Release Notes 2023

December 2023

Dive into this special edition of What’s New this last month of the year!

• First, we uncover what traceability completion involves and how calculating it can start your journey toward sustainability.
• Next, our methodology splits the traceability completion into two parts based on knowing the supplier’s name and their country, and categorizes suppliers into three groups: raw materials, materials and article suppliers.
• Finally, BCome’s platform allows you to access the traceability completion for both the entire project and each of the analyzed items.

November 2023

Welcome to the November edition of What’s New. This month we’ve optimized the integration of sustainability insights into e-commerce, fostering better understanding together with the standardization of impacts and savings equivalences.

• First, we have improved the e-commerce template designed for seamless navigation in the Environmental assessment tab and boost language for better savings awareness. Looking forward to seeing it on your website? Discover how to integrate it in three easy steps.
• Next, to help your customers appreciate your sustainability performance better, we’ve added informative tooltips to explain each indicator, Industry standard disclaimer and cradle-to-gate definition ensuring a clearer understanding and offering educational insights.
• In addition, we’ve standardized equivalences across the entire platform, narrowing it down to 8 specific equivalences for the four indicators.
• Finally, we talk about Circular Economy Indicators and how to unleash the power of key metrics to promote circularity in your fashion business.

You can see these changes updated in the LCA Benchmark list, Project Dashboard, Article Dashboard and Eco-calculator directly in the platform.

October 2023

Welcome to the October edition of What’s New. This month is all about PLM dashboard.

• First, as part of our commitment to enhancing supply chain visibility, we’re excited to introduce the new PLM dashboard. Get an overview of your declared project insights, explore your traceability score and transport used, discover the location of manufacturing and material processing, break down the composition and properties of your raw materials and check your traceability performance ranking.
• Next, please note that all insights presented in the PLM dashboard are based on data collected by the collection sampler and may not represent the entire production.
• Finally, it’s time to decode your PLM sheets! Find out all the traceability data that is available in BCome’s platform by articles, materials and suppliers.

For a refresher on all that PLM has to offer, watch this video.

September 2023

Welcome to the September edition of What’s New. Over the past few months, we’ve been working to simplify result sharing and ensure compliance with regulations.

• First, learn how to communicate your collection savings and impact and ensure compliance with regulations. Share your sustainability data effectively and build your green claims clearly and accurately with the BCome’s templates has create to simplify result sharing.
• Second, discover your ultimate guide to navigate fashion industry regulations with The Legislative Pantone Book: ready to simplify sustainability compliance for your fashion business. You can now easily find this document on the BCome platform using the banner at the top.

If you want to know more about the Next Upcoming Legislations check our blog articles.

July 2023

After months of hard work, let’s start the July edition of What’s New discovering how the new PLM tool can completely transform your business’s traceability.

• First, gain a complete understanding of your entire supply chain.
• Next, access traceability data instantly through the platform.
• Finally, identify and seize improvement opportunities in your value chain.

For a full understanding of what PLM can offer, watch this video.

May 2023

Welcome to the May edition of What’s New. Get ready to dive into the updates that give you even more power and oversight over your supply chain.

• First, enhanced supply control by learning the number of life cycle stages traced and the number of suppliers traced.
• Next, find out if your final traceability score is at low, medium or high.
• Finally, we’ve expanded our traceability forms with new data fields that cover wet processes and supplier information. You can now collect more detailed data, including material print process, treatment supplier, and more.

Check the traceability section of the platform to know your score.

April 2023

Let’s welcome the month of April edition of What’s New with a bang! We’re excited to unveil our plans for the coming months. Get ready to take your business to the next level with our innovative product roadmap.

• First, access the What’s Next from the Help Center section of the sidebar.
• Next, take a sneak peek into our upcoming features designed to boost your sustainable development from the latest technologies to enhance your traceability performance to sustainability reporting templates.
• And finally, discover with full transparency which features will enable the growth of your business in the coming months.

March 2023

Dive into this special edition of What’s New this March! We keep optimizing our technology to put at the service of your business all the necessary tools to deal with market updates.

• First, are you a French brand or do you sell in France? We’ve found a fast and effortless solution to ensure compliance with the latest French regulation. So, AGEC law indicators are now available upon request offline to fight against waste and the circular economy.
• Next, the new Water Consumption inventory indicator is now available on demand offline: a new metric that will allow you to know the direct consumption of water throughout the value chain of your products.
• Finally, we keep developing resources to make the traceability of your supply chain easier. Our latest launch is a user-friendly form designed specifically for your suppliers to easily declare everything related to the materials used in your products.

For a full understanding of what these products offer and what benefits they provide, French Legislation Indicators and Water Consumption – access the BCome Product Roadmap.

February 2023

Check out the latest on What’s New this February!

• First, our Home and Sidebar have been updated to offer you an even richer user experience. We’ve added to your Home page to get a broader overview of your projects, references assessed, active custom datasets and your plan status.
• Next, access methodology updates, essential information from the Knowledge Base or featured content from the last modules of the Home dashboard.

January 2023

Enjoy your monthly recap of What’s New in this January Edition.

• Explore how you should capture the environmental savings of your collections compared to other products and take note of practical examples of do’s and don’ts to disclose the data taken.
• Next, we have refined our Eco-Score rating system, contemplating the maximum score assigned to each best practice in the different impact areas: planet, people, transparency and circularity.