The recent virtual SAP Sustainability Day gave us a unique opportunity to uncover SAP’s showcase of sustainability innovations and capability at a much more granular level than its initial launch back in April.
Here we give you an overview of SAP’s strategy and a top-level view on what’s new for sustainability:
SAP’s sustainability portfolio is divided into 4 pillars:
Recently introduced, this cloud application runs on SAP Business Technology Platform. It captures the environmental footprint of products across their lifecycle so customers can evaluate and gain insight of their product footprints at scale and report on the information at board level. SAP Product Footprint Management also complements the existing SAP EHS Environment Management solution which lets you track your footprint at a corporate level.
Providing live connectivity to SAP S/4HANA, this solution accesses third party system data and combines it with global regulations, so you can calculate extended producer responsibility (EPR) obligations, plastic taxes and other corporate commitments on material selections. It is designed to help customers build their products sustainably and reduce waste, providing a lifecycle view and environmental impact of the choices being made at the design level.
This solution delivers the ability to measure, calculate and track GHG emissions. You can collect and analyse activity and operational data such as fuel or electricity usage and flag up hazard thresholds before they impact safety. It also helps to safeguard operational continuity by reducing unplanned outages.
This solution embeds sustainability into your core business processes, with in-built capabilities, automation and analytics. It provides much more visibility, control and insight across your business operations in areas such as carbon emissions, social responsibility and material usage and climate regulations.
SAP BTP lets you extend applications across your business networks and enable sustainable growth. It also gives you visibility and centralised data for areas like compliance, supply chain data and ESG reporting.
This provides analysis and insight of HR data from a compliance and ethics perspective to ensure diversity of employees and inclusion across the organisation.