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SAP Sustainability Footprint Management

Score8 out of 10

14 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Sustainability Footprint Management?

SAP Product Footprint Management is a software solution used to calculate product footprints periodically and at scale across the entire product lifecycle.

SAP Sustainability Footprint Management review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a consultant for SAP EHS and sustainability solutions. I implement projects of this type, in addition to carrying out pre-sales as well.

Pros

  • Carbon footprint in the oil industry & energy
  • Carbon footprint in the chemical industry
  • Carbon footprint in the pharmaceutical industry

Cons

  • Improve Input Data Integration with SAP EHS-EM
  • Improve emission factors database
  • Improved output (reports and graphs)

Return on Investment

  • External reports
  • Corporate indicators
  • Mapping environmental impacts

SAP Sustainability Footprint Management - a consultant's perspective

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a SAP product consultant, we promote the use of SAP Sustainability Footprint Management for businesses to manage and monitor their carbon emission (particularly scope 3 emissions). We also promote the use of SAP EHSM Environment Management module to capture scope 1 and 2 emission, and SAP SCT as a reporting platform for businesses' carbon emission.

Pros

  • Carbon emission at product level
  • Scope 3 emission capture (although this is WIP)
  • Emission factor management
  • Emission calculation

Cons

  • Scope 1 and 2 emission capture
  • Additional categories for Scope 3 emission
  • Integration with SAP EHSM Environment Management
  • Ability to calculate emission not only at product level but also corporate level

Return on Investment

  • Improved transparency on carbon emission accounting
  • Improved visibility on Scope 3 emission
  • Improved compliance and conformance

Alternatives Considered

Enablon and Cority One

SAP Sustainability Footprint Management Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Sustainability Footprint Management is excellent tools to manage the total carbon footprint.It calculates a company's total carbon footprint and attributes emissions to products and corporate overhead, aiming to achieve a balanced emission level through all production stages. the main problem in current business was there was no particular tool to calculate how to measure and calculate the total carbon footprint through production and emission of different effluents from the company, through it it gives the holistic approach through the analytical data to measure and look forward to take measure to reduce the carbon footprint which leads to more sustainable approach towards business.

Pros

  • Footprint Management
  • Emission factor management
  • Footprint analysis

Cons

  • Better UI/UX
  • Holistic approach for ESG reporting
  • Carbon accounting

Return on Investment

  • Sustainable Business
  • Environment and Sustainability
  • Client trust

Alternatives Considered

IBM Managed Services for SAP Applications, SAP Access Control and Cisco Enterprise Network Security

Other Software Used

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite

Experience with SAP Sustainability Footprint Management

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are starting to use this tool because of the importance that sustainability and the calculation of the carbon footprint is gaining, but above all because the EU in 2024 has made it compulsory for companies to present this information at the same level as the financial information and we think that there is a market opportunity in it.

Pros

  • Is very intuitive
  • The breakdown of the carbon footprint by product
  • The option to add transport is very interesting

Cons

  • An easier connection with SCT
  • A simpler connection with S4/Hana

Return on Investment

  • Improve transparency and accountability in terms of environmental sustainability.
  • It enables companies to identify opportunities to reduce costs and improve efficiency through more sustainable practices.
  • Facilitates informed decision making by providing accurate data and analysis on the environmental performance of the company.

Other Software Used

SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation), SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Sustainability Footprint Management Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SAP Sustainability Footprint Management to solve complex carbon accounting and measurement , emission factor

Pros

  • Product enviromantal foot print
  • corproate footprint
  • Orgnizsational footprint
  • Employee engamanet

Cons

  • Complex Software
  • Not easy to inteagrite
  • Base line eatures mising

Return on Investment

  • Sustainable business steering & innovation
  • Business transformation