What's New in Sustainability: Value Chain with Item Charges (2025 release wave 2)
Item charges in Business Central sustainability for scope three emissions: how item charges on purchase invoices carry transport and other upstream emissions into carbon footprint tracking. Covers setup, CO2-equivalent-only limit, and assignment by amount, weight, volume or equally. Demoed in the 2025 release wave 2 video.
- Introduction to sustainability and value chain automation
- Evolution of sustainability features from two years ago
- Value chain automation and item charges for scope three emissions
- How item charges work with carbon footprint tracking
- Assignment models and setup requirements
- Creating a purchase invoice with item charges
- Item charge assignment suggestions and methods
- Closing remarks and resource links
Overview
The video covers the sustainability value chain work in 2025 release wave 2. It starts with how the sustainability features have developed over the past two years, then explains that scope three tracking now extends to item charges. Before this release, transport costs could not be assigned with item charges.
The demo creates a purchase invoice with item charges and shows the Item Charge Assignment page and the suggestion methods. Emissions can be assigned by amount, weight, volume, or distributed equally. The presenter also states the setup needed and that item charge emissions work only as carbon footprint (CO2 equivalent).
Key points
- Item charges can now be used on purchase invoices to track emissions from transport and other upstream activities as part of scope three.
- Setup: in the sustainability setup, on the procurement tab, enable item charge and item tracking in emissions.
- Item charge emissions work only as carbon footprint (CO2 equivalent); other gas emissions are automatically calculated to carbon equivalent.
- Item charge assignment can be suggested equally, by amount, by weight, or by volume, and all types behave the same way.
- Value chain automation for scope three is described as covering purchase invoices, transfer orders, assembly orders, production orders and projects.
- Sustainability ledger entries come from the sustainability journal, general journal and purchase invoices, and support reporting across all three scopes.
- Objects shown: Item Charge, Purchase Invoice and Item Charge Assignment pages.
Features
| Feature | Status | At |
|---|---|---|
| Item charges for sustainability tracking | status not stated, demoed | 1:22 |
| Value chain automation for scope three | status not stated | 0:57 |
| Sustainability ledger and value entries | status not stated | 0:29 |
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.
- page “Item Charge” at 3:40
- page 51 “Purchase Invoice” at 4:01
- page “Item Charge Assignment” at 4:47
Not found in BC28-30: page “Item Charge”, page “Item Charge Assignment”.
Quotes
- 1:32 “So now in this release, we enable item charge as well.”
- 1:52 “So we can cover all processes providing this definitely flexible emission attribution.”
- 2:20 “I already mentioned it works only as a carbon footprint. So that means with a carbon 2 equivalent carbon dioxide equivalent only.”
- 3:04 “So you can use equally by amount by weight or volume all types are covered absolutely the same.”
- 3:18 “You just need to enable in a sustainability setup or procurement tab. You need to enable uh item charge and you need to enable”
Presenters (as heard): Alexander Toto, Jacob Bang.