SAP Sustainability Footprint Management

Decarbonize your value chain with ERP-centric carbon management—calculate your corporate and product carbon footprint at scale.
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Calculate your corporate and product carbon footprint

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SAP Sustainability Footprint Management

No matter your current maturity level, we guide you towards highly accurate footprint results on the most granular level.

  • Create full transparency of your carbon footprint at scale

  • Save time and resources with our ERP-centric cloud solution

  • Make footprint results actionable within existing business processes

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Key benefits

Corporate and product footprint calculations

Assess your corporate carbon footprint across all GHG-Protocol categories and product carbon footprints that consider materials, transportation, and production.

Integration for highly granular calculations

Pull in existing master and transactional data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud, integrate supplier data, third party sources, and facility energy flows for accurate footprint results. 

Decarbonization driven by ERP

Integrate footprint results into key business processes to drive sustainable decision-making based on end-to-end carbon management.

Key features

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Integration scenarios

Reuse existing ERP data for calculations and embed footprint results back into business processes to influence decision-making.

Emission factor management

Increase accuracy with emission factor mapping powered by AI and include supplier specific footprints.

Carbon footprint calculation at scale

Calculate and manage Scope 1, 2, and 3 corporate, value chain, and product carbon footprints.

Carbon footprint analytics

Gain full transparency into your carbon footprint data across your entire value chain on a granular level.

Customer spotlight

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Driving green transformation to run “The Sustainable Factory”

Learn how Matsumoto Precision is using SAP Sustainability Footprint Management to provide information on CO2 emissions per product to its business partners.

See how customers are succeeding with SAP

Creating Net Zero as a Service

Learn how Ambipar is using SAP Sustainability solutions to create Net Zero as a Service: a user-friendly platform for eco-conscious companies who want to offset their carbon emissions securely.

Achieving healthy hydration through water stewardship

Learn how BlueTriton Brands uses SAP Sustainability solutions as a foundation for ESG reporting and for ERP-centric carbon management.

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.

Unlocking sustainability with carbon footprint transparency

Learn how Martur Fompak, a leading supplier of automotive seat systems, uses SAP Sustainability Footprint Management to make cockpit customization more sustainable.

Driving growth through sustainability of future products

Learn how CP Foods is relying on RISE with SAP and SAP Sustainability solutions to record, report, and act on real-time sustainability data to drive carbon accounting at corporate and product level.

S.OLEUM: Using high tech to get back to Brazil’s roots

Learn how S.OLEUM is using SAP Sustainability solutions to develop a low-carbon regenerative agricultural model that combines reforestation with crops and livestock.

Technical 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.

Installation and setup

Follow these setup instructions so you can start running your SAP software quickly and confidently.

Configuration

Optimize the configuration of SAP products with our comprehensive configuration guide.

Integration

Find out how you can integrate SAP products with your existing IT landscape.

Data security

Help protect confidentiality and data integrity.

Business process security

Support compliance with regulatory requirements.

Risk and threat mitigation

Drive continuous improvement across your operations.

Cloud delivery options

Enable a smooth transformation while meeting security and compliance requirements.

See what analysts are saying about SAP

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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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Put SAP at the top of your list for sustainability

Find out why IDC lists SAP as one of the top three performers out of 23 vendors in IDC’s Sustainability Index and learn more about SAP solutions for reducing emissions and increasing efficiency.

Resources

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Businesses Cultivating Sustainability: Meet the Resolutes

Discover how leading businesses are making environmental sustainability an integral part of their operations strategy and reaping substantial benefits.

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A new way to report and act on your carbon emissions

See how you can make your organization’s entire carbon impact an integral part of your balance sheet, measured and managed with the same precision as cash.

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Transform carbon accounting to become a future-ready business

Learn how to bring financial-grade precision to your carbon accounting and how the green ledger initiative will help your company make granular, accurate, and timely decisions that are financially and environmentally sound.

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Assessing impacts on people and the environment

CSRD disclosures will ensure that stakeholders have the information they need to assess a company’s impacts on people and the environment, and for investors to assess the financial risks and opportunities arising from those impacts.

Frequently asked questions

FAQ

SAP Sustainability Footprint Management offers an ERP-centric approach to calculate product and corporate carbon footprints and integrates the results into business processes to drive sustainable decision making. A green ledger consolidates and standardizes financial and carbon data to enable transactional carbon accounting SAP plans to launch the SAP Green Ledger solution, which enables posting of greenhouse gas quantities into SAP S/4HANA Cloud for finance alongside financial postings. SAP Green Ledger will not include capabilities to calculate corporate or product carbon footprints.

PCF looks at the total amount of GHG emissions generated by a product over the different stages of its life cycle. The GHG emissions are attributed to a specific unit of a product. PCFs are calculated for use cases that include: supporting voluntary standards like PACT V2, creating low carbon supply chains in networks like Catena X, or creating low carbon products.

 

CCF looks at the total amount of GHG emissions directly or indirectly caused by a company’s activities. Emissions are usually calculated for a specific period such as calendar years. CCFs are commonly calculated according to the GHG Protocol differentiating scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. CCFs are calculated for use cases that include: meeting regulatory requirements like CSRD, creating transparency for decarbonization, or meeting net zero targets.