Overview of CloudforSustainabilitySharedDataModel

Cloud for Sustainability Shared Data Model CDM entity definitions

Entities

Name	Description
Account	Business that represents a customer or potential customer. The company that is billed in business transactions.
AccountingMethod	Approach or method to quantify and report the environmental footprint of an organization's activities, encompassing greenhouse gas emissions and broader sustainability factors.
AlternateResultBasis	Primary reason used for generating alternate sustainability records, which is done by applying different methodologies, assumptions, or calculation models to the same underlying data set.
Contact	Person with whom a business unit has a relationship, such as customer, supplier, and colleague.
CountryRegion	Defines custom country/region codes.
CountryRegionMapping	Entity storing the region mapping, which is a mapping of a country or region to a user-defined group.
CustomDimensionMetadata	Table holding information about all the custom dimensions available in Microsoft Sustainability Manager
DataSourceType	The different types of sources for energy data.
DeprecatedProductIdentifier	Uniquely identifies a product.
EmissionFactor	Conversion factor which takes activity data and converts quantities into greenhouse gas amounts and units.
EnergyProviderType	Categories or classifications of companies or entities that supply energy, such as electricity or gas.
EstimationFactor	Entity to store estimation or consumption factors.
Facility	Base-level location to attribute activity data. May contain multiple buildings and organizational units.
FacilityCapacity	Entity to capture the facility's capacity dimension and measure for a specified time period.
FacilityCapacityDimension	The dimension of the facility based on which the water usage intensity factors are defined such as area.
FacilityItemProduction	Entity used to record the production quantity of an item in a facility for a specified period.
FacilityType	Entity used for classifying the type of facility, as defined in the reporting company.
FacilityUsageDetail	Captures intensity scores for a facility in a given year.
FactorLibrary	Repository for emission and estimation factor sets, including both system and user added.
FactorMapping	Entity which connects reference data to a specific emission factor or estimation factor, which can determine different factors for large sets of activity data.
GeographicArea	Definition or categorization of a given area on earth
GeographicAreaType	User or industry defined type of geographic area
IndustrialProcessType	Entity to store process classifications for various industrial processes, such as extraction and manufacturing processes.
Industry	Parent level of the industry classification which contains an ID and name.
IndustryClassification	Combination of the Industry parent-level industry classification and the Subindustry child-level industry classification, both defined on the company profile.
Material	Entity used for classifying the type of material, as defined in the reporting company.
Meter	An entity that represents meters.
MonthlyRevenue	Captures revenue of an organizational unit by year and month in the company currency.
OrganizationalHierarchy	The classification that a company or organization uses to categorize its entities such as facilities, departments, divisions and organizational units.
OrganizationalProfile	The base information of the organization, for which the solution is built.
OrganizationalUnit	A structural division of a company or organization.
ProductCategory	Represents category of a product. Can be associated with a parent product category. It is used in reports.
ProductSustainability	A product that can be associated with a product carbon footprint.
ReportingPeriod	Entity used to track reporting periods created for each reporting year.
ReportingYear	Entity which lists reporting years created in the system.
Subindustry	Child-level of the industry classisfication, which contains an ID and name.
SustainabilityDataDefinition	Entity used to define the data definitions for entities across Carbon, Waste and Water.
SustainabilityDataDefinitionSubcategory	Stores data definition subcategories and help links
SustainabilityItemCategorySKU	The category of the item such as abrasives, castings or accessories
SustainabilityItemPackaging	Indicates whether the item is used for packaging when distributing a product.
SustainabilityItemSKU	Entity for capturing data on items/SKU inventoried such as input material and finished goods.
SustainabilityModule	Entity used to classify the data definitions.
Unit	Unit of measure.
UnitGroup	Grouping of units.
ValueChainPartner	Entity for value chain partner or supplier.