# Does the Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM) want the pieces we made or the pieces we shipped?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/higg-fem-production-volume-shipped-not-made

The pieces shipped or sold in the year, not the pieces made. Rejects are left out. The form wants it in its own unit, such as kilograms or pieces, and some units may report total Standard Allowed Minutes instead. Dispatch and sales records are what the verifier checks it against.

## What the guide says

- Report the total product shipped or sold in the reporting year. The total should not include rejects.
- Cascale's reason: it is a figure every factory can track, and it discourages excess production, including leftovers, semi-finished goods, samples and rejects.
- The guide admits the limit. Goods made in one calendar year and shipped in the next shift between years. It encourages you to explain any exceptional case to your stakeholders, such as buyers.
- Enter the figure in the form's own unit, for example kilograms, pieces or pairs. If you track another unit, convert it.

## If you have more than one facility type

The guide's example: a cut and sew unit with a printing process ships 100,000 pieces and prints 20,000 pieces. It reports 100,000 under finished product assembler and 20,000 under finished product processing.

## Standard Allowed Minutes

A Standard Allowed Minute (SAM) is the time allowed to make one piece. Where the form allows SAM, you report the total SAM for the year, not the SAM of one product. Multiply each product's SAM by the pieces shipped, then add the products up.

## What the verifier checks it against

- Production, sales and shipment records showing the quantity shipped or sold in the year.
- The guide recommends daily, weekly or monthly summaries in a spreadsheet.

## The guide's SAM example for an apparel unit

- Polo shirt: 15 SAM x 100,000 pieces = 1,500,000
- V-neck shirt: 12 SAM x 500,000 pieces = 6,000,000
- Total SAM for the year: 1,500,000 + 6,000,000 = 7,500,000

Figures are the guide's own example.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel invoices and electricity bills into monthly records, so energy for the same months is in one place to set beside your dispatch figures. The self-serve product does not read dispatch records or fill in the Higg FEM.

- [Garment stitching emissions per piece](https://senseible.earth/answers/garment-stitching-emissions-per-piece)
- [Higg FEM energy and GHG data](https://senseible.earth/answers/higg-fem-energy-and-emissions-data)
- [Higg FEM year: January or April start?](https://senseible.earth/answers/higg-fem-reporting-year-april-march-bills)

Sources: [Cascale, Higg FEM How to Higg Guide 2026 (English)](https://howtohigg.cascale.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Higg-FEM-How-to-Higg-Guide-2026-October-1st-2026-English-Final.pdf)

Last reviewed 2026-11-07. From the 2026 guide (site information question 3). The unit options and SAM availability depend on facility type, so check the form for your own type.