SAP Sustainability Solutions for social responsibility

Understand the impact of your business on people and society.
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Manage the human impact of your business and protect your entire value chain

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Social responsibility for zero inequality

Learn how SAP Sustainability solutions can help your company gain supply chain transparency to help ensure compliance with human rights—so you can sustain equitable, responsible business practices that positively impact our people AND our planet.

Enforce equality and human rights

Protect human rights across supply chains to ensure decent work, reduce inequalities, and mitigate risk while complying with ESG Due Diligence regulations.

Ensure safety, health, and labor rights in the workplace

Increase engagement and productivity by creating a caring culture where workers are kept safe and treated fairly.

Foster talent with people sustainability

Sustain a future-ready workforce by ensuring everyone is treated fairly with equal opportunities, leaving no one behind.

Featured sustainability solutions for driving zero inequality

Integrate ethical and socially responsible practices into a competitive business model.

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Ensure workplace safety

Help ensure the safety of employees and customers by proactively identifying, analyzing, and mitigating environment, health, and safety risks.

  • Make operations safer

  • Manage EHS more efficiently

  • Safeguard operational continuity

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Automate and enforce compliance

Manage regulatory and sustainability requirements, track registrations and substance volumes, classify products, and create compliance documents.

  • On-premise and cloud deployment

  • Credible, auditable data

  • Automated compliance processes

  • Integrated compliance checks and improved communication

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Sustainable procurement

Help your buyers make smarter, safer, and more compliant decisions before purchase, while focusing on sustainability. Prioritize your corporate responsibilities and identify critical issues affecting the supply chain.

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Manage supplier risk

Provide a safe and cohesive risk intelligence to guide supplier selection, qualification and segmentation.

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Manage risk and performance

Gain actionable insights into supplier's environmental, social, and ethical risks and intuitive scorecards and business sustainability ratings.

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External workforce management

Facilitate socially responsible employment while finding, engaging, managing, and compensating a diverse contingent workforce and unlocking its value.

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People sustainability

Gain insights on compliance and ethics by using aggregated analysis and reporting of HR data to foster employee diversity and inclusion business-wide.

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Employee perception

Understand how employees perceive your ESG effort in terms of planet, prosperity, people, and policy, and make data-driven decisions on how to engage employees in your ESG efforts to achieve your goals.​

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Customer data platform

Build trust with your customers by enabling transparency in how you collect and use their data, while giving them control over their own data. 

See how customers are achieving sustainability with SAP

Creating a positive change for its workforce

Consider how Chobani is using SAP SuccessFactors HCM to provide a robust experience across its entire employee lifecycle.

Connecting women-owned small businesses

See how WEConnect International is building a powerful, secure platform to achieve equitable supply chains that connect the world's largest buyers with women-owned small businesses.

See what analysts are saying about SAP

Watch an expert session with IDC

Join Aaron Green, Chief Marketing & Solutions Officer at SAP SuccessFactors and guest speakers from IDC to learn what people sustainability encompasses, how it drives positive economic and environmental outcomes, what differentiates the leaders in people sustainability, and why technology is critical with stricter ESG regulations.

SAP a top three performer out of 23 vendors in IDC Sustainability Index

SAP’s strategic commitment to sustainability and the comprehensiveness of our commercial offerings was highlighted in the IDC Sustainability Index for Software Providers placing SAP in the top three of 23 software vendors that were assessed using IDC's sustainability framework.

Featured resources

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Tackling inequality: An agenda for business action

Learn about the 10 catalytic actions companies can take to address mounting inequality. The Business Commission to Tackle Inequality (BCTI) set up by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) provides the global business community with a clear and compelling business case for efforts to tackle inequality, as well as a common and holistic agenda for private sector action. 

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Technology for biology

Discover how human activities are straining the ecosystems on which we depend, putting a myriad of species at risk for extinction.

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Reskilling for the green transition

Learn why human talent will be critical for the green transition through this conversation with sustainability experts.

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Explore our community for social responsibility

Engage in dialogue with the SAP ecosystem future and the impact we can achieve together.

Frequently asked questions

Supplier diversity programs (SDPs) are used by government and business organizations to expand and enrich existing supplier pools with underrepresented suppliers including LGBT, indigenous, or veteran-owned enterprises. DSPs capture the specific supplier and procurement goals for the company, and often incorporate supplier diversity software to help procurement teams identify diversification opportunities across the value chain. In fact, by expanding sourcing options across the enterprise and improving competition among suppliers, SDPs can improve supplier diversity while also improving supply chain resiliency, flexibility, and value.

A well-structured and well-executed SDP not only has positive societal impacts, it can also help companies improve supply chain responsiveness and overall financial performance. Some SDP best practices include:

  • Setting specific goals such as the target percentage of procurement spend dedicated to diverse suppliers

  • Frequently reviewing every category of spend looking for new opportunities to diversify your supplier pool

  • Proactively finding and recruiting potential suppliers and making it easy for them to onboard and contract as qualified suppliers

  • Ensuring that supplier onboarding captures all required data, forms, and certifications to quickly identify suppliers that meet your diversity goals

  • Bringing external supplier data sources together into a single repository to speed the process of finding diverse supplier candidates across geographies and spend categories

Given the multiple roles that environmental, health, and safety (EHS) software supports – from reporting, labelling, and compliance to risk assessments and incident management – choosing the right EHS software for your business requires a significant amount of due diligence. Regardless of which EHS software you choose, the solution should be evaluated for key capabilities including:

  • Automation functionality that streamlines incident management and compliance reporting tasks across teams

  • Ease of integration with internal and external data sources and systems to support seamless reporting and data-enriched workflows

  • Advanced analytics that can deliver key metrics and process large data volumes to help uncover hidden risks, provide mitigation guidance, or reveal new sustainability opportunities

Learn about SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management

With 88% of the world's supply chains networked through SAP, SAP Sustainability solutions can help you gain full visibility to assess the social and environmental impacts across your operations, so you can take fast, informed action to improve. For example, with the SAP Ariba Supplier Risk solution, you can monitor and enforce ethical procurement practices to protect human rights across your value chain. With the SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management application, you can take an integrated approach to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of your people and your workplace. And with SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management (HXM) Suite, you can engage and upskill your people to meet the challenges of the green economy.