The purchase line
A quantity, a unit and an account on every line, so the factor is activity-based whenever the record allows it and spend-based only when it does not.
ESG · Finance
Purchase lines, supplier bills, fuel and vehicles from Fleet, headcount from Employees, the energy bills booked in Accounting. Nothing is exported and nothing is uploaded. The years before Enobase come in as a file, once.
Purchase lines, supplier bills, fuel and vehicles from Fleet, headcount from Employees, the energy bills booked in Accounting. Nothing is exported and nothing is uploaded. The years before Enobase come in as a file, once.
Which standard, which factors and which sites count are yours to set.
Fleet diesel and heating gas are Scope 1, the electricity bills are Scope 2, purchases and commuting are Scope 3. Each is a source you can open down to the line it came from.
The line says diesel and litres, or stationery and euros; the factor is proposed with its method, and one click confirms it.
The first full year is the base year, and every year after is read against it, by scope, on the same lines.
Headcount, gender split and the pay gap are read from the people records, not surveyed again.
Confirm the factor, ask the supplier for theirs, or mark the line spend-based until a better record arrives.
What adapts: which records carry a factor (a fuel line, a material line, a refrigerant top-up), what the footprint is read per (a delivery round, a work order, a product), which standard the report follows, and who is asking for it. Two businesses can run ESG and disagree on every one of those.
The cold chain is Scope 1: refrigerant top-ups on the vans, diesel per delivery round from Fleet. Packaging is Scope 3, by weight from the purchase line. The footprint is read per product, because that is what the retailer's supplier questionnaire asks for, product by product.
Materials are Scope 3 by weight: the steel on the purchase order, kilogram by kilogram. Energy is Scope 2 from the site's electricity bills. The footprint is read per work order, because the public tender requires a footprint per delivered part, and the report follows the standard the tender names.
Which standard, which factors and which sites count are yours to set.
A quantity, a unit and an account on every line, so the factor is activity-based whenever the record allows it and spend-based only when it does not.
Every fuel line and every kilometre is on the vehicle already, so Scope 1 is read from Fleet and a van going electric is a change on one record.
Headcount, sites and declared commuting come from Employees, so commuting is Scope 3 without a survey and the social indicators read from the same records.
The purchase line
A quantity, a unit and an account on every line, so the factor is activity-based whenever the record allows it and spend-based only when it does not.
The retailer's questionnaire asks for last year's Scope 1 and 2, the Scope 3 of purchased goods, the size of the fleet and the reduction target. Every one of those is a line on the report already, so the answers are drafted from it with their source, and Sofie reviews five answers instead of reconstructing the year in a form. The question the records cannot answer is flagged, not guessed.
Scope 1 and 2, last year: 179.60 tCO2e, from the FY 2025 report.
Scope 3, purchased goods: 548.30 tCO2e, from Purchase; the fleet, from Fleet.
Share of renewable electricity: no record, so the question is flagged for Sofie.
The year's footprint: by scope, by site, how much of it is activity-based, what is still spend-based, and what moved since the base year.
The purchase line carries its factor
Fuel and vehicles from the fleet record
Headcount and commuting from the people record
Activity-based wherever the record has a quantity
Read per site, per project, per product
The customer's questionnaire answered from the report
Next year's plan tracked against next year's records
Time to live
| What you need | A spreadsheet | A carbon tool | A suite module | Enobase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The purchase line carries its factor | No | Re-entered from an export | Sometimes | Yes, on the line as it is booked |
| Fuel and vehicles from the fleet record | Typed in | Uploaded | Yes, in their fleet | Yes, from Fleet |
| Headcount and commuting from the people record | Typed in | Surveyed | Yes | Yes, from Employees |
| Activity-based wherever the record has a quantity | No | Yes, once uploaded | Sometimes | Yes, spend-based only where there is no quantity |
| Read per site, per project, per product | No | By tag, if entered | Rarely | Yes, on the fields the line already carries |
| The customer's questionnaire answered from the report | No | Copied out | No | Yes, with a source on every answer |
| Next year's plan tracked against next year's records | No | Against a new upload | Sometimes | Yes, as the bills come in |
| Time to live | A day | Months | Months | One week |
Yes. On its own it is a set of lines with a factor each, a report and a plan. Turn Purchase on and the lines come from the bills; turn Fleet on and Scope 1 reads from the vehicles; turn Employees on and commuting and the social indicators read from the people records.
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