Business Central – Specify Default Sustainability Values for Various Entities
You can enhance your sustainability tracking by configuring inbound emissions for each item, resource, and general ledger account, and for internal operations such as work or machine centres and transfer journals. This comprehensive setup helps ensure that you accurately monitor and report on your company’s environmental impact.
A new Default Sust. Account field is available in the following tables:
- G/L Account
- Item
- Item Category
- Resource
- Work Center
- Machine Center
If you fill in the Default Sust. Account field in the Item Category table, items assigned to the category inherit the value.
Additionally, there are new Default CO2 Emission, Default CH4 Emission, and Default N2O Emission fields in the Item, Resource, Work Center, and Machine Center tables. You can edit the values in these fields on the Item card if you specify Purchase in the Replenishment System field for the items. Otherwise, Business Central calculates the values. If these fields have a value and you change the selection in the Replenishment System field, a message warns you that the values in the emission fields will be removed.
To use these fields, you must enable them on the Sustainability Setup page. Requiring configuration means less clutter in the user experience for businesses that don’t want to use them.
If you specify a value in the Default Sust. Account field, and you work with purchase documents or general journals, the value transfers to the related Sustainability Account and Emission Amount fields.
If you’d like to discuss more about Business Central’s upcoming changes, or about making the move across to BC, reach out today to Brookland Solutions for a no obligation discussion. Get in touch!
May 7, 2025
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