If you want to track, manage, and report on the sustainability performance of your organization, measures are the key data points that you use. Dimensions essentially provide context and specificity to a measure and refine the data by categorizing it.
SAP Sustainability Control Tower provides standard measures and dimensions (including dimension values) which is ready-to-use content from SAP. You cannot change or delete standard measures and dimensions, however, you can add custom master data values to SAP provided master data values. If no SAP-provided measure or dimension fit a customer’s use case, you can define custom measures and dimensions in SAP Sustainability Control Tower.
Once created, custom measures and dimensions can be used to create custom metrics in the Manage Metrics application. Data recording for the custom measures, either through source system integration or manually, follows the same process as for SAP-provided measures.
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All measures (custom and SAP-provided) are managed in the Manage Measures Application. Custom Dimensions are managed in the Manage Custom Dimension Application, the SAP-provided dimensions (including values) are made available in the Manage Master Data application.
The Manage Measures Application
With this app, you can create new measures and edit existing custom measures.
Once a new measure is configured in the Manage Measure Application, you can proceed with the regular data upload process using Manage Quantitative ESG Data Application (see Unit 4 and 5).
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You can unassign custom dimensions from measures, but not when data already exists for a dimension in one or more measures. In this case, first delete the existing data for the selected dimension in the Configure and Update Solution app, then remove the relevant DPI from the dimension.
The Manage Custom Dimensions Application
With this app, you can configure new custom dimensions and edit those you already created.
Only once the master data is maintained, you can add the accepted values in the Manage Custom Dimension application.How to Create Custom Measures and Dimensions
You can create measures and dimensions in two different ways:
- Create a new measure, then navigate to the Manage Custom Dimensions app to create the required dimensions for the measure. Back in the Manage Measures app, finish the creation of the measure with the newly added dimensions.
- Create the required dimensions in the Manage Custom Dimensions app, then navigate to the Manage Measures app to create a measure and add the created dimensions to it. This is the recommended method.
Watch the following video and learns to create custom dimensions and measures within the data management area.
SAP Sustainability Control Tower is undergoing ongoing enhancements. Therefore, you may observe updated screens in the video in the next iteration of this training.