The production of nearly every product and even the use of a specific product causes a carbon footprint. Your company should monitor the carbon footprint for all of your products. This monitoring offers the possibility to optimize your product life cycles to decrease the amount of created greenhouse gas emissions. That is where SAP Product Footprint Management comes in. With SAP Product Footprint Management, you can monitor and manage your carbon footprints. Based on these insights, you are able to optimize your greenhouse gas emissions with your product lifecycles.
SAP Product Footprint Management
With SAP Product Footprint Management, you have a solution to handle your footprints through the following capabilities:
- Integrate with supported business systems
- SAP Product Footprint Management supports the integration with business systems (for example, SAP S/4HANA Cloud) to import your business data. Through that, you can extend your default capabilities from your SAP S/4HANA with additional capabilities for product footprint management.
- Publish footprint information
- SAP Product Footprint Management allows you to publish footprint information as master data to supported business systems.
- Import emission factors
Import emission factors from sources like Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) databases to the solution. You can import data from multiple third-party sources to suit your business needs.
- Run calculations and monitor footprints
Use a calculation template to run mass calculations for product footprints and monitor the results.
- Perform footprint analytics
Get an insight into your product footprints by leveraging the analytics services provided by SAP Product Footprint Management.
More Information about SAP Product Footprint Management here. You can also watch this short overview video.
SAP Product Footprint Management: Analyze Carbon Footprint
After having collected business data and relevant emission factors, the foundation is laid for the calculation of the footprints. SAP Product Footprint Management offers a pre-configured calculation template to define the scope you want to include in the calculation. The template selects a subset of business activity data needed for the calculation run. For material acquisition, this data includes quantity of purchased materials from suppliers, stock transfers from other plants, and purchased materials consumed in manufactured products for the period. The products are then associated with the emission factors from the LCI database to enable bottom-up footprint calculation. This association is done via pre-shipped templates of mapping tables, which can be configured by sustainability experts allowing them to determine the best match of business data and emission factors based on material, supplier, country, and material commodity code characteristics.
After successfully running the calculation, the Monitor Footprints application lets you view the calculated footprint results. The footprint results are displayed per product type, per unit, and in total, and are broken down on different granularity levels like, for example, suppliers of purchased materials. Moreover, a consistent monthly average is calculated automatically. You can also compare the footprints across the periods so that you can observe trends. To make the footprints available in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, or to SAP S/4HANA, this application also lets you publish the footprints to these business systems.
