SAP sustainable digital innovation solutions lead global green development

SAP has long been committed to empowering green development with digital innovation.

As the world's leading provider of enterprise application software, SAP has embraced sustainable development as a long-term strategy since 2000, and has become one of the pivotal drivers for the digital and green economy. SAP has launched two generations of digital sustainability solutions. The debut was the 2009 on-premise version, and the next-generation solution., SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises, went live in 2021. SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises consists of four components, namely, Climate Action for Zero Carbon, Circular Economy Solution for Zero Waste. Social Responsibility Solution for Zero Comprehensive Reporting Inequality, and Solution for Zero Invisibility. SAP solutions for sustainability innovate a reliable and effective data foundation for ESG practices by enabling data transparency across the value chain, industry chain, and business networks. SAP solutions for sustainability innovate a new path to a green economy by enabling the right balance between the bottom line and the green line.

SAP Carbon Emissions Management Solution Helps Enterprises Accurately Calculate Carbon Emissions

The Austria-based fireproof material company is struggling with high energy consumption. With a portfolio of 15,000 products to produce, it has an average carbon emission of 200,000 tons from each of its 35 factories across the world. The company has to deal with two key challenges: one is to collect emission data from business processes and calculate the carbon footprint in a precise and efficient manner. The other is to deploy a carbon accounting system that meets the requirements of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). By using the automated carbon management solutions from SAP, it is now able to collect carbon emission data in accordance with laws, regulations, and corporate policies, and bring together all the data for comprehensive calculation with the results produced at the kilogram level. Also, in response to EU ETS requirements, the company can now manage carbon credit accounts, record carbon dioxide certificate transactions, and adjust the allocation of carbon credits at the enterprise level using the prediction functionality.

Embedded Carbon Reduction Digital Solutions Comprehensively Enhance the Competitiveness of Enterprises

The world-leading German food ingredient supplier has now increased its competitiveness with the help of SAP systems. It can conduct carbon footprint analysis over more than 5,000 materials and 20,000 products. And it has gained the flexibility to adjust production layout and procurement portfolio, and dynamically perform predictive calculations on carbon footprint, production, and cost of sales while meeting regulatory requirements in 130 countries.

"Panjin Index" Builds a Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Goals Platform and Leads the City's Sustainable Development Goal

On June 9, 2022, the "Panjin Index" framework was officially released at the SAP Sustainability Summit. This is one of the earliest comprehensive indexes of sustainable development released by Chinese cities under the background of the "Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Goals" and is expected to be built into the first city-level digital Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Goals innovation platform in China. The index will be used to comprehensively calculate the safety, economy, green development, and other indicators, thereby assisting cities to implement sustainable development goals.

Boasting a global digital base and 50 years expertise in resource management, SAP is positioned to help the world go digital and green.

SAP's customer base, which includes 94% of the Global Fortune 500, represents 87% of the world's total trading value, and covers the core business of more than 40,000 end customers in more than 190 countries, has become the base of the global digital economy. In addition, SAP has worked on sustainability solutions for nearly 20 years. 85% of the companies with the highest greenhouse gas emissions in the world are SAP customers, and the carbon emissions of the top 2000 customers alone account for one-third (1/3) of the world's total emissions, reaching 10 billion tons. After adopting digital solutions for sustainability, SAP customers have seen an average increase of 73% in ESG score and an average decrease of 24% in CO2 emissions. SAP has been the software industry leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) for 15 consecutive years and maintained its position as a DJSI front-runner in the software industry in 2021. SAP was recognized as a leader in environ-mental transparency and action by CDP, an international organization that is viewed as the gold standard of environmental reporting, and made it to CDP’s A-List. Reaching a customer base with the highest carbon emissions and the most urgent needs for carbon reduction, SAP's digital solutions for sustainability are reinventing the way to run and grow businesses, in an effort to boost green development and build a community with a shared future for mankind.