1. How do I get started with Sustainability?
  2. Plan and Prepare

Plan and Prepare

Oracle recommends that you prepare for regular implementation by planning for these tasks.

  1. Prepare your activity types and related data as follows:
    1. Review the Activity Types accelerator spreadsheet and remove, update, or add any activity types and associated measure and emission types that are specific to your implementation.
    2. Review the Value Sets accelerator spreadsheet containing the values that the activity type attributes can have and remove any unwanted entries from the spreadsheet. In addition, add or update value sets and values for any new or updated activity types and type attributes that you created or modified in the previous step.
      Note:
      • Oracle recommends that you carefully evaluate the potential usage of the entries in the accelerator spreadsheets and load only those entries that you intend to use. Doing so will help to keep the data to a minimum and make it more efficient to support any future enhancements.
      • Activity type attributes are configured using the Manage Descriptive Flexfield setup task during implementation.
  2. Identify and, if necessary, configure the UOMs that will be used for sustainability activities and emission factors as follows:

    1. Ensure that you've configured any required intraclass UOM conversions.

      For example, if you have activities that measure fuel in gallons, but your emission factors have liters in the denominator, then ensure that you have configured a conversion factor from gallons to liters in your Fusion instance.

    2. Ensure that you’ve configured any required interclass UOM conversions for inventory items.

      For example, if you have an emission factor that is based on the quantity of an item (for example, a product carbon footprint), and you have interclass UOM conversions configured on the item, then the calculator will perform a configured interclass UOM conversion to align the UOM of the measure on the activity with the denominator UOM of the emission factor.

    3. To avoid rounding issues in emission calculations, set up the UOM conversion factors in Inventory with a high degree of decimal precision as emission factors might have many decimal digits. The calculator uses the following formula for emission calculations:

      CO2e emission = emission * GWP * UOM conversion factor rounded to precision as set up in the Quantity Decimal Precision (INV_QUANTITY_DECIMAL_PRECISION) profile option

      You can set a value for the INV_QUANTITY_DECIMAL_PRECISION profile option by searching for and selecting the Manage Administrator Profile Values task in the Setup and Maintenance work area.

  3. Review the Global Warming Potentials accelerator spreadsheet and make any changes if required.
  4. In the Emission Factor Mappings accelerator spreadsheet:
    • Configure emission factors. The calculator will perform any interclass and intraclass UOM conversions, if required, assuming the required conversion factors are set up in your Fusion instance. Note that interclass conversion will be performed only if the activity references an item.
    • Update the UOM and Currency values to match with the ones configured in your Fusion instance.
    • Oracle doesn't provide emission factors for CO2e of component gases such as CH4 and N2O. To model the emission factors for CO2e of component gases from sources like the UK government, create a new emission type to represent the CO2e of the component gas (for example, CO2e of Methane, CO2e of Nitrous Oxide) in the Sustainability Emission Types (ORA_SUS_EMISSION_TYPES) lookup and set the corresponding global warming potential (GWP) value to 1. Then, ensure that you associate the newly created emission types with the respective activity types. You can now upload CO2e emission factor mappings for these emission types.
  5. Oracle recommends that you read the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) or UK government guidance on reporting Biogenic CO2 emissions. If you want to align with the guidance by omitting Biogenic CO2 from any of the emission scopes, then add Biogenic CO2 as an emission type for any activity type where you're going to burn biomass fuels. Then, change the emission type in the emission factor mappings spreadsheet for those fuels from CO2 to Biogenic CO2. The calculator omits Biogenic CO2 from total CO2e. This behavior requires that you don’t configure a GWP for Biogenic CO2. Note that Oracle doesn’t include one in the accelerator spreadsheet for GWPs.

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