What's New: Value Chain Automation with Assembly Orders (2025 release wave 1)

Overview

The video walks through how emissions flow from purchase documents into assembly orders. Sustainability value entries are new entries, similar to value entries but tracking item emissions instead of costs. They are created when posting purchase invoices and assembly orders, provided value chain tracking is enabled in Sustainability Setup.

The demo covers the setup (Procurement fast tab), manual emissions entry for items with no purchase document, posting a purchase invoice, and an assembly order with items and resources that shows total and per-unit carbon equivalent. It also lists current limits and says the functionality is in public review, so testing in a sandbox first is advised.

Key points

• Enable the Value Chain Tracking field in Sustainability Setup (Procurement fast tab) to create sustainability value entries alongside sustainability ledger entries. Without it, the user experience shows no difference.
• Sustainability value entries are created when posting purchase invoices and assembly orders with value chain tracking enabled.
• Value chain calculations use only carbon equivalent. It is calculated from carbon, methane and natrium values using configured emission fees.
• For items with no purchase document, emissions can be entered manually and the Calculate CO2 action computes the carbon equivalent.
• Assembly orders show total and per-unit carbon equivalent, transferring emissions from component items and resources to the assembled item.
• Limits in this wave: only the average costing method is supported, and item charges cannot be applied (planned for the future).
• Sustainability value entry information appears on the posted sales invoice document, but printouts have no support and must be added manually. The functionality is in public review, so test in a sandbox first.

Features

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

• other “Sustainability Value Entry” at 0:58
• other “Sustainability Ledger Entry” at 0:26
• other “Sustainability Setup” at 3:17
• other “Procurement Fast Tab” at 3:17

Quotes

• 0:58 “We have now new functionality. We have sustain sustainability value entry. And this is very very similar what we have in the existing value”
• 1:15 “So everything is started with the purchase document. you will get this first uh incoming emission from purchase documents in this wave only for”
• 1:15 “So uh item charge cannot be applied in this wave. This is something what we are planning for the future”
• 1:46 “In this way, we do not support uh different printouts. We have this information on post sales invoice document.”
• 2:10 “all value chain works only with the carbon equivalent. So whatever you enter as your uh beginning on purchase documents if you enter carbon”
• 3:17 “In this moment system work only with average method.”
• 3:45 “If you want to get create a sustainability value entry together, you need to enable you need you must enable this field. Without enabling”
• 4:00 “when you enable because this completed functionality about value chain is in this moment in public review.”

Disclaimers in the video

• 1:15 not-in-this-release: item charge cannot be applied in this wave. This is something what we are planning for the future
• 1:46 not-in-this-release: In this way, we do not support uh different printouts. We have this information on post sales invoice document. But if you want to to print them, you need to add them manually to your printouts. In the future, we will see based on your feedback how you would like to have this uh intro introduced in printouts
• 4:00 preview: this completed functionality about value chain is in this moment in public review
• 4:11 preview: You will get this warning message that our suggestion will be first try this functionality in your sandbox and after you confirm everything work based on your expectation you can switch to production environment