Day: March 6, 2025

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 8th of the new functionality in the Sustainability management section is use ESG Reporting integrated with Business Central.

Business Central users can now seamlessly integrate the Project ESG Reporting app with the Sustainability module for streamlined compliance reporting aligned with standards like CSRD, ASRS, and BRSR, with future expansions planned. This feature eliminates the need for repetitive data entry and lets you manage non-transactional data outside of Business Central. It marks another milestone in Microsoft’s commitment to fostering collaboration across business applications, enhancing efficiency and compliance for users.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

Business Central users can leverage the Sustainability module to measure environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions, water usage, and waste intensity while maintaining data required for compliance reporting. You can also use features such as statistical accounts to track and measure social and governance impacts.

This functionality allows you to collect sustainability data and align it with regulatory taxonomies required for reporting under various standards, such as Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR). After you collect and aggregate data in Business Central, you can seamlessly transfer it to the Project ESG Reporting app, where you can add more text or contextual information as needed. The reporting process ends with the generation of regulatory-compliant files for submission, which streamlines the entire sustainability reporting workflow.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 7th of the new functionality in the Sustainability management section is provide carbon equivalent data for sales based on Scope 3 automation.

Sustainability Scope 3 value chain process automation involves using standard ERP processes to streamline the collection, calculation, and reporting of indirect emissions data across the upstream and downstream corporate value chain. The processes improve accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with sustainability goals. Scope 3 is significant for accurate tracking because it represents the majority of emissions, influences business decisions, and aligns with many regulations.

Scope 3 is also probably the most complex for measuring because it requires data from multiple sources. For example, information from vendors but also internal operations such as transfers, manufacturing, and so on. This feature provides flexibility by enabling you to provide accurate emissions information about the items you sell.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability: Oct 2025

Feature Details

Business Central can accurately calculate item emissions based on values in Sustainability Value Entries, which currently only use the Average method. These values are used to add the calculated, read-only CO2e per Unit and Total CO2e fields on lines on sales documents. Note that this release doesn’t extend document reports to include the additional CO2e emission values.