Week 2: Climate Action – The Solutions

Unit 1: SAP as an Enabler for Climate Action

SAP as an enabler for climate action
Our approach to sustainable impact

Help the world run better and improve people’s lives

Creating positive economic, environmental and social impact within planetary boundaries

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

with Climate Action with Circular Economy with Social Responsibility

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SAP as an enabler for climate action
We are the right partner for your sustainability journey

Most comprehensive portfolio with holistic vision

Embed sustainability into your business DNA with our
extensive range of solutions while evolving towards a
Green Ledger1

Seamless E2E integration into business processes

Leverage SAP systems2 with embedded ESG solutions to
gather the required data (scope 1-3) in good quality along
your supply chain

Industry-specific solutions and networks

Knowing your industry-specific challenges, we provide the
right solution and connect you with the largest network

1 ESG bookkeeping 2 And other systems

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SAP as an enabler for climate action
Climate action offering

Measure auditable carbon footprints based on actual data at scale for disclosure management and business optimization

RECORD: Get scope 1, 2, 3 right

Record GHG footprints by bringing data from your
own corporate calculator or calculate emissions on
product or operations level

REPORT: Map GHG KPIs seamlessly

Report regulatory-compliant GHG KPIs and ESG
metrics covering most common frameworks

ACT: Take action to decarbonize

GRI Take action with decarbonization solutions specific to
EU Commission
your industry and by capturing emissions in your
Solutions Offered business units
SAP S/4HANA
SAP SAP Sustainability SAP
for EHS
Sustainability Footprint Sustainability
environment
Data Exchange Management Control Tower
management
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 SAP as an enabler for climate action
SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises

Sustainability Navigator

Link: https://sustainability-navigator.cfapps.sap.hana.ondemand.com/

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These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
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The only warranties for SAP or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty
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In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or
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and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
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functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
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Week 2: Climate Action – The Solutions
Unit 2: How the Carbon Footprint Is Calculated
How the carbon footprint is calculated
Imagine you are sustainability manager in a bakery and want to know your carbon footprint

Where to
start?

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How the carbon footprint is calculated
The go-to place for guidance are standards

Carbon footprints Regulation and standards Geography

▪ Corporate carbon footprint ▪ Regulation ▪ Country
▪ Product carbon footprint ▪ Sector or product-specific ▪ Region
▪ Project carbon footprint standards ▪ Global
▪ Sector or product-agnostic
standards

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How the carbon footprint is calculated
Things to consider when assessing the carbon footprint

1 Goal and scope 2 Activities 3 Conversions 4 Report and act

▪ Goal of the study ▪ Process mapping ▪ Emission factors ▪ Hotspot analysis
▪ System boundaries ▪ Activity data − Primary ▪ Report
− Organizational − Primary − Secondary ▪ Mitigate
− Product − Secondary ▪ Allocations
▪ Operational boundaries ▪ Other conversions

check check check

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How the carbon footprint is calculated
Basics of product carbon footprint
1 Goal and scope

Raw Materials & Energy Semi-Finished Products Finished Product

Raw Materials
Biscuit
Dark Chocolate 60% Production Biscuit Chocolate
Cake

Baking Mixture Oven

Gas

Electricity

2 Activities 3 Conversions 4 Report and act

100 grams chocolate 2 kgCO2e per kg chocolate 200 gCO2e chocolate
300 gCO2e other processes
500 gCO2e per chocolate cake
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 How the carbon footprint is calculated
Assessing the product and corporate carbon footprint

✓ Start decarbonization
Other scope 3 Other scope 1 and 2 actions by gaining
Other scope 3 emissions insights into product and
emissions emissions
e.g. investments corporate
e.g. business travel (non production)
Business unit/ emission hotspots
corporate ✓ No matter your scope 3
level maturity, start today to
Material acquisition Production Outbound transport calculate your product
Pre-processing Use phase and corporate carbon
Inbound transport End-of-life treatment footprints
✓ Increase the share of
Product Carbon Footprint – primary data over time
Product level Chocolate Cake
Roll-up to for improved quality and
Product Carbon Footprint – granularity
Fruit Cake corporate
level
Product Carbon Footprint –
…

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These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
warranty of any kind, and SAP or its affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials.
The only warranties for SAP or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty
statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional
warranty.
In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or
any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation,
and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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Unit 3: Climate Action – Vision and Direction
Climate action – Vision and direction
Our vision

Enable every organization and every industry to become a network of intelligent, sustainable enterprises

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Climate action – Vision and direction
Our vision: manage carbon in sync with your financials

Unmatched Granularity
Transactional Drill down into individual business transactions, like you would with
financials, for effective budgeting and steering e.g. on cost center level
Carbon
Accounting Unmatched Accuracy
Make reliable decisions and reports using standardized and accurate
data based on actuals and a common accounting methodology
Record, Report, Act on carbon
in sync with financial data for
every business transaction Unmatched Integration
Get carbon and financial data side by side to enable decision making at
a required point in time

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Climate action – Vision and direction
Start at averages today and move towards actuals

Capabilities required to start your journey today

Transactional Carbon Accounting – Powered by Green Ledger

Transactional
Aggregated Actuals
Averages

Carbon Footprint
Carbon Data Calculation Transactional
Sharing Carbon Accounting
Exchange actual carbon Sync financials with carbon
emissions data across your Combine averages and actuals for emissions of every business
value chain (scope 3) footprint calculations at corporate, transaction in one ledger
product, and transactional level

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The only warranties for SAP or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty
statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional
warranty.
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any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation,
and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
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trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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Week 2: Climate Action – The Solutions
Unit 4: Climate Action Product Portfolio
Climate action product portfolio
Existing SAP solutions for climate action

SAP Sustainability Control Tower

Monitor and steer ESG targets, report on sustainability performance

SAP Sustainability Data SAP Sustainability Footprint SAP S/4HANA for EHS
Exchange Management Environment Management

Share scope 3 product carbon data Calculate and manage your Manage all emissions inventory to
across your value chain with corporate and product footprints fulfil legal, regulatory, and permit, as
increased interoperability across scope 1, 2, and 3 well as voluntary and corporate
requirements*

Focus today
SAP Business Network

Third party SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP Central Component**

* Additional environmental scopes that are covered: Air emissions, waste management, water & wastewater management
** Inbound integration via APIs/ECC Accelerator

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Climate action product portfolio
SAP Sustainability Data Exchange

Achieve carbon-neutral supply chains by sharing and enabling carbon footprint calculations

Collaborate across your value chain​

Enable sharing of actual product carbon footprints in
the value chain (scope 3) with increased
interoperability

Standardize data exchange

Simplify audits with standardized data models and
workflows and exchange information seamlessly with
audit trail

Accelerate carbon reduction

In collaboration with
Identify products or processes with high potential for
CO2 reduction, avoid double emissions counting and
optimize footprints​

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Climate action product portfolio
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management

Measure auditable carbon footprints for disclosure management and business optimization

Access data easily with audit-ready quality

Seamlessly integrate data from ERP, bill of materials,
3rd party data, supplier data, and facility energy flows

Calculate corporate and product carbon

footprints at scale
Record data at asset level and calculate emissions
using accurate weight/mass and supplier-specific
emission factors

Sustainability Footprint Management example Integrate footprint analytics into end-to-end

business processes
Capture emissions directly into your core processes
like procurement, supply chain, maintenance,
finance/risk

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Climate action product portfolio
SAP S/4HANA for EHS environment management – GHG emissions management

End-to-end process for calculating

emissions
from data collection, measuring, calculating, and
aggregating actuals of emissions while fostering data
transparency with direct integration to sources

Reduce risk of non-compliance

by detecting and communicating deviations, including
investigations and follow-up activities on all types of
emissions such as hazardous air pollutants, criteria
pollutants, GHG, and other air and water emissions
SAP S/4HANA for EHS environment
management – GHG emissions
Improve operations
management
by closely monitoring performance and environmental
impact

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Climate action product portfolio
SAP Sustainability Control Tower

Automated, auditable, compliant reporting with actual data and insights that embed sustainability into business processes

Record: Actuals instead of averages

Record ESG factors with out-of-the-box integration
with SAP systems for faster time to value and
granular data visibility based on actual data, not
averages

Report: Audit-ready ESG metrics

Report regulatory-compliant ESG metrics covering
common frameworks (for example GRI) based on an
open and extensible solution with the largest ESG
ecosystem
Standard semantic frameworks supported
Act: ESG embedded in business processes
GRI Act by planning your future with actionable insights
EU Taxonomy
and forecasts and setting targets as well as tracking
initiatives and changing business processes

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Week 2: Climate Action – The Solutions
Unit 5: SAP’s Response to Address Customer
Challenges
 SAP’s response to address customer challenges
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management
Decarbonize your value chain with carbon accounting software that calculates your corporate and product carbon footprint

RECORD: Easily leverage existing data

with seamless integration and automation
Seamlessly integrate data from SAP S/4HANA, 3rd party
data, supplier data, and facility energy flows for data
acquisition and footprint distribution.

REPORT: Get auditable corporate and

product carbon footprints at scale
Assess your sustainability footprint with granular cradle to
gate carbon footprint calculations that consider materials,
transportation, and production.

ACT: Decarbonize along business

processes through granular transparency
Act on your reduction targets with carbon accounting software
that supports Scope 1, 2 and 3 transparency and generates
analytical insights from footprint data.

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SAP Sustainability Footprint Management – In a Nutshell
Scope 1*

Circular integration with SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA

Data Emission Factor Footprint Footprint Footprint

Acquisition
Cradle to Gate

Mgmt. Calculation Analytics Integration

Scope 2*

Smart Integrations with external systems and SAP solutions; file uploads

Save time and manual
efforts with automated
integration of actual
business data.
Scope 3
Manage primary and Hybrid carbon Analyze calculated Build decarbonization
secondary emissions accounting footprint in a dashboard directly into your core
data respectively from calculation combining to gain full strategy and business
suppliers and lifecycle averages and actuals transparency and process to set

Flexible options for data assessments leveraging verified valuable insights actionable, transparent
formats and uploads business, primary and across your company targets and shareable
secondary data and value chain data

*In combination with EHS EM for certain industries

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Sustainability service package for climate action

Kick off the journey Bridge the gap between strategy and execution Deliver, run, and scale the sustainable enterprise

Sustainability advisory Sustainability assessment Sustainability implementation

Achieve a quick start by defining Bridge the gap between strategy (your sustainability goals and Maximize usage and adoption with specific implementation on
your key sustainability ambitions ambitions) and execution (linking the technical execution). standard products and/or minimum viable product builds.
and use cases, prioritizing them, Identify the data in your existing systems and link it to achieve your
and creating a plan. sustainability ambitions. Quick-Start for Sustainability Control Tower

Available scope options reflecting the expanding solution portfolio: Quick-Start for Responsible Design & Production
▪ Sustainability Footprint Mgmt ▪ Sustainability Reporting (SCT)
Quick-Start for Sustainability Footprint Management
▪ Responsible Design ▪ Product Compliance (PC)
& Production ▪ S/4HANA for EHS Management (EHS) Implementation of S/4HANA for EHS Management
▪ Sustainable Finance ▪ Supply Chain Due Diligence Act
Implementation of Product Safety Document Retrieval for Product
Compliance

Sustainability trusted advisor

Work with SAP as a trusted advisor on sustainability topics from project start to implementation. Align your project roadmap with the sustainability product roadmap, provide
feedback to product management, and build a bridge with product development. Apply the latest sustainability innovations.

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