Upload goods received (upstream transport & distribution)

Before you start

You need an Editor role in your Dcycle organization.

Steps

Step 1

Click “Data” in the left navigation.

Step 2

Click “Categories”.

Step 3

Open the “Goods received” category.

Step 4

Click “Add data” to open the upload options.

Step 5

You can add a shipment manually, or bulk-upload a CSV/Excel template for many at once.

Step 6

Choose “Upload goods”.

Step 7

If you don’t have a file yet, download a template and fill it in: origin and destination (city + country, or postcode), weight, mode (road, sea, air, rail), shipment date, and optionally vehicle/vessel type and distance. Many freight forwarders (Maersk, DHL, Kuehne+Nagel) publish GLEC-aligned emission reports you can upload directly instead.

Step 8

Drag your file onto the panel or click to browse. Dcycle parses it and moves to the “Columns” step, where each column of your file is matched to a Dcycle field.

Step 9

Check that every template column was matched to the right field — fix any mismatch with the dropdowns — and continue.

Step 10

If a “Values” step appears, it shows how the values in your file (transport mode, etc.) map to Dcycle’s accepted values. Review the suggestions and adjust anything that wasn’t recognised.

Step 11

Click “Validate & continue” to validate the rows.

Step 12

The “Review” step summarises valid rows and errors. Fix any flagged cell right here, or filter with “Show errors only” to work through them.

Step 13

When everything looks right, submit. Dcycle calculates the distance from origin/destination if you didn’t provide it, and applies the GLEC-aligned factor for the transport mode.

Step 14

Shipping goods out to customers instead? That’s a separate category — “Goods shipped” — with the same fields and upload flow, but only counts here if your customer (not you) pays the carrier; otherwise it stays in this “Goods received” / upstream category.