Business Central – Use Sustainability Scope 3 Value Chain in Manufacturing

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, improving accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with sustainability goals. Scope 3 is significant for accurate tracking because it represents a 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, this feature provides more control by enabling you to track emissions in the manufacturing process and automatically calculate newly added emission in both downstream and upstream activities related to their inventory.

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.

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 16, 2025

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