August 23rd 2022, Release Note: RME | CO2 Ingredient and Recipe Values

Summary

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Release date for all features: August 23rd 2022

See here for a quick guide on CO2-related APIs.

Ingredients: Field for CO2 Value

• Enabled by Default? - No
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - Yes
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles Affected: - Managers of master data, particularly sustainability data managers

What's Changing?

A new ingredient field to store an ingredient's 'CO2' value.

Please note: The new field was originally added to the GET/ingredients/{guid}/supplierspec API response but has since been removed. We expect to redeploy this on September 21st 2022.

Reason for the Change

To allow ingredient CO2 value to be stored and retrieved for use by interested stakeholders, for example, a Life Cycle Analysis partner.

Customers Affected

Optional. Available to all customers upon request to Fourth's Support team.
The Ingredient CO2 field will be 'off' by default.

Release Note Info/Steps

• Raise a request with Fourth's support team to have the CO2 field enabled in 'Ingredients global database settings'
• When the request is complete, go to the admin tab and select User Groups from the 'Search' drop-down
• Select the required User Group from the 'Results' list, go to its Permissions tab, and select Edit
• Under Product Specification tick the boxes against View supplier specifications and Edit supplier specifications, and then Save

Fig.1 - Permissions to view and edit the Ingredient Supplier Spec tab

• In the same User Group, select the Ingredient Fields tab and then Edit
• On the Supplier Spec tab, tick the box against C02 value and then Save

Fig.2 - User Group tab 'Ingredient Fields' is where CO2 value can be made visible to each user group

After doing this, members of the relevant User Groups will see the new C02 field (under 'Country of Origin' on the Supplier Spec sub-tab of every Ingredient.

The field will accept numerical values to four decimal places.

Fig.3 - CO2 value is located under 'Country Of Origin' on an Ingredient's Supplier Spec tab

Additional Resources

RME: How to: Amend User Groups

Recipes:  Fields for CO2 Value and CO2 Ranking Added

• Enabled by Default? - No
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - Yes
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles Affected: - if applicable

What's Changing?

Two new fields to store recipe CO2 value and CO2 ranking have been added.

Please note: These two new fields were added to the API response from GET/recipes but have since been removed. We expect to redeploy this on September 21st 2022.

Reason for the Change

Allow recipe CO2 value and CO2 ranking to be stored and retrieved for use by interested stakeholders, for example, a Life Cycle Analysis partner.

Customers Affected

Optional. Available to all customers upon request to Fourth's Support team.
The Recipe CO2 fields will be 'off' by default.

Release Note Info/Steps

• Raise a request with Fourth's support team to have the CO2 fields enabled in 'Recipes global database settings'

Once enabled, the new recipe fields will display on the Recipe > Details tab.

Fig.4- Recipe 'CO2 value' and 'CO2 ranking' are located on the Recipe Details tab