SAP has embedded sustainability insights into our end-to-end business processes to make it possible for customers to make sustainability core to their business. For a deeper level of reporting and governance across an organization's value chain, SAP Sustainability solutions are a suite of applications designed to help customers in regulatory compliance, real-time insights, and sustainable future growth. Customers can proactively ensure they are compliant with global and local regulations, taxation, and sanctions through the deep transparency into financial and non-financial data.
The real-time data across the entire solution can be used to assess your actual carbon footprint and learn where to improve.
For example, designing a circular business model where waste is reduced and/or reused as much as possible, with the ultimate goal of creating zero waste. If zero waste isn't possible for a particular use case, customers can support a local facility that burns approved materials to create renewable energy, rather than burying the waste in a landfill that produces carbon dioxide and methane as it decomposes. In addition, all materials involved in the production of semifinished and finished goods should be grown and/or gathered in a responsible way, with the employees working with these materials at every step in the process being paid a fair, livable wage in safe work conditions.
Often, the people involved in growing and gathering raw materials can be overlooked, and native plants or trees are removed in favor of growing materials that can be sold for profit. With detailed and descriptive data about each step of the production process, businesses can make thoughtful, informed decisions that have a real impact at a human and environmental level, while even identifying new sustainable products, services, and solutions they wouldn't have originally thought of.
