Introducing SAP Product Footprint Management

SAP Product Footprint Management is a cloud application that is built on the SAP Business Technology Platform. In the application, within the Footprint Calculation Template, you define the scope you want to consider – like the period, plants, or product groups.

Based on this scope, the Product Footprint Management (PFM) Extractor calls the Data Extractor in the Sustainability Integration Component in ABAP. This reuse component is included in SAP S/4HANA and pulls the relevant business data – like material movements – from your SAP S/4HANA Cloud or SAP S/4HANA system and sends the aggregated data back to PFM.

Besides the business data SAP Product Footprint Management pulls emission factors from external data providers like Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) databases. Those factors can be uploaded via templates. SAP provides pre-filled templates with data from Content Partners via the SAP Store.

Next, the business data is mapped to the relevant emission factors via pre-configured derivation rules and the respective product footprints are calculated. This calculation can be done monthly for all plant-material-product combinations. The footprint is stored in the Footprint Inventory, via the application the user can view and compare the results.

Via the Sustainability Integration Component, the Footprint Inventory is also connected back to your SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA system so that your business users can access the footprints directly in their end to end processes and applications.

You begin by replicating all your source data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud or SAP S/4HANA. You then import emission factors from own LCA or from a third-party provider into the solution. Next, you decide on the plants, product groups, and mappings you want for your calculations. Lastly, you gain an understanding of the calculated footprints by viewing the results.

To help analyze the calculated footprints results in detail, with the aim of reducing your organization's carbon exposure, an interface using the OData service has been provided to build analytics dashboards. This interface can be consumed by your own analytics application or can be used in SAP Analytics Cloud.

With the help of the OData service, you can evaluate the product footprint data in multiple dimensions, such as:

• Analyze the footprint data of products purchased from suppliers and identify a sustainable supplier.

• Analyze alternative material to reduce the carbon exposure.

You can build analytics dashboards by using the Odata API. This interface can be consumed by your own analytics application or can be used in SAP Analytics Cloud. It exposes the aggregated and line-item level footprint data based on the products, the suppliers and the plants in your organization’s unit.

SAP provides pre-configured content which consists of various dashboards to visualize and analyze the footprint calculation results in detail. You can drill down into different dimensions, fitting best to your business needs. This will help you in identifying those materials or suppliers that contribute most to your overall product footprint and enabling you to take corrective actions to reduce your carbon exposure.

Note

SAP Product Footprint Management Analytics Package is available as part of the Line of Business Sustainability in all SAP Analytics Cloud instances on release 2022.02 or higher. It consists of the following views and dashboards:

• Overview dashboards for purchased products and manufactured products
• Footprint Analysis of Inventory of purchased products and manufactured products
  • Inventory Analysis
  • Inventory Heatmap
  • Inventory Table View
• Footprint Analysis of Product Inflows from Suppliers and Inflows from Production
  • Inflow Analysis
  • Inflow Heatmap
  • Inflow Table View