SAP offers a distinct advantage with its cloud ERP business processes, empowering companies to move beyond mere compliance and achieve real competitive benefits. SAP's value proposition centers on an ERP-centric, cloud-based, AI-enabled approach to sustainability management.
SAP's sustainability solutions stand out due to their deep integration with SAP cloud ERP business processes. This integration provides precise and actionable insights, empowering businesses to go beyond regulatory compliance and embed sustainability into their operations. By aligning business processes with sustainability goals, customers can drive meaningful change and gain a competitive advantage.
SAP's cloud-based platform enables continuous innovation and agility, leveraging cloud technologies, automation, and updates. SAP's sustainability solutions, exclusively available in the cloud, integrate sustainability data, cloud ERP, and business AI to achieve ongoing process optimization and long-term agility. With SAP, businesses can stay ahead of the curve in the highly dynamic field of sustainability and industry innovation. SAP's modular approach to industry capabilities and cloud-based solutions simplify IT landscapes and keep customers up-to-date with regulations.
Let's explore how SAP delivers capabilities across sustainability themes and our three-fold value proposition through SAP Sustainability solutions. Reflecting customer challenges and SAP's expertise, SAP's solutions help customers:
- Start with Regulatory Compliance:
Utilize SAP's tools like SAP Sustainability Control Tower for CSRD reporting, SAP Environment, Health & Safety Management, SAP S/4HANA for Product Compliance, and SAP Responsible Design & Production for plastic tax and Extended Producer Responsibility regulations.
- Embed Sustainability into Decision-Making:
Move beyond compliance by integrating sustainability criteria into corporate decisions. For example, use SAP Sustainability Footprint Management to calculate product carbon footprints and SAP Sustainability Data Exchange to incorporate carbon values into procurement and product design.
SAP's portfolio meets customer needs and continuously delivers innovation:
- Based on SAP's modular approach, customers can combine the solutions flexibly, based on the capabilities required
- Built on S/4HANA, BTP and Business Network, our suite of solutions is ERP-centric, innovative, and connected into networks- making sustainability come to life through processes- embedding sustainability across LoB solutions, so that every process can contribute to customers’ sustainability goals. From procurement to finance, from product design to supplier management
- Finally, SAP's solutions are connected through a harmonized, common sustainability data foundation, enabling consistent, seamless data consumption from the underlying ERP system SAP S/4HANA across all solutions, AI, cross-analytics and integration in core business processes