Jan 18, 2023
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SAP Sustainability
SAP Sustainability covers the tools, strategies and reporting frameworks that organizations use to manage environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals within their SAP landscapes. As regulatory requirements for sustainability reporting expand globally, SAP has embedded sustainability capabilities across its ERP and analytics products. SAPinsider covers SAP sustainability tools and trends, including ESG reporting, carbon tracking and supply chain transparency.
What is SAP Sustainability?
SAP Sustainability refers to the set of SAP solutions and capabilities that help organizations measure, manage and report on their environmental and social impact. Key products include SAP Sustainability Control Tower for carbon tracking, SAP Sustainability Footprint Management for product-level emissions data and SAP Responsible Design and Production for lifecycle reporting. These tools connect to SAP S/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud to enable integrated sustainability reporting alongside core financial and operational data.
What use cases does SAP Sustainability address?
- ESG reporting and disclosure: Organizations use SAP Sustainability Control Tower and integrated analytics to compile and report ESG data in compliance with frameworks such as the EU CSRD, GRI standards and SEC climate disclosure rules.
- Carbon footprint management: SAP Sustainability Footprint Management calculates product and corporate carbon footprints using primary supplier data, enabling organizations to identify emissions hotspots and track reduction progress.
- Supply chain transparency: SAP Business Network for sustainability connects organizations with suppliers to collect and verify emissions and responsible sourcing data throughout the supply chain.
- Circular economy and waste reduction: SAP Responsible Design and Production supports organizations in designing products for recyclability and tracking packaging obligations across markets.
What does SAPinsider research say about SAP Sustainability?
SAPinsider research shows that sustainability reporting has moved from a voluntary initiative to a regulatory and boardroom priority, driving rapid adoption of SAP sustainability tools. Organizations are integrating sustainability data into ERP workflows to ensure that ESG disclosures are grounded in the same data used for financial reporting. Browse SAPinsider sustainability resources and research at SAP Sustainability.
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Five Sustainability Trends to WatchThere 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.
Jan 13, 2023
•3 minute read
How Organizations Can Achieve Enterprise SustainabilitySustainability 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.
Jan 13, 2023
•7 minute read
SAP Sustainability Control Tower: Integrating A Suite of Technologies to Enhance ESG ReportingThis 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.
Jan 9, 2023
•3 minute read
Gamifying SustainabilityEnvironmental, 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.
Jan 9, 2023
•7 minute read
SAP Capabilities and Solutions for a Sustainable PlanetIn 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.
Sep 29, 2022
•6 minute read
SAP Enterprise Adoption Is GrowingWith 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.
Oct 5, 2021
•1 minute read
SAP Customers Expand Global FootprintsA 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.
Sep 30, 2021
•6 minute read
How Businesses Can Benefit From the Digital Twin of Our PlanetPreserving 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.
May 21, 2021
•2 minute read
SAPPHIRE NOW 2018, Day 3: How SAP Technologies Are Improving People’s LivesWhile 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 […]
Jun 12, 2018
•5 minute read
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