Allocation of Emissions to Order Release and Order Release Line
This feature supports the order release and order release line allocation of the calculated CO2e emissions. The action and setup for the shipment action - Allocate Emissions - is handled independently from the Allocate Cost action.
The Allocate Emissions shipment action is accessed via Shipment Management > Shipment Management > Buy Shipments or Sell Shipments > Actions > Shipment Management > Change Shipment Details > Allocate Emissions.
Shipment - Allocate Emissions Action
To demonstrate the Allocate Emissions feature the three orders below will be used. Two of the orders are single line order, single ship unit orders and one order has multiple lines and multiple ship units.
Allocate Emissions Orders
Bulk planning the three order releases generates the shipment with the emissions totals as shown below.
Shipment Emissions
Running the Allocate Emissions action against the shipment generated for the three order releases - above, provides the following Order Release Emission Allocation information for the shipment.
Shipment Allocate Emissions Result
In this case, the Emission Allocation Rule, shown below, has the Allocation Rule Detail Metric, for both the order release and order release line, set to Weight Carried Distance. In addition - the Allocation Rule has been configured as the Default Allocation Rule - more information will be provided about the Emission Allocation Rules in the Steps to Enable section.
Allocation Rule Used
The Allocate Emissions result for the three order releases is shown below - again - the CO2e is allocated to both the order release and the order release lines for each order on the shipment above.
Allocate Emissions result for the first order release with one order release line is below.
Allocate Emissions Order View
Allocate Emissions for the second order release with one order release line.
Allocate Emissions Order View
Allocate Emissions for the third order on the shipment, with two order release lines.
Allocate Emissions Order View
In the example below, both the Allocate Emissions and Allocate Cost actions have been run against the shipment, providing you with more insights into the cost and emissions associated with shipping specific products to your customers or from your suppliers. With this detailed information you have the level of information that will allow you and your customers/suppliers to make more informed trade-off decisions between cost and emissions, which can identify opportunities to potentially reduce costs and emissions, or agree to a slightly more expensive transportation solution that provides a lower-emissions outcome.
Allocate Emissions and Allocate Cost
By providing the option to allocate your emissions to the order release and order release line level - you now have additional ways to analyze the contributing attributes, like commodities, items, customers etc. that contribute to your overall emissions impact. With this additional insight - you can begin to make more informed transportation cost versus CO2e emissions tradeoffs as well as having shareable information regarding the CO2e emissions generated to support shipping order lines/items to/from your customers and suppliers.
Steps to Enable
To take advantage of this feature and effectively use the Allocate Emissions action - you will need to configure an Emission Allocation Rule. The Emission Allocation Rules can be found by navigating to Shipment Management > Power Data > Emission> Emission Allocation Rules.
For your Emission Allocation Rule - enter an Emission Allocation Rule ID - that's required - there's no BNG to fall back on without an entered value.
You can select the entered Emission Allocation Rule to be the Domain Default Emission Allocation Rule - one per domain. The logic will fist look for the Emission Allocation Rule to use on the Emission Activity Rule - if there is no Emission Allocation Rule specified on the Emission Activity Rule, then the Domain Default Emission Allocation Rule - if one is configured - will be used.
Allocation Rule - Header
For the Allocation Rule Details, you have the following options to configure - Basis either Order Release or Order Release Line and then the Metric to be used for allocating the emissions. The supported allocation metrics for emission allocations are Weight Carried Distance, Volume Carried Distance or Carried Distance. Only one allocation metric can be selected per allocation rule, and the metric will be applied at 100%.
Allocation Rule - Allocation Rule Details
In the example provided in the description the Emission Allocation Rule used was the Domain Default - in the example below - the configuration for the Emission Allocation Rule has been assigned to the Emission Activity Rule.
Emission Allocation Rule Assigned to Emission Activity Rule
The details of the Emission Allocation Rule assigned to the Emission Activity Rule are captured below, the Metric assigned is Volume Carried Distance.
Emission Allocation Rule Assigned to Emission Activity Rule
The results of running the Allocate Emissions action, with the Emission Allocation Rule assigned to the Emission Activity Rule is below.
Emission Activity Rule Level Emission Allocation Rule Emission Allocation Result
By comparison - the Domain Default Allocation Rule provided the Emission Allocation result below.
Domain Default Emission Allocation Result