SAP Strategy on Sustainability and AI

Week 1: AI and Sustainability
Unit 3: SAP’s Sustainability Strategy and Solution
Portfolio

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▪ SAP’s sustainability strategy
▪ SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises
− SAP Product Footprint Management
− SAP Sustainability Control Tower
− SAP EHS Management, incident management /
health and safety management
− SAP Ariba – EcoVadis Supplier Sustainability
Rating
SAP’s sustainability strategy and solution portfolio
Content overview
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Exemplar Enabler
Sustainability
Creating Positive Economic, Environmental, and Social Impact within Planetary Boundaries
Ethical business practices (Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact, AI Ethics, Respecting Human Rights)
Holistic Steering & Reporting
Climate Action
Zero Emissions
Circular Economy
Zero Waste
Social Responsibility
Zero Inequality
Providing products and services
that meet the sustainability challenges and
opportunities of our customers
Leading by example in our own
sustainable business operations and
practices
▪ Enabler
▪ Exemplar
▪ SAP Sustainability Control Tower ▪ Integrated Reporting ▪ Value Balancing Alliance
▪ SAP Product Footprint Management
▪ SAP Environment Management (EHS)
▪ Carbon Neutrality by 2023
▪ Net Zero by 2030
▪ Environmental Management System
▪ SAP Responsible Design and Production
▪ Phase out single-use plastics
▪ SAP Health and Safety
Management (EHS)
▪ Social Procurement
with SAP Ariba
▪ Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion
▪ Health & Well-Being
▪ Skilled Workforce
▪ Social Entrepreneurship
Purpose
Help the World Run Better and Improve People’s Lives
SAP supports the Sustainable Development Goals
sap.com/sustainability
Sustainability at SAP

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Enable every enterprise
to become an intelligent,
sustainable enterprise
App dev Integration Data and analytics AI
Intelligent, sustainable enterprise
Business process management
Business network Industry cloud Planning
Sustainability is core to SAP’s strategy and vision of the Intelligent Enterprise

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Finance Production
Design
Logistics &
Transport
Consumption
Recovery &
Reuse
Sourcing &
Marketplace
SAP
Responsible
Design and
Production
(Circular
Economy)
SAP Product
Footprint
Management
(Climate
Action)
SAP
Sustainability
Control Tower
(ESG
Reporting and
Steering)
SAP
Environment,
Health, and
Safety
Management
SAP S/4HANA
for product
compliance
Network
People
New
New
New
SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises

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Reduce effort and cost
of calculating,
analyzing and reporting
product footprints
In a Nutshell
With SAP Product Footprint Management customers gain
insights on the environmental impacts of their products
across the entire lifecycle for disclosure and internal product
and process optimization. The solution reuses existing
business data and combines it with environmental factors to
calculate the footprints of the products periodically and at
scale. The calculated footprints are integrated back into the
end-to-end processes.
Objective
SAP Product Footprint Management
is an SAP Cloud-native application to
calculate product footprints
periodically and at scale considering
the entire product lifecycle
Capabilities
▪ Live connectivity to SAP S/4HANA
with vast reuse of existing business
data and structures
▪ Emission factors management and
monthly calculation of all products
in the system
▪ Inbuilt integration back to
SAP S/4HANA systems and the
relevant end-to-end processes
Technology:
▪ SAP Business Technology Platform
▪ Live connected to: SAP S/4HANA
Cloud and SAP S/4HANA
Extend SAP S/4HANA
end-to-end business
processes by
embedding product
footprint information
Benefits
Gain insights into
product carbon
footprints to enable
actions to optimize
Reuse business data,
structure, and logic
from SAP S/4HANA
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Reduce Costs
Calculate fees and taxes
accurately and implement
measures to reduce regulatory
exposure
In a Nutshell
SAP Responsible Design and Production helps
producers manage their EPR obligations and
plastic taxes so they can control and eliminate
the costs of the downstream waste system and
make design changes to eliminate waste.
Provide tailored intelligence that will
enable businesses to keep pace with
EPR regulations and plastic taxes,
embed circularity principles into core
business processes, and optimize
design for regenerative business
OBJECTIVE
▪ Manage EPR declarations and
materials taxes in line with the latest
regulations
▪ Maintain a global view of progress and
support circular design processes
▪ Provide transparency and reporting to
third party NGOs on voluntary
agreements
CAPABILITIES
▪ SAP S/4HANA
▪ SAP PLM
▪ ECC 6 (requires ABAP plug-in)
▪ CSV/Excel Import
INTEGRATION
Deliver Commitments
Identify the right trade-offs and
enable the strategic portfolio
decision-making process
Empower Consumers
Transition to a circular product
portfolio and increase consumer
engagement through authentic
delivery of zero waste commitments
SAP Responsible Design and Production
Benefits

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Holistic Steering:
Realize a holistic
understanding and
performance
management across
social, environmenta,l
and financial indicators
In a Nutshell
Support customers to automate their integrated
reporting and performance management by enabling
transparency across financial, operational, compliance,
environmental, and social key figures to understand their
impact on the environment, society, and communities.
Objective
▪ Gain trust by establishing a robust and
auditable ESG reporting
▪ Drive action by setting targets, monitor
progress, and gain actionable insights from
granular, consistent, and dependable
sustainability data
Capabilities
▪ Source and integrate data from SAP and non-
SAP applications into a central sustainability
data warehouse
▪ Harmonize, allocate, and calculate granular
sustainability key figures along established
structures from Finance HR, real estate, and
operations
▪ Analyze and report sustainability data
according to established ESG reporting
frameworks
▪ Drive targeted action by giving business areas
a dedicated view on their sustainability
performance
Supporting Applications
▪ SAP Sustainability Control Tower
Actionable Insights:
Establish interrelationships
between financial,
operational, and
sustainability performance.
Analyze data at a level of
granularity that allows
decision making and targeted
actions for business units,
departments, and locations
Efficient Reporting:
Automated, timely, and
auditable ESG reporting
against a variety of
regulations and standards
as well as ratings
SAP Sustainability Control Tower
Benefits

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In a Nutshell
SAP EHS solutions provide a holistic approach to worker
safety that embeds operational risk management
systematically across the entirety of your operations. This
forms the basis of a robust corporate safety culture, able
to respond proactively to hazards and withstand future
health and safety challenges.
Objective
▪ Establish a robust corporate safety
culture and minimize operational risk
with a single, unified, end-to-end process
for identifying and dealing with hazards
Capabilities
▪ Multiple options for incident data entry,
including mobile and offline entry as well
as mobile-enabled hazard identification
▪ Real-time inventory reporting,
incorporating vendor SDS data for the
chemical approval process
▪ Centralized database that directly
integrates with maintenance and HR
processes
▪ User-friendly dashboard view
synthesizing different sources of data for
fast and easy interpretation
▪ SAP EHS Management, incident
management
▪ SAP EHS Management, health and
safety management
Employee
SAP EHS Management, incident management / health and safety management
Rapid Reaction
Speeds:
Reduced time for
incident processing,
regulatory reporting, and
corrective action
Total Visibility:
Critical safety information
available to all – right from
the top floor to the shop floor
Reduced Risk Exposure:
End-to-end risk management
minimizing the severity and
frequency of incidents
Benefits

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In a Nutshell
EcoVadis is the most trusted provider of business
sustainability ratings, used by over 75,000 companies
worldwide. Backed by powerful technology and a global
team of experts, EcoVadis’ easy-to-use scorecards
provide actionable insights into environmental, social, and
ethical risks.
SAP Ariba – EcoVadis Supplier Sustainability Rating
Objective
▪ Provides a complete end-to-end process
for managing the sustainability
performance of large global supply
chains
Capabilities
▪ Integration with Sustainability Risk and
Performance allows to view suppliers'
sustainability scores and access full
scorecards – all from SAP Ariba Supplier
Risk
▪ Benchmark suppliers against peers by
country/industry. Identify strengths and
improvement areas. Collaboratively
manage corrective actions /
improvement plans
▪ EcoVadis tracks over 10k third-party
data points to provide a full 360 view of
ratings and monitoring
▪ SAP Ariba
Supplier Risk:
Provides value by providing
a holistic view of a client’s
suppliers (financial and non-
financial indicators,
compliance and beyond
compliance, risk and
performance)
Globally accepted
ratings:
Internationally recognized
sustainability ratings avoid
redundant surveys and
promote continuous
improvement
Global sustainable
procurement program:
Sustainability performance
scorecards with actionable
insights pulled from
suppliers’ management
systems & third-party
sources
Benefits

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ZERO EMISSIONS with Climate Action
▪ SAP Product Footprint Management
▪ SAP E-Mobility*
▪ SAP Landscape Management Cloud
▪ SAP Transportation Management
▪ SAP Concur
▪ SAP Treasury and Risk Management
ZERO INEQUALITY Social Responsibility
▪ SAP Health and Safety Management (EHS)
▪ SAP Occupational Health (EHS)
▪ SAP Incident Management (EHS)
▪ SAP Business Integrity Screening
▪ SAP S/4HANA for product compliance
▪ SAP Concur (Duty of Care)
▪ SAP Ariba (Supplier Diversity)
▪ SAP Fieldglass (Contingent Workforce Diversity)
▪ SAP SuccessFactors
▪ Qualtrics Employee XM
INDUSTRY INNOVATION
▪ SAP Trader’s and Scheduler’s Workbench
▪ SAP Cloud for Energy
▪ SAP Digital Vehicle Hub (SAP AIN)
▪ SAP Direct Distribution
▪ SAP Multichannel Order Management
▪ SAP Work Clearance Management (EHS)
▪ SAP Management of Change (EHS)
▪ SAP S/4HANA for waste and recycling
▪ SAP Returnable Packaging Management
▪ SAP Intelligent Returns Management
▪ SAP Outcome-Based Business Insights
▪ SAP Replenishment Planning
ZERO WASTE with Circular Economy
▪ SAP Responsible Design & Production
▪ SAP S/4HANA for product compliance
▪ SAP Environment Management (EHS Waste
Mgmt)
▪ SAP Rural Sourcing Management
▪ SAP Logistics Business Network Material
Traceability
▪ Product Lifecycle Management
▪ Integrated Business Planning
HOLISTIC STEERING AND REPORTING
▪ SAP Sustainability Control Tower
▪ SAP Ariba – EcoVadis Supplier Sustainability Rating
▪ SAP Health and Safety Management (EHS)
▪ SAP Incident Management (EHS)
Industry Innovation
▪ SAP Profitability and Performance Management
▪ Service Offering: Supply Chain Due Diligence
SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises to chase zero emissions, zero waste and zero inequality

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