SAP Sustainability Data Exchange

Driving scalability, standardization, and trust in carbon data exchange across your supply chain.
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Target Scope 3 emissions reduction and drive sustainability

Using an interoperable, cloud-based, industry-agnostic solution can help you drive scalability, standardization, and trust in carbon data exchange across your supply chain.

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Initiate action to address your supply chain emissions that are likely the largest component of your Scope 3 emissions. Embark on a journey to get actionable insights into your Scope 3 emissions by moving from averages to actual supplier data.

  • Integration with the SAP Sustainability Footprint Management solution

  • Cloud deployment

  • Enabling a reduction in carbon emissions

  • Auditable carbon values, data models, and workflows

  • Movement from data averages to actuals

  • Support for trading partners to accelerate their own decarbonization journeys

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Key benefits

Collaborate across your supply chain

Request and exchange Scope 3 emissions data through collaboration with your trading partners, increasing interoperability while retaining data sovereignty.

Standardize sustainability data exchange

Simplify audits with standardized data processes. Exchange information with Catena-X or the WBCSD PACT framework.

Accelerate carbon reduction

Identify products or processes with carbon reduction potential to avoid double emissions counting and optimize footprints calculations.

Key features

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Request and share accurate data

​Proactively request and share accurate product carbon footprint data and automatically collect primary data for product carbon footprint calculations

Comply with standardized models

​Conform to industry frameworks and requirements, in a standardized way, while enabling interoperability with Catena-X and WBSCD PACT standards

Manage current and historical data

​Ensure up-to-date PCF data, avoid double emissions counting, and identify areas with high potential for carbon reduction

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Leading the way in supply chain decarbonization

Discover how WITTE AUTOMOTIVE resolved their carbon footprint and data sharing challenges using SAP Sustainability Footprint Management and SAP Sustainability Data Exchange.

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SAP Sustainability Data Exchange is recognized by official standards

PACT conformant solution

The SAP Sustainability Data Exchange solution is conformant with the technical specifications of the Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT) framework of the World Business Council of Sustainable Development (WBSCD).

PACT seeks to accelerate decarbonization by creating transparency on emissions in the value chain. It establishes a standardized methodology and technology infrastructure for the precise and primary measurement of Scope 3 emissions, facilitating data exchange.

Technical and security information

This product is deployed in the cloud and is available as software as a service (SaaS), so you can access your software from any web browser.

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Integration

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Data security

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Business process security

Support compliance with regulatory requirements.

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Risk and threat mitigation

Drive continuous improvement across your operations.

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Cloud delivery options

Enable a smooth transformation while meeting security and compliance requirements.

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SAP named as preferred vendor for Carbon Accounting and Management

SAP Sustainability solutions are positioned in the Leaders category for worldwide carbon accounting and management applications in the 2024 IDC MarketScape Vendor Assessment.

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Frequently asked questions

FAQ

The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard classifies a company’s GHG emissions into 3 scopes:

  • Scope 1: Direct emissions from owned or controlled sources

  • Scope 2: Indirect emissions from the generation of purchased energy

  • Scope 3: All indirect emissions that are not included in Scope 2 that occur in the value chain of the reporting company, including both upstream and downstream emissions

Transactional carbon accounting is the umbrella term for a future SAP offering in carbon accounting, making it possible to account for the carbon emissions of your business transactions and create a “green line” next to the bottom line.

This combines the functionalities that the SAP Sustainability Footprint Management solution, SAP Sustainability Data Exchange, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud can deliver. SAP aims to enable the calculation and sharing of accurate, granular, and comparable carbon data so that organizations can reduce their emissions and meet set goals.

SAP Sustainability Data Exchange uses the carbon data interoperability standards established by the Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT), hosted by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). PACT set the first technical specifications for standardized exchange of carbon emissions data.

The solution also draws on SAP’s experience as a founding member of Catena-X and Cofinity-X, the rapidly developing data networks for the automotive industry. These consortiums are defining their standards for carbon information exchange as an extension of the PACT framework. SAP Sustainability Data Exchange is certified by Catena-X’s conformity assessment body. In the future, SAP is also expanding to other industry networks following PACT like TfS and many more to come.

SAP Sustainability Data Exchange is built on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) as a separate application without prerequisites. It can be used standalone and is a lightweight web application that does not require installation.