SAP Sustainability Solutions: Greater sustainability all down the line

With the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) adopted by the European Union, significantly more EU companies will have to expand their reporting to include environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) aspects starting in 2025. The SAP Sustainability Portfolio provides comprehensive support for this. The SAP Sustainability Control Tower solution offers a holistic approach to greater ESG transparency, which can be used, among other things, for sustainability reports. The SAP Sustainability Footprint Management solution, on the other hand, periodically calculates the CO₂ footprint by product, business activity, and mode of transportation and contributes to decarbonizing your value chain. valantic will provide expert advice and serve as your partner to realize your sustainability solutions. Our experts will help you in all phases of your project – from conception to implementation.

To navigate the complex landscape of sustainability reporting, companies need dedicated strategies and tools. Because there is a great need for action: Those who fail to comply with their reporting duties risk significant fines and damage to their image. But systematic emissions management also offers competitive advantages – not only for reporting companies: It helps to conserve resources, reduce costs, and drive innovation. In addition, transparent ESG reporting not only strengthens the trust of stakeholders and investors, but also the image for customers and potential employees. Finally, transparent emissions data serves as the basis for sound strategic decisions in corporate governance. All are important aspects for strengthening a company’s competitiveness.

SAP’s modular sustainability portfolio reflects all emissions management requirements. It offers a high degree of automation, and, according to experts, it is one of the leading ESG reporting technologies. In addition, the architecture of SAP sustainability solutions ensures seamless integration with existing applications, facilitating direct access to various internal, external, and third-party data sources. Additional benefits for sustainability reporting include turnkey integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and with SAP Analytics Cloud.

SAP Sustainability Control Tower (SAP SCT) is a cloud solution for holistic ESG reporting. The platform serves as a comprehensive tool for monitoring and managing sustainability performance. It automates the aggregation of environmental, social, and governance data from multiple sources, making it easier to analyze and visualize reporting-relevant information: SAP SCT not only enables data import from SAP applications such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Sustainability Footprint Management, and SAP Environment, Health and Safety. It’s also easy to connect third-party systems to the solution.

The solution runs on the SAP Business Technology Platform, provides real-time insights, and actively helps with control and decision-making processes. Custom dashboards and reports enable various stakeholders to better understand their ESG goals and identify immediate needs for action. These are crucial levers for implementing the required sustainability reporting and ensuring low-CO₂ business processes.

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By providing periodic emissions data, the cloud solution shows, for example, in which production phase a particularly large amount of greenhouse gas is emitted. This is how it helps companies make informed decisions about ways to decarbonize their supply chain. The information about the carbon footprint can be integrated seamlessly into central business processes. This creates a better understanding of the product portfolio’s CO₂ footprint within the organization. At the same time, SAP SFM minimizes the cost of calculating, analyzing, and reporting product-specific emissions.

SAP SFM runs on the SAP Business Technology Platform and can be integrated with other SAP sustainability solutions, such as SAP Sustainability Control Tower and SAP Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS).

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valantic helps customers from different industries with their sustainability transformation. Our experts provide comprehensive support – from determining your company’s current state to developing an ESG strategy to implementing digital technologies for their implementation. With our extensive expertise in end-to-end networked business processes, we address all stages of your company’s value chain.

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