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
Your footprint, from the records you already keep.
From the purchase line to the report, in five steps.
The sources are already there
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.
From the purchase line to the report, in five steps.
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.
Scope 1, 2 and 3, the factors, the base year, and the people.
Which standard, which factors and which sites count are yours to set.
Scope 1, 2 and 3, by source
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.
Factor matched by AI
The line says diesel and litres, or stationery and euros; the factor is proposed with its method, and one click confirms it.
Against the base year
The first full year is the base year, and every year after is read against it, by scope, on the same lines.
The social indicators, from Employees
Headcount, gender split and the pay gap are read from the people records, not surveyed again.
What the line does next
Confirm the factor, ask the supplier for theirs, or mark the line spend-based until a better record arrives.
The same footprint, for a business that moves food and one that cuts steel.
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.
A food distributor
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.
A metal fabricator
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.
Where the records come from.
Which standard, which factors and which sites count are yours to set.
The vehicle and its fuel
The vehicle and its fuelEvery 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.
The people
The peopleHeadcount, 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 questionnaire, answered from the report.
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.
Answered from the report
Scope 1 and 2, last year: 179.60 tCO2e, from the FY 2025 report.
Answered from the module
Scope 3, purchased goods: 548.30 tCO2e, from Purchase; the fleet, from Fleet.
Flagged, not guessed
Share of renewable electricity: no record, so the question is flagged for Sofie.
This is the room.
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 carbon tool you would otherwise buy starts from an export.
The purchase line carries its factor
- A spreadsheet
- No
- A carbon tool
- Re-entered from an export
- A suite module
- Sometimes
- Enobase
- Yes, on the line as it is booked
Fuel and vehicles from the fleet record
- A spreadsheet
- Typed in
- A carbon tool
- Uploaded
- A suite module
- Yes, in their fleet
- Enobase
- Yes, from Fleet
Headcount and commuting from the people record
- A spreadsheet
- Typed in
- A carbon tool
- Surveyed
- A suite module
- Yes
- Enobase
- Yes, from Employees
Activity-based wherever the record has a quantity
- A spreadsheet
- No
- A carbon tool
- Yes, once uploaded
- A suite module
- Sometimes
- Enobase
- Yes, spend-based only where there is no quantity
Read per site, per project, per product
- A spreadsheet
- No
- A carbon tool
- By tag, if entered
- A suite module
- Rarely
- Enobase
- Yes, on the fields the line already carries
The customer's questionnaire answered from the report
- A spreadsheet
- No
- A carbon tool
- Copied out
- A suite module
- No
- Enobase
- Yes, with a source on every answer
Next year's plan tracked against next year's records
- A spreadsheet
- No
- A carbon tool
- Against a new upload
- A suite module
- Sometimes
- Enobase
- Yes, as the bills come in
Time to live
- A spreadsheet
- A day
- A carbon tool
- Months
- A suite module
- Months
- Enobase
- One week
| 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 |
Questions about ESG
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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