SAP Sustainability Footprint Management aims to calculate a company's total carbon footprint over a specific period, attribute emissions to manufactured products and corporate overhead, and ultimately achieve a balanced emission level. Footprint calculations can be performed in two different ways:
Calculating Organizational Footprint Inventory
The first option periodically calculates your company's total carbon footprint by including all emissions within the organization, such as those from energy flow models and purchased products. With the current release, the calculation considers GHG Protocol Scope 1 (owned/operated assets), Scope 2 (purchased energy), Scope 3.1 (purchased products/services), and Scope 3 (other manual emissions). Emission balancing ensures that incoming emissions equal outgoing emissions throughout all production stages.
For setting up the monthly calculation, you first need to select the Footprint Inventory Scope, and the matching energy flow model and allocation rules. In a next step you need to provide the following input data:
- Energy Bills, for entering the consumed energy quantity and the respective emissions as provided by the utilities company
- Meter Readings, for entering the information from the meters in your production (possible via in-app editing or via Excel file upload)
- Manual Emissions, for entering the value for manual emissions
When running the calculation, the application leverages the imported master and transactional activity data, the mapped emission factors for purchased products, as well as the energy flow model and allocation rules that have been setup previously, to calculate the footprints.
Calculating Product Footprints
The second option provides quick insights into a plant's product footprints by uploading a Bill of Material (BOM)-like Excel file, excluding incoming emissions from energy flow models or other sources. The template can be downloaded in the application directly and the following information need to be provided:
- Material direction (in or out of production)
- Material role (raw, by product, semi, or main product)
- Material Unit of Measure (e.g. Kilogram or liter)
For both calculation options, business logs are available that provide business messages, such as errors and warnings. More information on the calculation can be found in SAP Help: Using the Calculate Footprints Application.
