Business Central – Use Sustainability Scope 3 Value Chain in Manufacturing

This feature allows you to calculate CO2e for finished goods by using raw material emissions data from purchase documents and adding emissions from manufacturing processes.

To facilitate this, the new CO2e per Unit and Total CO2e fields are available on the following pages

• Production BOM
• Routing
• Components
• Operations
• Production Order Lines
• Consumption
• Output Journals

On the Production BOM page, these fields get their values from the emission details of items. On the Routing page, they’re based on emission details from the Work and Machine Centers pages.

These fields are calculated using the Average method from the Sustainability Value Entries page. You can view the calculated values on the production order by running the Refresh Production Order action. Each time you post, Business Central adds new values to the Sustainability Value Entry page related to the finished goods. The values are based on the consumption of raw materials and the output of operations.

The consumption and output entries create a Sustainability Value Entry linked to the Item Ledger Entry, with the output entry also connected to the Capacity Ledger Entry. To avoid double postings for the same emissions, these entries don’t post to the Sustainability Ledger Entry, but only to the Sustainability Value Entry. These entries are related only to the item emission valuation.