Moving toward a Green Ledger - Reinvent the "R" in ERP
SAP Sustainability solutions are uniquely powerful because they directly integrate with your ERP, providing real-time data and insights that drive actionable change across your business. In today’s environment, the cost of inaction is too high—regulatory fines, damage to brand image, and difficulty attracting top talent are real threats. With SAP, you can not only meet compliance requirements but also enhance your brand’s reputation and become an employer of choice, all while optimizing your operations for sustainability. This isn’t just about reporting—it’s about driving meaningful, measurable action.
The Sustainability Challenge
Regulations around sustainability are tightening globally, and businesses that fail to comply face severe penalties and reputational damage. In recent years, ESG standards have been adopted at an unprecedented pace, and staying ahead of these changes is crucial. But it’s not just about avoiding fines—your brand and ability to attract top talent are on the line as well.
A Capgemini report found that 79% of consumers now base their purchase decisions on social responsibility and environmental impact. Similarly, 71% of job seekers prefer environmentally friendly employers, with many willing to accept a lower salary to work for sustainable companies. The cost of inaction? It could mean losing your competitive edge, both in the marketplace and in the talent pool.
SAP's Sustainability Solution
That’s where SAP comes in. We’ve embedded sustainability into the very fabric of our end-to-end business processes, empowering our customers to take meaningful, measurable action. With SAP Sustainability solutions integrated directly with your ERP, you get real-time insights that drive operational change—not just reporting.
Our SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises suite is designed to help you stay compliant with ever-evolving regulations, reduce emissions, create zero waste, and ensure social responsibility. With solutions for ESG reporting, climate action, circular economy, and social responsibility, SAP gives you the tools to not just comply, but to lead.
What’s unique about SAP is our comprehensive portfolio that directly integrates sustainability into your business processes. This isn’t just about ticking boxes for compliance—it’s about using real-time data to transform your operations, enhance your brand, and attract the best talent. SAP’s deep integration with your ERP ensures that sustainability is not an afterthought but a core driver of your business strategy
How SAP BTP Helps Sustainability
With a vision to manage carbon in sync with financials, SAP BTP empowers enterprises to integrate and extend their applications across business networks, optimizing sustainable growth and innovation while ensuring visibility of disaggregated data for compliance, such as ESG reporting, holistic steering, and supply chain transparency. SAP BTP provides the solutions needed to support sustainability, driving progress toward a unified system of data, applications, and business processes that reduces infrastructure costs and operational complexity. With a robust and agile foundation, enterprises can enhance the reliability and performance of their sustainability programs.
With SAP Business Technology Platform, enterprises can:
- bring sustainability data into your business data fabric
- link strategic, financial, operational and sustainability objectives
- holistically manage performance and ESG reporting on a business-centric platform
- reduce global emissions, waste and social injustice based on verifiable metrics and sustainability embedded processes
- and automate sustainability data management from collection to audit with the same rigor as financial data