Understanding Category Codes for Activity Source
Category codes are a type of user-defined codes that you customize to manage the tracking and reporting requirements of your business. Activity Source category codes can be used to represent any category or description by which you want to group the activity sources for sustainability management, review, and reporting. For example, a category code could differentiate emissions from different facilities or units within a plant. These category codes can also help you track progress toward sustainability goals by monitoring emissions in specific categories. Emissions can be reported separately for different regions using category codes making it easier to track compliance with the local regulations.
You can change the category code description, but you should not change the product code and type code. You can also change the characteristics for your category codes. For example, you can change the size (up to 10 characters) and type (numeric or alphanumeric). If you change the category code description or any of the characteristics for a category code, your system administrator must change the data dictionary edit rule and how the data dictionary is mapped so that the changes appear on your data entry forms.
You use the User Defined Codes program (P0004A) to assign category codes to the activity source records. If you assign a category code to your activity source records and then decide to change the description or a characteristic of the category code, you must manually change the existing activity source records.
When you set up activity source category codes, you should create a blank record on the User Defined Codes form. This provides a default if you do not need to assign a category code to a activity source record.
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Category Code |
Description |
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Sustainability Framework Category Codes (20S/01-10) |
You can define up to 10 sustainability framework category codes in UDC table 20S/01-10 to organize your sustainability data. |