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What Is Sustainability?
Sustainability means meeting our own needs without compromising the future of generations to meet their own needs.
It is inclusive of not only natural resources but also social and economic resources. Sustainability is all about the slight changes we can each make to look after our planet, like working toward zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality.
What Is Sustainability?
Sustainability means meeting our own needs without compromising the future of generations to meet their own needs.
It is inclusive of not only natural resources but also social and economic resources. Sustainability is all about the slight changes we can each make to look after our planet, like working toward zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality.
What Is SAP Sustainability?
Four areas of SAP solutions for sustainability are:
- Sustainability and ESG Reporting: Add environmental, social, and governance (ESG) to finance real-time data reporting.
- Climate Change: Reduce carbon footprint and minimize greenhouse gas emissions with embedded analytics.
- Circular Economy: Design products with sustainability, eliminate waste, and build a sustainable supply chain.
- Social Responsibility: Integrate ethical and social responsibility into sustainable business practices.
The importance of sustainability is to improve environmental quality. The goal is to improve our existence without depleting natural resources for the future and improve the quality of our lives. But from a business perspective it adds brand value, meets consumer demands, increases efficiency, and creates new opportunities.
A comprehensive cloud solution can help to integrate real-time data and processes to manage your carbon footprint, reduce waste, and achieve social sustainability.
Enterprise solutions from SAP to provide specific sustainability features include:
- ERP Cloud: SAP S/4HANA embeds sustainability into core processes to improve data, insights, and visibility.
- Business Technology Platform: A foundation for a sustainable enterprise by integrating applications into business networks.
- Supply Chain Management: Supports sustainability and governance in the product lifecycle.
- Business Network: Increases transparency, reach, and effectiveness into sustainability initiatives.
- Cloud Analytics: Unifies BI, analytics, and planning to provide insights from sustainability-related data.
- Implementation Services: Bridges the gap between business strategy and execution.
Vendor partners to support your sustainability intelligence efforts are: SAP, FORCAM, and Baton Simulations.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders are:
- SAP Customers Expand Global Footprints. Review this article to learn about SAP’s vision to help the world run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. Intelligent enterprises today are doing more than just spanning companies processes and technologies; they span global and local footprints and entire workforces.
- Don’t Let Your Sustainability Footprint Leave You Behind. Read the Q&A with FORCAM and learn how global sustainability and SAP customers can make an impact.
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Path to Cloud Excellence Starts With CloudpathsMay 14, 2024 — Microsoft's supply chain engineering organization has quadrupled in size, focusing on technology innovation and testing generative AI solutions. With a keen focus on empowering employees and leveraging the golden triangle of people, process, and technology, Microsoft aims to standardize processes and build capabilities to support their exponential growth.
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A Sustainable Supply Chain TransformationMay 14, 2024 — Dhaval Desai, Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft, spearheads a remarkable sustainable supply chain transformation within the tech giant, leading to substantial gains in productivity and cost avoidance. Leveraging his experience and cross-industry insights, Desai's team revolutionizes supply chain management, driving efficiencies, enabling growth, and aligning with sustainability goals.
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Sustainable CTOs Balance Sustainability and DigitalizationJul 6, 2023 — Intel takes a central role in the challenge to balance sustainability and digitalization. AS the 2030 deadline to reduce CO2 emissions gets closer, pressure is intensifying on organizations to make meaningful contributions to climate action. At the same time, they must manage the increasing demand for computing power to accommodate new technology like AI, automation, IoT, and edge computing.
Finding the balance between climate action and digital growth has become imperative for progress writes Greg Lavender, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and General Manager of the Software and Advanced Technology Group at Intel Corporation.
While global computing contributes to carbon emissions and electronic waste, global computing also holds the answer to this problem. The challenge lies in sustainably meeting the growing demand for computing performance and transforming organizations and business models to create a cleaner, greener, and nature-positive future.
Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) assume a pivotal role in aligning business strategy, technology, and sustainability. Their comprehensive, long-term view drives the necessary changes within their organizations. This transformation requires reducing IT-related emissions and harnessing technology's power to revolutionize business practices.
To support this transformative journey, Intel has launched the Sustainable CTO Initiative, aimed at uniting the global CTO community. This initiative fosters knowledge exchange, insights, and best practices to for a tech-positive future.
A global study conducted by Intel shows the challenges as well as the potential of technology to achieve net-zero emissions and sustainable transformation. Most senior IT leaders recognize the pivotal role of technology in their organizations' sustainability strategies. Aspiring to become sustainability leaders themselves, they acknowledge the potential of CTOs to drive sustainability within organizations. Technological transformation can lead us towards a greener, fairer, and smarter future with the support of CTOs and CIOs that embrace a tech-positive approach.
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SAPinsider Magazine: Sustainability, Spring 2023Feb 15, 2023 — The Spring issue of SAPinsider magazine provides readers with relevant insights for advancing sustainability at all levels of an organization, as well as many other trends within the SAP marketplace. In this issue, SAPinsider sat down with SAP’s Chief Strategy Officer, Sebastian Steinhaeuser, who provides his views on how sustainability is embedded into SAP’s business strategy and using sustainability data for decision-making.
The magazine also features key information on SAP S/4HANA adoption rates and how the looming SAP maintenance deadline affects SAP users. This edition brings to light Microsoft Canada and SAP’s collaborative approach to optimizing RISE with SAP for Microsoft Azure and renders insights on Worksoft’s Process Intelligence for radical operational efficiency and excellence.
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Design for a Circular BusinessFeb 15, 2023 — Organizations are increasingly facing the burden of solving or at least reducing the climate crisis. Businesses must consider new ways to reduce their carbon emissions and produce less waste. One of the leading solutions is to implement a circular economy. This involves reshaping the flow of materials around the world, creating items that can be easily deconstructed and returned, which can take advantage of recaptured materials and reduce reliance on single-use materials and packaging.
In this article, you will gain important insights from SAP on how organizations can being to implement a circular business model and help contribute to creating a more sustainable world for the future. It contains tips on solving for single-use plastic, leveraging technology, reusability, and even how companies can actually profit from circularity.
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Nine ESG Actions CFOs and Finance Leaders Can Take TodayFeb 15, 2023 — Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy and reporting are taking center stage as a top priority of many businesses today. Because of their position within the organization, CFOs are uniquely qualified to take action on such ESG initiatives. Yet many feel they are underprepared or unqualified to take the steps needed to enact ESG initiatives.
In this article, you will learn nine key actions that CFOs and other business leaders should take when they begin to implement formal ESG strategies and reporting in accordance with regulations and best practices.
As with any other long-term initiative, planning is key. However, leaders must also be prepared for plans to change, and have flexibility built into any roadmap. It is also crucial that leaders are ready for any audits that come there way, know how to designate their ESG data resources, and engage with a broad group of stakeholders.
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Green IT = Sustainable BusinessesFeb 2, 2023 — Sustainability should be the new headline for everything humans do. Sustainability means fulfilling current generations’ needs without compromising the needs of future generations. However, this is difficult to achieve. Sustainability issues have already started to affect our lives and our economies. This article explains how sustainability issues are affecting business operations and how IT can help to address and mitigate future risks. It recognizes that IT is part of the problem but also a part of the solution and highlights that the technology leaders play a pivotal role in achieving a sustainable IT for environmental stability and business success. But the journey to a sustainable IT is a marathon not a sprint. It requires a clear goal, sufficient data, and application for monitoring and reporting, and commitment, conviction, and actions from all stakeholders.
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Building a Renewable Enterprise on Your Terms and Timeline with Your Cloud ProviderFeb 9, 2023 — Organizations today have an unprecedented opportunity to redefine their enterprise including new and more agile methods of working and boost innovation. But they must also enhance customer experiences while realizing new revenue opportunities and reducing cost. This is also an opportunity to build a platform for sustainable innovation or disruptive innovation. But does your organization fully understand the problems you are trying to address?
RISE with SAP offers the opportunity to digitally transform your business into an intelligent enterprise on your terms and using your timeline. Working together with SAP, Capgemini can provide an accelerated path to the value and flexibility you need without up-front capital expenditure. We engage with business teams to understand your needs and challenge assumptions, look at the solutions that will address those challenges, and implement technologies that will drive success.
Attend this webinar to:
Learn how to successfully drive your move to RISE with SAP
Explore the capabilities of the solution to support innovation
Gain access to SAPInsider’s RISE with SAP report
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