Prerequisites for Implementation

These are the tasks that you must complete before you implement Oracle Sustainability.

Ensure that the following standard Fusion setup tasks are configured within your Fusion instance:
- Legal entities
  Every activity must belong to a legal entity. The activity will be posted to a sustainability ledger that's associated with the same legal entity.
- Accounting calendar
  You must associate a sustainability ledger with an accounting calendar. This determines how sustainability periods in the sustainability ledger are structured.
- Currencies
  This is required to calculate emissions using spend-based emission factors, or supplier emission intensity.
- Inventory organizations
  If you'd like to use item carbon footprint, or emission factors specific to an inventory item, then the item needs to be validated against an inventory organization that's designated as a validation organization.
- Units of measure (UOMs)
  This is required to calculate emissions using quantity-based emission factors such as quantity of fuel, electricity units consumed, or number of units of an item procured.
Create and configure any additional setup entities that your business requires. For example, if there's a UOM that you plan to use in emission factor mappings or activities, but that isn't currently defined in the existing Manage Units of Measure setup task, then define the UOMs you need. Ensure that intraclass UOM conversion factors are set up for any newly added UOMs.
If you plan to reference Suppliers and Items in emission factor mappings or sustainability activities, then ensure that they're already created in your Fusion instance.
If you plan to use interclass UOM conversion, then it must be configured on the inventory item that will be referenced on the emission factor mapping and activities.
If you want to use accelerator spreadsheets for planning your data, then download the Accelerator Spreadsheet Templates.zip file from Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.