Business Central – Start Value Chain in Purchase Process for Scope 3 in Sustainability

Scope 3 is significant for accurate tracking because it represents the majority of emissions, influences business decisions, and aligns with many regulations. Scope 3 is also probably the most complex for measuring because it requires data from multiple sources. For example, from vendors, but also internal operations such as transfers, manufacturing, and so on.

From October 2025, when you post emission values with purchase invoices, Business Central creates a sustainability ledger entry, as usual. It also creates and a new sustainability value entry that references the item ledger entry with the same item ledger entry type, and records details related to the calculated CO2e Amount. This marks the beginning of the emission valuation process, where Business Central tracks all emission changes through other processes. This feature in purchase documents currently applies only to items. It doesn’t yet support item charges for adding additional emissions. Also, this release supports only the Average model of emission calculation.