Business Central – Enable Sustainability Scope 3 Value Chain
Sustainability Scope 3 value chain process automation involves standard ERP processes to streamline the collection, calculation, and reporting of indirect emissions data across a company’s upstream and downstream value chain. The process improves accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with sustainability goals. 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, such as vendors, but also information in internal operations such as transfers, manufacturing, and so on. This feature provides more flexibility by enabling you to track emissions in the assembly and transfer processes and automatically calculate new added emissions in both downstream and upstream inventory activities.
From October 2025, this feature allows the calculation of CO2e for regular transferred items and for assembly items by using initial emissions data from purchase documents and adding emissions from through transfer or assembly order processes.
To facilitate the calculation, the new CO2e per Unit and Total CO2e fields are available on the Transfer Orders and Assembly Orders pages. For Transfer Orders, you can increase these values only for transferred items. For Assembly Orders, Business Central uses emissions from consumed items and resources to calculate the total emission of CO2e for the assembled item.
The values in these fields are calculated using the Average method from the Sustainability Value Entries page. With each posting, Business Central adds new values to the Sustainability Value Entry related to the specific transaction. These entries don’t post to the Sustainability Ledger Entry, but only to the Sustainability Value Entry to avoid double postings for the same emissions. These entries are related only to the item emission valuation.
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 13, 2025
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