Managing Energy Flows and Planned Energy Consumption Rates

The figure outlines the process of tracking and calculating energy consumption and emissions for a company, from setting operational boundaries to reviewing the results in CO2 equivalents.

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Step 4: Upload Emission Factor Packages

After creating the calculation variants and production document emission distribution to products, you can either upload new packages or reuse existing ones, such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emission factor package.

Step 5: Create Energy Carrier and Source Resources

Then create energy carrier and energy source for the plant, ensuring that the energy carrier is uniquely linked to the energy source. Maintain the planned energy consumption rate for the resource based on forecasted energy carrier consumption. If actual energy bills are to be used, the complete energy flow model linking the energy sources to the resources through meters is used. This figure shows a section of the SAP model energy flows interface specifically highlighting energy carriers such as cooling water, electricity, and gas along with their respective units of measure.

This figure displays an interface from SAP Model Energy Flows showcasing a list of energy sources, their valid periods, and associated energy carriers and plant assignments.

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Energy Flow models with meters linking energy sources to resources and energy flow models without meters but with planned consumption rate can be modeled together. Ensure in the calculation variant you choose the Distribute Total Energy Consumption option.

Step 6: Import/Replicate Transactional Data

Next, you import or replicate the transactional data such as a service confirmation of the resources for the production document, goods issue to production and goods received from production, filling in the quantity or amount based on the chosen calculation variant. This figure displays the completed status of various business transactions for April 2023 within the Monthly Footprint rolling scope, including details such as the number of records and import times.

From the list of imported transactions, you can click Goods Issue for Production to see the details of raw materials or inputs issued for the production process. For instance, you can see that 5 kilograms of strawberries were issued against the production document 1301 to produce strawberry cake. This figure shows a list of goods issued for production at the Almika Bakery Munich plant, with details on product type, quantity, and consistency status.

Similarly, you can see the details of goods receipt from production. Here you see that 50 pieces of strawberry cake were produced from the raw material issued to the production process. In addition, note that the amount field is empty. This is because we used Physical Allocation when creating the calculation variant and not Economic Allocation. If you would like to use the Economic Allocation, you need to replicate or upload price of the cake. This figure displays a goods receipt from production for Aimika Bakery Munich, showing consistent quantities of products including Biscuits and Strawberry Cake for April 2023.

To view the details of service confirmation, select the imported service confirmations. You can see that for the production document 1301, the baking activity ran for 25 minutes on the resource fruitcake assembly. This figure shows the internal service confirmation details of various baking activities at Aiumka Bakery Munich for April 2023, including resource quantities, production documents, resources used, and consistency status.

In the next lesson, you will deep dive into the periodic footprint calculations, checking data readiness and reviewing the results of CO2 equivalents, which are the last three steps of the overall process flow.