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

Overview

The video demonstrates how Business Central tracks emissions like costs, using sustainability value entries. Inbound emissions currently come from items only, and item charges are planned for the next wave. The value chain extension also covers emissions from production and assembly orders, which is part of the public preview and is not fully demonstrated.

The demo shows enabling value chain tracking in Sustainability Setup, entering emissions on the item card, posting a purchase invoice that updates item emissions, and entering carbon equivalent on transfer order lines. It then shows the resulting sustainability value entries. The presenter suggests testing in a sandbox first.

Key points

• Value Chain Tracking is a new field in Sustainability Setup under the Procurement fast tab. It is in public preview, and enabling it shows a warning recommending testing in a sandbox first.
• With tracking enabled, posting a purchase document creates both a sustainability ledger entry and a sustainability value entry. Without it, only the ledger entry is posted.
• The item card shows CO2, methane and nitrous oxide fields. With no purchase history you can enter values manually and run Calculate CO2E. Posting a purchase invoice then fills these values and CO2e per unit automatically.
• Transfer orders track internal transport emissions in carbon equivalent only. The new field is visible only when tracking is enabled, and emissions are entered on each line (no header option).
• Posting a transfer shipment creates sustainability value entries with CO2e per unit but no sustainability ledger entry, because ledger entries cover only incoming emissions.
• Emissions appear in the posted transfer shipment but not in the posted transfer receipt. The item’s CO2e per unit increases afterwards (for example from 111 to 121).
• Current limits: average method only, item charges not supported until next wave, and no print output for sales invoice emissions in this release.

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.

• table 6227 “Sustainability Value Entry” at 1:09
• table 6216 “Sustainability Ledger Entry” at 6:54

Quotes

• 1:21 “Now we have sustainability value entry. What we have there? We have inbound emissions in this moment only from items.”
• 1:33 “So this is the completed functionality value chain is in this moment public review.”
• 2:23 “Okay let’s see how it works with transfer orders first what I want to emphasize it works with carbon equivalent only.”
• 2:36 “So system will calculate whatever you enter all three gas emissions system will automatically calculate to carbon equivalent and all these future tracking with”
• 3:37 “What is important when you post you will not get uh emissions information in both of posted documents in posted transfer uh shipment receipt.”
• 3:47 “in this moment in this way we are limited only on average method in the future we will see on your”
• 4:34 “When you enable this value chain tracking field, you will get warning message. Why warning message? Because again this is in public preview.”
• 6:22 “when you have enabled system will post both sustainability entry and sustainability value entry. If you didn’t enable and you still have emissions here”
• 9:13 “there is no sustainability ledger entry because sustainability ledger entry is related only with incoming emissions not internal.”

Disclaimers in the video

• 1:33 preview: value chain is in this moment public review.
• 1:33 coming-later: This is something what will come next wave. So this is the completed functionality value chain is in this moment public review. item charge
• 2:10 not-in-this-release: In this moment we do not have print print out for sales invoice
• 3:37 not-in-this-release: when you post you will not get uh emissions information in both of posted documents in posted transfer uh shipment receipt.
• 4:08 preview: in this moment in this way we are limited only on average method in the future we will see on your feedback if you want to extend to different method
• 4:34 preview: this is in public preview. So our suggestion will be first try it test it in your sandbox environment.