Managing Purchased Product Footprints using Artificial Intelligence (AI)

In this lesson, you'll focus on steps five and six of the overall process flow. You will explore the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to map emission factors to products and product groups. The Manage Emission Factors app utilizes AI to propose mappings based on imported emission factors, significantly reducing manual effort. You'll also learn to manually map purchased products when necessary.

In the Manage Purchased Product Footprints app, the Products Without Footprints and Product Groups Without Footprints tabs display products and product groups without assigned emission factors. To include these in your calculations, you must map them to emission factors. You can view more details about a specific product or product group by selecting it in the table, which is helpful for identifying the plants to which the product or product group is assigned.

The video shows how to use AI to map emission factors to purchased products and purchased product groups.

To learn more about using AI to map emission factors with purchased products and purchased product groups, follow the link Using AI to Map Purchased Products and Purchased Product Groups | SAP Help Portal.

You can manually map emission factors to purchased products and product groups if you know the emission factor values or if you have the support of a Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) expert to calculate emissions. You can use the Manage Purchased Product Footprints app to do so.

The video shows the steps to manually map purchased products and product groups without footprints are listed below:

To display products and product groups where data is mapped, navigate to the Released Footprints tab.

If you haven't specified a plant for a purchased product footprint, a single purchased product footprint is created that is applicable for all plants and suppliers maintained in the master data.

In a product group with released footprints, the quantity dimension is defaulted to Net Weight (Product UoM), which you can choose to update.

If you select a purchased product or product group to map, but do not provide the necessary data, they will not be mapped and will remain in the Products Without Footprints and Product Groups Without Footprints tabs.