensure accuracy in loss rate assumptions and final calculations.

For many brands, this alone can take weeks.

As one customer put it:

“The time-consuming part was the uptake calculations – when I did it myself, the generation of a ‘material basket’ from our PLM data + PO data was 95% of the work easily. Given I had to factor in my own loss rates to get actual uptake, it was a nightmare.”

How Carbonfact Automates Section II: Materials Portfolio

Instead of manually gathering and formatting raw material data, Carbonfact automates the most difficult parts of Textile Exchange’s Materials Benchmark Report – Section II. Carbonfact automates and does the following: 

• Prepares a “material basket” automatically, pulling data directly from Bills of Materials (BOMs).

• Maps materials to Textile Exchange categories, eliminating the need for manual alignment.

• Applies fiber loss rates automatically, using either primary supplier data or industry-standard databases (EF 3.1, EcoInvent).

• Generates a formatted report, so brands can use this to easily input final data into Textile Exchange’s submission tool.

“Having access to a pre-prepared ‘material basket’ through Carbonfact was a huge help, especially since your team mapped the TE materials categories against each one. The actual data entering with your pre-generated materials uptake report is then a pretty simple ~1 hour process.”

Why Brands Should Use It

For brands that have previously submitted Textile Exchange’s Materials Benchmark, the impact of Carbonfact’s automation is clear:

• 90% Faster Reporting: What once took weeks now takes hours.

• Eliminates Manual Calculations: Entering data with a pre-generated uptake report costs about an hour.

• More Accurate Submissions: Eliminates the risk of misclassifying materials or making calculation errors by automating category mapping and fiber loss rate calculations.

Get Started

The Textile Exchange Materials Benchmark Report is available to all Carbonfact customers. If your team is preparing for TE submission, Carbonfact can automate your material breakdown and certification tracking – saving time and reducing errors.