Creating and Editing a New Formula in Latis

In this article, you'll find step-by-step instructions on how to build, edit or duplicate a product, view your product's impact and update purchasing volumes.

For a deeper dive, read more on understanding the impact of your product and tools for measuring, reducing, reporting and communicating product impact.

Create a New Product

1. Select "Create New"

From the home page, click on the “Create New” button.

2. Name your formula and choose a workspace

You will be prompted to name your formula and choose a workspace. Your products are organized into workspaces, which could be brands or categories, depending how you choose to categorize them internally. Your organization defined your workspaces when you first joined Latis.

Workspaces also become important for benchmarking and portfolio-level analyses after you have created your products.

3. Add ingredients

Once you've selected your workspace, you can start to search and select ingredients from HowGood's extensive database of food ingredients.

4. Adjust sourcing locations, standards and inclusion percentages

HowGood will assign default sourcing locations for your ingredients, based on our analysis of import/export data. You can refine your product's impact assessment by adjusting the sourcing locations, standards and inclusion percentages to better reflect the specifics of your formula and sourcing practices.

5. Save your formula

Once you're done editing your formula, select Save new formula from the top right corner.

View Your Product's Impact

You can now view your product's impact across a range of metrics, including your Product Carbon Footprint, the HowGood Impact Score and any of HowGood's core social and environmental metrics.

You can "Favorite" any of the metrics from the Overview, Carbon, Nature of People tabs to display in your Favorites tab.

You can also add columns to the Formula Details table to display ingredient-level impact on any metric.

Edit Your Product

Explore ingredient improvements by clicking into any ingredient and either editing its inclusion %, changing the sourcing standards or location, or swapping it out for a different ingredient.

Select the Replace ingredient icon next to the ingredient to search for more sustainable alternatives.

You can search for standard ingredients from HowGood's sustainability database, or vendor verified materials from the HowGood Material Directory, which contains materials from 5000+ suppliers.

Duplicate a Product

You can create a copy of a product or material in Latis so that you can innovate on it and compare impact between products.

Select Edit formula details from the top right corner of the product you'd like to duplicate.
Make any changes to the product (if applicable)
Scroll to the top and click the Save button and click Save as new formula

4. Rename the product and update the workspace (if applicable)

Update Purchasing Volumes

You can create a copy of a product or material in Latis so that you can innovate on it and compare impact between products.

Select Edit formula details from the top right corner of the product you'd like to duplicate.
Make any changes to the product (if applicable)
Scroll to the top and click the Save button and click Save as new formula

4. Rename the product and update the workspace (if applicable)

You can update the purchasing volume of your product in metric tons per year ordered (MT/year).

Select Edit formula details from the top right corner of the product or material you'd like to edit
Scroll down to the Other Details section at the bottom of the page and select the Workspaces tab.
Enter the Metric tons/year ordered.