The need for extensive carbon reduction affects every company and results in demand for highly accurate carbon footprints to manage environmental impacts of business. SAP has various sustainability solutions to respond to the market need on climate action. These solutions focus on managing disclosure, compliance, and risk, to digitizing and automating sustainability processes, and ultimately maximizing sustainability performance and action.
The various SAP sustainability solutions are explained as follows:
- SAP Sustainability Footprint Management helps you calculate your corporate and product carbon footprints across GHG Scope 1, 2, and 3 and embed the results into your existing business processes to drive decarbonization.
- SAP Environmental, Health, and Safety - Environmental Management (EHS EM) ensures you stay compliant with emissions and permit related environmental regulations. EHS EM encompasses all aspects of environmental compliance along with management of an organization's impact on the environment, including air and water pollution, GHG emission inventory, and waste management.
- SAP Sustainability Data Exchange engages with your suppliers and requests and receives accurate footprint calculation from SAP Sustainability Footprint Management. SAP Sustainability Data Exchange is a new solution and uses the carbon data interoperability standards established by the Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT), hosted by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
- SAP Sustainability Control Tower helps you monitor and steer Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) targets as well as report on your sustainability performance beyond carbon (for example it also covers Diversity and Equality KPIs). Through the integration with SAP Sustainability Control Tower, corporate footprints that are calculated with SAP Sustainability Footprint Management can now also be integrated into the overall sustainability reporting and used for company-wide holistic ESG reporting and steering.
- SAP Green Ledger is the SAP’s ledger-based carbon accounting method. It enables you to post carbon quantities next to financial data in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Finance. At the time of writing, the SAP Green Ledger is not publicly available. For updates, check the Product Availability Matrix.Product Availability Matrix
The focus of this training is on SAP Sustainability Footprint Management. SAP Sustainability Footprint Management is embedded into a modular, end-to-end carbon management portfolio, and it focuses on transactional carbon accounting and footprint calculations. By utilizing SAP Sustainability Footprint Management, companies can effectively streamline their decarbonization efforts and ensure they are able to accurately measure and reduce their carbon footprint in a systematic and transparent manner.
With SAP Sustainability Footprint Management, you can decarbonize your value chain and quickly get the complete picture of your carbon footprint. The calculations integrate supplier data and existing ERP business data, significantly improving the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of emissions calculations and management.