Manage Business Activities

You can use this app to create and maintain business activities for data collection and emissions calculation. It is essential for tracking and managing emissions from various business activities within different locations that will help in your environmental analysis.

Prerequisites

You need the following roles:

  • SUS_SCT_CCF_Manual_Business_Activity_Viewer

  • SUS_PFM_Manual_Business_Activity_Read

  • SUS_PFM_Manual_Business_Activity_Write

Overview

In this guide, you can find information about the individual corporate carbon footprint apps. For information about the end-to-end process for calculating emissions using business activities, see the scenario guide for: https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SUS_SCT/8aa9148b4141433fa2808f9808b65480/2645561b7237420cbab0854ae218139b.html.

This app is used in the context of form-based data collection (that is, data is entered manually by users, rather than being imported from a different system). Business activities are any activity in your company (in any GHG category) that you want to record data and then calculate emissions for. For example, if you want to track emissions from different types of business travel, you could create separate business activities for air, train, and car travel for each of your locations. Later in the process, users responsible for those locations enter data about fuel used or distance traveled, and the system calculates the emissions using the emission factor and other calculation information that you entered in the business activity for each type of travel.

The Manage Business Activities app uses the emission factors imported with the Manage Emission Factors app. Emission factors change over time, and you can reflect those changes by creating new emission factor periods with the updated emissions calculation information within the existing business activity. The emission factor periods carry the information that is used for the footprint calculation for that activity.

After you have either created or imported the required business activities, you can move to the Manage GHG Data Collections app to set up the periodic collection of the relevant GHG data.

You can use the Manage Business Activities app for the following:

  • Create a business activity.

    For more information, see Creating Business Activities.

  • Import a business activity.

    For more information, see Importing Business Activities.

  • Edit a business activity.

    If you make changes to business activities after you have already created GHG collections for the relevant periods, then you need to go to the Manage GHG Data Collections app and Regenerate the collections to include your changes. You don't lose data when you do this, anything that was already entered into forms in the collection is kept.

  • Delete a business activity.

    To delete a business activity, you must first delete the corresponding GHG data collection, and then delete the GHG form in which the business activity is used.