Managing Metrics

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to use the Manage Metrics App for configuring sustainability metrics.

Overview

The sustainability metrics in SAP Sustainability Control Tower support many of the core metrics defined in the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). Also, the Manage Metrics app enables you to add custom metrics, depending on your business needs.

Sustainability metrics are classified into four major areas:

  • Environmental
  • Social
  • Governance
  • Economic

Use these metrics to measure your organization's performance in the areas of environmental, social, and corporate governance, and also economic.

The sustainability metrics enable you to identify trends over time, by showing how a specific metric's value increases or decreases. Whether an increase or decrease is desirable depends on the type of metric. For example, a decrease in CO2 emissions has a positive sustainability impact, whereas a decrease in community investments does not.

SAP Sustainability Control Tower provides a wide range of sustainability metrics under the Environmental, Social, and Governance ( ESG) framework. Within the environmental category, for instance, the metric "Gross GHG Emissions - Scope 1" is available. This metric calculates an organization's direct emissions in a manner that is customizable to the organization's data reporting cycle. You can define targets that a given metric fulfills at a given time period.

The Manage Metrics App

Use the Manage Metrics app to configure sustainability metrics that enable measuring your organization's ESG and economic performance.

Sustainability metrics can be used for recording your company’s targets. This enables you to understand performance in achieving a set of strategic ambitions for a particular metric. There are various sustainability metrics in SAP Sustainability Control Tower, such as employee wages and benefits, net investments, and water consumption.

Prerequisites

If you plan to use other systems, such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud or SAP S/4HANA to upload data in the Manage ESG Data app for sustainability metrics based on financial records, ensure that you configure the source system as a destination in your SAP Business Technology Platform subaccount and that you upload the required master data to SAP Sustainability Control Tower.

You can find the roles you need for viewing, configuring, or uploading data in the following table.

RoleView the CatalogConfigure MetricsUpload Data
SUS_SCT_Sustainability_Metrics_Catalogue_ReaderYesYesYes
SUS_SCT_Sustainability_Metrics_Catalogue_Configuration_ManagerNoYesNo
SUS_SCT_Sustainability_metrics_Catalogue_Data_ManagerNoNoYes

If you want to learn more about integrating various source systems with SAP Sustainability Control Tower, followIntegrations | SAP Help Portal

Application Details

Configure any of the available metrics by assigning a reporting hierarchy to each, activating the KPI tile on the SAP Fiori launchpad to keep an eye on the progress, and setting an ambition for them. You can create customized groups of ambitions tailored to your business needs.

In addition to the predefined metrics, you can create your own by defining the applicable area (economic, environmental, governance, or social performance), which measures to use, and the method for calculating the progress of the metric.

Types of Sustainability Metrics

You can choose between three types of sustainability metrics:

  • SAP-provided: Any of the sustainability metrics as mentioned in Metrics in the Help Portal Documentation. The metric details, such as title, measures used, or calculation method, cannot be edited once the metric is created.
  • Basic: A user-defined metric without a calculation based on a measure. You can choose between the calculation methods sum or weighted average. Once you have created the metric, you can edit the title, area, calculation method, and unit of measure.
  • Advanced: A user-defined metric that is calculated from measures. You can choose between the calculation methods division, sum, or weighted average. Once you create the metric, you can edit the title, area, calculation method, and unit of measure.

Define Custom Metric

Read Using the Manage Metrics Application | SAP Help Portalto learn about Custom Metric.

How to Create a Custom Metric

The following video shows how to create a custom metric using the Manage Metrics app.

Note

SAP Sustainability Control Tower is undergoing ongoing enhancements. Therefore, you may observe updated screens in the video in the next iteration of this training.

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