Sustainability value chain in purchasing

The requirement for enabling the us of the sustainability value chain in the purchase process is to enable the following fields on the Sustainability Setup page:

• Enable Value Chain tracking to enable value chain capabilities in all processes.
• Use Emissions In Purchase Documents to enable emission fields in the purchase document lines.

To do so, follow next steps:

1. Select the icon, enter Sustainability Setup, and then select the related link.
2. Check whether the basic setup already exists. If it doesn't, follow these instructions to set it up.
3. On the Procurement FastTab, fill in the fields that are related to the sustainability value chain features.
   1. Select the Use Emissions In Purchase Documents field.
   2. Select the Enable Value Chain tracking field.
4. Close the page.

Work with purchase documents

To learn how to work with purchase documents in sustainability, go to How to record emissions with purchase documents.

If you enabled the value chain on the Sustainability Setup page, and created a purchase document with the Sustainability Accounts and emissions (minimum one emission), Business Central automatically starts the sustainability value chain and posts details to the Sustainability Value Entries page.

Note

Note:
Business Central only creates sustainability value entries for items. Business Central doesn't support emissions from item charges.

Important

Important:
Because the sustainability value chain works only with the carbon equivalent (CO2e), before you start, configure carbon equivalent factors on the Emission Fees page. To learn more, go to Emission fees.

After you post the purchase documents, the results display on the Posted Purchase Invoice or Posted Purchase Credit Memo pages. To review the results, use the Find entries action. In the list of entries, find the sustainability value entry. To open a list of value chain transactions related to your purchase documents, select the entry.

When you post the document, Business Central also updates the CO2e per Unit field for all items in your purchase document. If the purchase document was the first for this item, Business Central uses the value from document. If you already had documents, Business Central uses the average model to calculate the CO2e per Unit value for your item.

Related information

Sustainability Value Chain Overview
Sustainability Management overview
Sustainability setup
Record sustainability entries
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