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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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Five Sustainability Trends to WatchJan 13, 2023 — There is a new, fervent push for companies to prioritize environmental and sustainability concerns. While these initiatives are important, organizations must also balance their financial responsibilities with those new shareholders demands for environmental responsibility.
In recent years, five major trends have emerged on how organizations factor sustainability into their overall strategy and how this impacts Finance and the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) function.
In this article, you will learn how regulatory and investor demand is shaping the ESG conversation. You will also read about how the transition away from fossil fuels offers savvy businesses an opportunity for additional profitability and savings, as well as some of the SAP solutions that can help organizations navigate the new ESG landscape.
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How Organizations Can Achieve Enterprise SustainabilityJan 13, 2023 — Sustainability is more than just a buzzword. It is a key element of the ESG (environment, social, and governance) puzzle. Organizations can no longer merely pay it lip service. Today, sustainability efforts must satisfy employees and shareholders, and provide a global positive impact. Sustainability discussions today often begin and end around the measure of a carbon footprint. But more and more, organizations are taking a holistic view of sustainability. This means extending the concept beyond environmental impact and ensuring the long-term well-being of employees and partners. In this article, you will learn how organizations can adopt a philosophy known as “enterprise sustainability” as a way of taking that holistic view of sustainability. Enterprise sustainability which strives to bring scalable processes, strategies, and tactics without compromising the future.
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SAP Sustainability Control Tower: Integrating A Suite of Technologies to Enhance ESG ReportingJan 9, 2023 — This article provides an overview of SAP’s Sustainability Performance Management goals and focuses on holistic steering and reporting with SAP Sustainability Control Tower (SAP SCT). The article highlights SAP SCT’s value proposition and growing vitality, and its positioning as the perfect partner for companies to monitor and report their Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals.
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Gamifying SustainabilityJan 9, 2023 — Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are an increasingly significant part of the decision-making process for organizations. It can be difficult to for organizations to forecast the impact of some of these decisions. Some are now turning to gamified simulations to play out scenarios. Baton Simulations offers its ERPsim solution to gain insights into the role that ESG data will play in the future.
After nearly 100 sessions with thousands of participants, Baton Simulations CEO Guy Couillard compiled some key observations from the simulations. In this article, you will learn some of the key takeaways and how they impact businesses going forward. They include insights on the pervasiveness of carbon emissions KPIs, the need for new organizational roles and behaviors around carbon analytics, machine learning applications, and more.
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SAP Capabilities and Solutions for a Sustainable PlanetSep 29, 2022 — In this article, we will explore SAP capabilities and solutions. In 2022, SAP turned 50. During these 50 years, the company led, partnered with, and enabled hundreds of thousands of customers globally.
SAP’s solutions and capabilities are designed to transform businesses not simply to “Intelligent Enterprises,” but to intelligent and sustainable enterprises.
The overarching goal is to make Planet Earth a better place to live in. SAP enables companies to meet both local and global environmental and social governance (ESG) standards. They’re able to proactively address the concerns and rising pressure from investors, customers, regulators, and their own employees. Sustainability is embedded in many of the solutions. That sustainability is manifested in a variety of ways by core components of SAP RISE – the framework and enabler of enterprise transformation into intelligent and sustainable enterprises.
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SAP Enterprise Adoption Is GrowingOct 5, 2021 — With the advent of SAP S/4HANA and the cloud, enterprise adoption has changed and accelerated. SAP customers need more from their software strategies and investments in order to digitally transform, but they are faced with multiple challenges, including a need to balance business needs, remain compliant with global and local regulations, and enable and empower their workforce in an ever-changing environment continually subject to disruption.
SAPinsider’s Chief Research Officer Rizal Ahmed sat down with SAP’s Global Head of SAP Enterprise Adoption, Eva Zauke, to learn about why SAP customers are adopting today.
Global expansion, says Zauke, is becoming a growing trend among enterprises that want to transform and continue on their intelligent enterprise journey.
The value benefits of business and technology adoption the way Zauke sees them are similar to those that can be achieved by the intelligent enterprise — enabling customers to make impactful changes to run their business and in turn become more resilient, perform better, and be more sustainable — in essence, a best-run business.
Resiliency – With ongoing global requirements and constantly evolving local legislations and regulations, Zauke defines this as the ability to adapt quickly.
Performance – This can be measured in two facets: The efficiency of digital processes (i.e., tax reporting, invoicing, exchange of documents) and employee performance.
Sustainability – SAP contributes to sustainability in the areas of reduction and optimizing the carbon footprint by reporting on respective regulations and also by helping companies manage the resource of the employee and evolving the digital transformation in a sustainable way.
Watch this video and learn about SAP’s goals around enterprise adoption and how SAP is helping customers achieve theirs.
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SAP Customers Expand Global FootprintsSep 30, 2021 — A popular approach for enterprises that want to transform – developing a global presence – is driving technology adoption. SAPinsider’s Chief Research Officer, Riz Ahmed, sat down with SAP’s Global Head of SAP Enterprise Adoption, Eva Zauke, to better understand this trend.
According to Zauke, “the intelligent enterprise needs to do more than just span processes and technologies — it needs to span companies’ global and local footprints, their presence in their respective countries, global supply chains, as well as span the entire workforce.” Organizational adoption of SAP solutions, she says, is a key lever to achieve desired business outcomes.
The value benefits of business and technology adoption the way Zauke sees them include the following:
- Resiliency. With ongoing global requirements and constantly evolving local legislations and regulations, Zauke defines this as the ability to adapt quickly.
- Performance. This can be measured in two facets: The efficiency of digital processes (i.e., tax reporting, invoicing, exchange of documents) and employee performance.
- Sustainability. SAP contributes to sustainability in the areas of reduction and optimizing the carbon footprint by reporting on respective regulations and also by helping companies manage the resource of the employee and evolving the digital transformation in a sustainable way.
Read this executive article, which appears in SAPinsider's 2021 September Executive Magazine, and learn:
- The impact that global expansion is having on SAP customers’ intelligent enterprise journeys and business strategies;
- Accelerators of technology adoption, where SAP S/4HANA sits, and effective skillsets that can support transformation; and
- Zauke's advice for operating locally and globally and becoming a best-run business.
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How Businesses Can Benefit From the Digital Twin of Our PlanetMay 21, 2021 — Preserving the delicate ecosystem of our precious planet has become one of the urgent imperatives. Though humankind has done significant damage to the delicate balance of earth’s ecosystem, the positive news is that the awareness of the urgency to undo the damage has increased significantly. Companies are playing their part by trying to balance their corporate objectives with environmental impact. However, just like the initiatives we undertake in the corporate world, it is important to understand the current state of our ecosystem and environment. Currently, environmental models are fragmented across research institutes and universities across the world. Though these institutes and agencies collaborate with each other, what is needed is one comprehensive picture of the current state of the environment. This article discusses how a digital twin of our planet can help businesses.
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SAPPHIRE NOW 2018, Day 3: How SAP Technologies Are Improving People’s LivesJun 12, 2018 — While machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotics technologies have certainly been lauded for the time savings and productivity gains they can bring to the digital business world, often overlooked is what these technologies can do for people in a humanitarian sense. This was not the case during the closing keynote at SAPPHIRE NOW 2018, which […]
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Empathy Leading SAP’s Effort to Help Companies Run LiveMay 18, 2016 — ORLANDO, Florida — Empathy was the main theme emanating from SAP CEO Bill McDermott’s keynote presentation before an announced record-setting crowd of 30,000 attendees at Tuesday’s opening day of SAPPHIRE NOW 2016. The overriding goal for SAP, McDermott said, is to demonstrate an unmatched level of passion, energy, and empathy for the customer. That alone, […]
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