SAP Sustainability solutions

Put sustainability at the core of your business.
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Building a sustainable world. Together.

By working together, we can put sustainability at the core of every business.

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SAP Sustainability solutions: ERP-centric, cloud-based, AI-enabled

Sustainability is a key driver of business success and strategic differentiation in the modern economy. To meet changing market demand faster and cheaper than your competitors, sustainability needs to be at the core of how you operate.

 

SAP Sustainability solutions integrate robust, auditable sustainability data into core ERP processes. Every team and every transaction across your organisation helps drive innovation, reduce cost, and mitigate risk with more informed decisions and AI-enabled automation.

ESG reporting

Accelerate your growth with proven business processes and continuous innovation.

Climate action

Reduce the carbon footprint of your entire value chain (scope 1 to 3) based on actual business transactions​.

Circular economy

Incorporate circularity into your supply chain and create corporate sustainability models.

Social responsibility

Understand the impact of your business on people and society.

CSRD

Prepare for CSRD, the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

Sustainable procurement

Reach your procurement and sustainability goals by transitioning to sustainable procurement.

Master the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

Ensure your ESG data foundation is ready to support the required CSRD disclosures.

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SAP customers are succeeding with sustainability solutions

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.

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.

Prescribing a social approach to sustainability

Discover how Farmacia San Pablo, Mexico’s leading pharmacy retail chain, found a remedy for its sustainability needs with SAP Sustainability Control Tower.

Helping fans make more sustainable choices

Explore how Coldplay created the Coldplay Music of the Spheres World Tour app to provide fans with insight into the planetary impact of their travel to and from the show.

Our own approach to a sustainable world

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It’s our responsibility to lead by example

Our corporate sustainability approach is to create positive economic, social, and environmental impact within planetary boundaries – with a special focus on holistic steering and ESG reporting, climate action, circular economy, and social responsibility.

Pioneering end-to-end carbon management to realise a green ledger

Want to measure your carbon bottom line as quickly and accurately as your financial bottom line? That’s the promise of end-to-end carbon management and our green ledger initiative.

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A new way to report and act on your carbon emissions

See how you can make your organisation’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

Gain insights on how to comply with increasing sustainability regulations and understand the impact of greenhouse gas (GHG) liabilities. 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.

Spotlight

Learn how artificial intelligence can enable end-to-end sustainability management.

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AI for emission factor management

Automated, accurate, and intelligent AI is built into SAP Sustainability Footprint Management to help you calculate full product carbon and corporate footprints and increase overall accuracy of calculations.

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AI for ESG Report Generation

Automated, AI enabled ESG reporting is embedded into SAP Sustainability Control Tower--leveraging the data available in ESG Data Foundation--to reduce time spent generating periodic reports, so you can focus on sustainability strategy and program execution.

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Test drive SAP Sustainability solutions free for 30 days.

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Explore our sustainability community

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

Awards

SAP has once again been awarded the EcoVadis Gold Medal after this year’s assessment! Not only have we maintained this recognition, but we also improved our score from 70 to 74 points, placing us in the top 5% of all companies assessed.

See what analysts are saying about SAP

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.

SAP placed in the top three performers out of 23 vendors in IDC's 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.

Gartner recognises breadth and depth of SAP Sustainability solutions

Our enterprise-wide, industry-specific functionality that’s embedded in core business processes is reviewed in the Gartner Sustainability Assessment.

Frequently asked questions

A sustainability management platform or tool to help companies record, report and act on their sustainability business goals by bringing together financial and non-financial metrics into the core of business processes. Key areas that sustainability software can help a business manage their impact are:

  1. Sustainability and ESG reporting software
  2. Carbon accounting and carbon management software
  3. Circular economy software
  4. Environmental management software
  5. Supplier diversity and social responsibility software
  6. Sustainable supply chain software

Visit our Products page to find the right SAP Sustainability solutions for you based on your company's industry and common sustainability challenges.

Our cloud-based sustainability solutions work together to help you manage your carbon footprint, reduce material waste, and become a socially responsible business.

 

Sustainability and ESG platform: – Connect your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data and build a trusted, auditable sustainability data foundation to holistically measure and report on ESG risks and act on sustainability impact goals.

 

Climate action solutions: – Decarbonize your entire value chain from end-to-end based on actual business transactions with carbon accounting software, emissions and compliance management, carbon footprint calculations, e-mobility, and transportation logistics.

 

Circular economy solutions: circular economy solutions can help you incorporate circularity into your supply chain, manage extended producer responsibility, reduce use of plastics, create corporate sustainability models to eliminate waste, circulate materials, regenerate natural systems, and comply with environmental laws such as plastic tax.

 

Social responsibility solutions: Manage the impact of your business on people and society and protect your entire value chain with supplier diversity and human rights due diligence software and other people sustainability solutions.

A secure, comprehensive sustainability cloud can help companies better execute on positive environmental and social initiatives at scale. From reducing manufacturing waste to improving employee experiences, you can quickly connect different sustainability data, processes, and teams from across the enterprise to improve transparency and outcomes.

A sustainability cloud environment can help companies across industries optimise resources and reduce environmental impacts at the transaction level. With cloud services and data intelligence tools integrated with existing line of business systems, companies gain process transparency to find new opportunities to be more sustainable, productive, and growth oriented.

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