Author: Ian Grieve

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 2nd of the new functionality in the User experiences section is optimize screen estate usage on the web.

Work optimally with the Business Central web client on modern devices with large screen sizes or large external monitors. This feature ensures optimal screen usage even when pages are shown in different modes, maximizing your productivity and efficiency in the web client.

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

Feature Details

This feature optimizes screen estate usage in the Business Central web client. It includes:

• Optimized default narrow mode page sizes.
• Optimized sizing and animation of the FactBox pane in narrow mode.
• An option to resize the FactBox pane and remember this choice per page and mode.

My Opinion

This sounds like some good usability improvements when viewing Business Central on smaller screens. I would like to see some improvements for larger screens; where the client doesn’t expand to fill the whole page when the browser is expanded; many websites handle this by defining a maximum width and keeping the display to that as a maximum.

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 1st of the new functionality in the User experiences section is preview PDF attachments directly in web client.

By providing you a smooth and easy way to work with attachments, report outputs, or incoming documents, you remain productive and in the context of your work, which saves time and effort.

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

Feature Details

This feature lets you open PDF attachments directly in the Business Central web client without downloading them first. Files are shown in preview mode in a specialized viewer experience, similar to the print preview feature, and you can always download a PDF file from there.

This feature works automatically across all areas of Business Central, including ISV code. However, it requires an uptake from extension developers because two new AL methods have been added to capture this new behavior, following the pattern of the File.Download method:

• File.ViewFromStream – for Business Central online
• File.View – for Business Central on-premises

This feature is now used in various areas of Business Central, such as document attachments and incoming documents.

My Opinion

I can see the benefit of this one both in ease of viewing and that PDFs aren’t downloaded onto whichever machine you’re working on when you viewed the file.

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 10th of the new functionality in the Sustainability management section is use sustainability Scope 3 value chain in manufacturing.

Sustainability Scope 3 value chain process automation involves standard ERP processes to streamline the collection, calculation, and reporting of indirect emissions data across a company’s upstream and downstream value chain, improving accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with sustainability goals. Scope 3 is significant for accurate tracking because it represents a 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, from vendors, but also internal operations such as transfers, manufacturing, and so on. This feature provides more control by enabling you to track emissions in the manufacturing process and automatically calculate newly added emission in both downstream and upstream activities related to their inventory.

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

Feature Details

This feature allows you to calculate CO2e for finished goods by using raw material emissions data from purchase documents and adding emissions from manufacturing processes.

To facilitate this, the new CO2e per Unit and Total CO2e fields are available on the following pages

• Production BOM
• Routing
• Components
• Operations
• Production Order Lines
• Consumption
• Output Journals

Continue reading “New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1: Use Sustainability Scope 3 Value Chain In Manufacturing”

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 9th of the new functionality in the Sustainability management section is start value chain in purchase process for Scope 3 in sustainability.

Sustainability Scope 3 value chain process automation involves standard ERP processes to streamline the collection, calculation, and reporting of indirect emissions data across a company’s upstream and downstream value chain. The processes improve accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with sustainability goals. This feature provides flexibility by enabling you to track emissions starting with the purchase process, and to start the final emission calculation.

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

Feature Details

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, from vendors, but also internal operations such as transfers, manufacturing, and so on.

When you post emission values with purchase invoices, Business Central creates a sustainability ledger entry, as usual. It also creates and a new sustainability value entry that references the item ledger entry with the same item ledger entry type, and records details related to the calculated CO2e Amount. This marks the beginning of the emission valuation process, where Business Central tracks all emission changes through other processes. This feature in purchase documents currently applies only to items. It doesn’t yet support item charges for adding additional emissions. Also, this release supports only the Average model of emission calculation.

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.