Explain Industry-Specific & Sustainable Characteristics of SAP Solutions

For over 50 years, SAP has been working hand in hand with customers across a variety of industries and using this expertise to benchmark and define best-in-class, industry-specific processes. In addition, SAP has embedded sustainability insights into our end-to-end business processes to support customers in making sustainability core to their businesses.

SAP's industry-specific business processes cover the following industries:

• Discrete Industries
• Energy and Natural Resources
• Financial Services
• Service Industries
• Consumer Industries
• Public Services

Many of our partners have developed specialized industry cloud solutions that can be easily integrated with a customer's Cloud ERP via SAP Business Technology Platform. These solutions are in the SAP Store.

SAP has embedded sustainability insights into our end-to-end business processes to make it possible for customers to make sustainability core to their business. For a deeper level of reporting and governance across an organization's value chain, SAP Sustainability solutions are a suite of applications designed to help customers in regulatory compliance, real-time insights, and sustainable future growth. Customers can proactively ensure they are compliant with global and local regulations, taxation, and sanctions through the deep transparency into financial and non-financial data.

The real-time data across the entire solution can be used to assess your actual carbon footprint and learn where to improve.

For example, designing a circular business model where waste is reduced and/or reused as much as possible, with the ultimate goal of creating zero waste. If zero waste isn't possible for a particular use case, customers can support a local facility that burns approved materials to create renewable energy, rather than burying the waste in a landfill that produces carbon dioxide and methane as it decomposes. In addition, all materials involved in the production of semifinished and finished goods should be grown and/or gathered in a responsible way, with the employees working with these materials at every step in the process being paid a fair, livable wage in safe work conditions.

Often, the people involved in growing and gathering raw materials can be overlooked, and native plants or trees are removed in favor of growing materials that can be sold for profit. With detailed and descriptive data about each step of the production process, businesses can make thoughtful, informed decisions that have a real impact at a human and environmental level, while even identifying new sustainable products, services, and solutions they wouldn't have originally thought of.

SAP Sustainability solutions are a suite of applications to help customers manage their carbon footprint, reduce materials waste, and become a socially responsible business, including:

• SAP Sustainability Control Tower enables customers to define their own organization-specific targets and track performance with a set of data management and performance insight tools targeted to helping businesses understand their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data.
• SAP Sustainability Footprint Management and SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management enable customers to reduce the carbon footprint of their entire value chain based on actual business transactions.
• SAP Responsible Design and Production and SAP Green Token enable customers to build a circular supply chain where the business finds ways to reuse its own outputs to create as little waste as possible.
• SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management and SAP S/4HANA for product compliance enable customers to understand the impact of their business on people and society in a larger context.