Sustainability Value Chain

Path: Business functionality > Sustainability management > Sustainability Value Chain · tier official · system sustainability · narrative reviewed (checked by Opus)

Overview

The value chain features let you record and calculate emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, expressed as CO2e) for items, resources, work and machine centers, and fixed assets, then follow that carbon through each business process. Emissions come in from vendor and purchase data and are carried through transfers, production, assembly, service and sales, so a manufactured or sold item has an embedded carbon footprint.

Start with the overview page for the concepts, then the setup page. Setup enables Value Chain Tracking, selects the Carbon Tracking Method (average or specific), enables emissions on master data and defines emission fees with carbon equivalent factors. The default data page helps you fill in default sustainability accounts and emissions on master data. After that, use the process pages that match your scenario: purchasing, transfers, production, assembly orders, item journals, sales, Service Management and fixed assets.

The process pages follow a similar pattern. You record emissions on documents or journals, then post them, which creates sustainability value entries (fixed assets also mention sustainability ledger entries). Item journals also provide an Adjust Emissions batch job that recalculates average CO2e per unit from posted entries.

Key points

• The overview covers Scope 3 emissions tracking through vendor data and embedded carbon across purchase, transfer, production, assembly and sales. The overview page is tagged 2025 release wave 1.
• Setup: enable Value Chain Tracking, choose the Carbon Tracking Method (Average or Specific), and define Emission Fees with Carbon Equivalent Factors for all greenhouse gases.
• Purchasing, sales and transfers support average and specific carbon tracking, and those pages also cover lot tracking.
• Default data: set a Default Sustainability Account and default CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions for G/L accounts, items, resources, work centers, machine centers and fixed assets. There is also a Calculate CO2e action and default setup on Item Category.
• Production uses item, work center and machine center emissions, production BOMs and routings to calculate CO2e per unit. Assembly orders record item and resource emissions and support emission recalculation.
• Item journals and the item reclassification journal create sustainability value entries. The Adjust Emissions batch job recalculates average CO2e per unit from posted entries.
• Purchasing uses the Use Emissions In Purchase Documents setting. Sales offers optional ESG Sales layouts that show the embedded carbon footprint, and also covers fixed asset sales.
• Service Management tracks expected and actual emissions for items and resources on service lines and supports undoing service postings. Fixed asset emissions are tracked through acquisition, reclassification and disposal, with sustainability ledger entries.

Learn pages

• Sustainability default data: Learn how to set up default sustainability values for your master data.
• Sustainability value chain in assembly orders: Learn how to work with assembly orders related to the sustainability value chain process.
• Sustainability value chain in item journals: Learn how item journals and item reclassification journals affect sustainability value chain entries and item emissions.
• Sustainability value chain in production: Learn how to work with production orders related to the sustainability value chain process, but also with other elements related to manufacturing.
• Sustainability value chain in purchasing: Learn about understanding how value chain process starts with the purchase process.
• Sustainability value chain in sales: Learn about working with items and their embedded carbon footprints during the sales process.
• Sustainability value chain in Service Management: Learn how sustainability value chain tracking calculates and posts CO2e for Service Management documents.
• Sustainability value chain in transfers: Learn how to work with transfer orders and their effect on the sustainability value chain process.
• Sustainability value chain overview: Learn about the sustainability value chain features by using the provided information and resources.
• Sustainability value chain setup: Learn how to enable the sustainability value chain.
• Track Fixed Asset Emissions in the Value Chain: Learn how to track CO2e emissions when you acquire, reclassify, sell, or dispose of fixed assets in Business Central.

Videos, posts and code changes

Linked by a Haiku matcher with a grounding quote from the item’s summary (link/topics.ts); machine-generated.

• #10183 Bug 646432: [master] [Sustainability] Line does not indicate/enforce which Calculation Foundation is in use; all formula input fields are editable (code change): “enforce field editability based on the selected account category’s Calculation Foundation and Emission Scope”
• #10293 [Master] - Bug 641309: [Sustainability][Value Chain] Item Reclassification (location move) uses average emissions instead of Specific carbon tracking (lot/serial) (code change): “Item reclassifications now track specific carbon emissions by lot serial instead of using average emissions”
• #10600 [Master] - Slice 641282: [Sustainability][Value Chain] FA Reclassification Journal: add CO2e reclassification % field to split emissions like Acq. Cost % (code change): “A new Reclassify CO2e % field was added to the FA Reclassification Journal”
• #10945 [Master]- Slice 641299: [Sustainability][Value Chain] ESG layouts: request-page option to print emissions by Item Tracking for Specific Carbon Tracking Method (code change): “ESG sales invoice reports now offer a request-page option to print emissions”
• #11125 [29.x]-[Sustainability][Value Chain] ESG layouts: request-page option to print emissions by Item Tracking for Specific Carbon Tracking Method (code change): “ESG report layouts now support printing emissions by item tracking details”
• #11217 [Master] - Slice 641591: EUDR Certificate Capture for Items (code change): “EUDR certificate information can now be captured and tracked across items”
• #11359 [Master] - Bug 648886: [Sustainability][Value Chain] Transfer Order uses average emissions instead of Specific carbon tracking (lot/serial) (code change): “Transfer Order uses average emissions instead of Specific carbon tracking”
• #9039 Adding all Power BI reports to Business Manager’s Role Center (code change): “Sustainability module integrated with Power BI reports”
• #9613 [Master] - Sustainability: Specific Carbon Tracking, Item Charge emissions & setup fixes (Bugs 641051, 641486, 641487, 641049, 641222, 641055, 641289, 641224, 641309) (code change): “value chain posting, and setup validations”
• What’s New: Value Chain Automation with Production Orders (2025 release wave 1) (video): “value chain tracking; sustainability value entries; production orders; emissions”
• What’s New: Value Chain Automation with Transfer Orders (2025 release wave 1) (video): “Value Chain Automation with Transfer Orders; sustainability value entries; carbon equivalent; scope 3 emissions”
• Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Release Wave 1 Release Highlights (video): “Scope 3 emissions; carbon dioxide; sustainability reporting; data enrichment”
• What’s New: Value Chain Automation with Assembly Orders (2025 release wave 1) (video): “Value Chain Automation with Assembly Orders; value chain automation; scope 3 emissions”
• What’s New in Sustainability: Value Chain with Item Charges (2025 release wave 2) (video): “Value Chain with Item Charges scope three emissions carbon footprint value chain automation”
• What’s New in Sustainability: Value Chain in Projects (2025 release wave 2) (video): “Value Chain Automation in Projects; Scope Three Coverage via Value Chain”

Business Central pages and reports

The pages, reports and queries this hub’s Learn pages name (ms.search.form, API reference), joined to the code by exact object id (data/index/docs-objects.json); a page shows the table it runs on.

• Page 16 “Chart of Accounts” · on Table 15 “G/L Account”
• Page 30 “Item Card” · on Table 27 “Item”
• Page 42 “Sales Order” · on Table 36 “Sales Header”
• Page 43 “Sales Invoice” · on Table 36 “Sales Header”
• Page 50 “Purchase Order” · on Table 38 “Purchase Header”
• Page 51 “Purchase Invoice” · on Table 38 “Purchase Header”
• Page 76 “Resource Card” · on Table 156 “Resource”
• Page 900 “Assembly Order” · on Table 900 “Assembly Header”
• Page 5510 “Production Journal” · on Table 83 “Item Journal Line”
• Page 5600 “Fixed Asset Card” · on Table 5600 “Fixed Asset”
• Page 5604 “FA Ledger Entries” · on Table 5601 “FA Ledger Entry”
• Page 5628 “Fixed Asset G/L Journal” · captioned “Fixed Asset G/L Journals” · on Table 81 “Gen. Journal Line”
• Page 5629 “Fixed Asset Journal” · captioned “Fixed Asset Journals” · on Table 5621 “FA Journal Line”
• Page 5636 “FA Reclass. Journal” · captioned “Fixed Asset Reclassification Journals” · on Table 5624 “FA Reclass. Journal Line”
• Page 5740 “Transfer Order” · on Table 5740 “Transfer Header”
• Page 5800 “Item Charges” · on Table 5800 “Item Charge”
• Page 5900 “Service Order” · on Table 5900 “Service Header”
• Page 5902 “Service Order Subform” · captioned “Lines” · on Table 5901 “Service Item Line”
• Page 5905 “Service Lines” · on Table 5902 “Service Line”
• Page 5914 “Service Order Statistics” · on Table 5900 “Service Header”
• Page 5933 “Service Invoice” · on Table 5900 “Service Header”
• Page 5934 “Service Invoice Subform” · captioned “Lines” · on Table 5902 “Service Line”
• Page 5935 “Service Credit Memo” · on Table 5900 “Service Header”
• Page 5936 “Service Credit Memo Subform” · captioned “Lines” · on Table 5902 “Service Line”
• Page 5952 “Posted Service Cr. Memo Lines” · on Table 5995 “Service Cr.Memo Line”
• Page 5964 “Service Quote” · on Table 5900 “Service Header”
• Page 5966 “Service Quote Lines” · on Table 5902 “Service Line”
• Page 5972 “Posted Service Credit Memo” · on Table 5994 “Service Cr.Memo Header”
• Page 5973 “Posted Serv. Cr. Memo Subform” · captioned “Lines” · on Table 5995 “Service Cr.Memo Line”
• Page 5975 “Posted Service Shipment” · on Table 5990 “Service Shipment Header”
• Page 5976 “Posted Service Shpt. Subform” · captioned “Lines” · on Table 5989 “Service Shipment Item Line”
• Page 5978 “Posted Service Invoice” · on Table 5992 “Service Invoice Header”
• Page 5979 “Posted Service Invoice Subform” · captioned “Lines” · on Table 5993 “Service Invoice Line”
• Page 6030 “Service Statistics” · on Table 5900 “Service Header”
• Page 6033 “Service Invoice Statistics” · on Table 5992 “Service Invoice Header”
• Page 6034 “Service Credit Memo Statistics” · on Table 5994 “Service Cr.Memo Header”
• Page 6221 “Sustainability Setup” · on Table 6217 “Sustainability Setup”
• Page 6245 “Emission Fees” · on Table 6226 “Emission Fee”
• Page 99000754 “Work Center Card” · on Table 99000754 “Work Center”
• Page 99000760 “Machine Center Card” · on Table 99000758 “Machine Center”
• Page 99000766 “Routing” · on Table 99000763 “Routing Header”
• Page 99000786 “Production BOM” · on Table 99000771 “Production BOM Header”
• Page 99000817 “Prod. Order Routing” · on Table 5409 “Prod. Order Routing Line”
• Page 99000818 “Prod. Order Components” · on Table 5407 “Prod. Order Component”
• Page 99000831 “Released Production Order” · on Table 5405 “Production Order”

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