openSAP: Business Success with Climate Action

Climate Action – The Situation for Businesses

A good overview of how the new products are introduced and presented to publicity ( start from the challenge, provide background, explain your role and how you manage the challenges ( with categories and processes), provide a demo, and tell about co-Pillot, sell the services ). The presentation with a perfect and clear structure. 

It has no technical information to see the design of the solution. It would be interesting for consultants and developers.

Link: https://open.sap.com/courses/clim1

Situation – Sustainability in demand 

Sustainability trends are shifting markets 

• Consumers are shifting to more sustainable products and services 
• Investors are looking at agility and resilience

Climate action challenges and how they impact business

UN Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Action

• SAP has integrated the UN SDGs into its purpose
• Enabling customers to make positive impact through SAP technology and leading by example

SAP’s purpose and dual role

• Enabler Providing products and services that meet the sustainability challenges and opportunities of our customers
• Exemplar Leading by example in our own sustainable business operations and practices 

Sustainability management

• Materiality and strategy
• Focus on what matters most 
• Double materiality perspective
• Goals & KPIs
• “Decade of Delivery” 
• From incremental to absolute goals (e.g. SBTi) 
• From independent to interconnected KPIs
• Execution & Steering
• Data management (strategy, governance, automation) ▪ Integration of company-internal and 3rd party data 
• Providing transparency on all levels
• Dialogue & Disclosure
• Integrated reporting 
• Comparability through standards and frameworks (GRI, TCFD, SDGs,...)
• External assurance

Climate 21 Initiative

Greenhouse gases (GHGs) or carbon dioxide (CO2 )? 

• Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are all gases that contribute to climate change by absorbing infrared radiation from sunlight.
• Carbon dioxide (CO2 ) is the most prevalent greenhouse gas produced, followed by methane (CH4 ).
• GHGs are trapping too much heat and causing global warming, which is changing the climate.

GHG Protocol scope and emissions

• Scope 1 – Direct GHG emissions from owned sources 
• Scope 2 – Indirect GHG emissions from purchased electricity, heat, or steam
• Scope 3 – Other indirect emissions / The most commonly used international tool for quantifying emissions is the GHG Protocol

To manage the carbon footprint of their products, companies need to …

• … understand the CO2 footprint of their inputs, operations and products
• … optimize their operations based on benchmarks
• ... transform their business models and product portfolios

SAP enables a Sustainable Intelligent Enterprise

Typical challenges in large-scale footprinting 

• Low adoption effort and short time-to-value 
• Extend SAP S/4HANA, the digital core
• Consistent and focused initiatives in business terms
• Pre-configuration provided to make it ‘ready to use’ and ‘heat map’ as jump start to assessing
• Standardized, industry-ready methodology 
• Partnering with sustainability content providers and auditors
• Engaging with standardization initiatives to influence and follow upcoming standards
• Effective association of sustainability content 
• View on the entire value chain, upstream and downstream 
• Understandability of sustainability information

SAP Product Carbon Footprint Analytics

Architecture of SAP Product Carbon Footprint Analytics