鈥淲e are committed to acting long-term and with responsibility in mind. Our focus and our actions respect the principles of sustainability鈥�聽says Pierre Wiese, Head of Business Solutions Commercial at D枚hler.

• Improving eco-efficiency along the value chain,
• consuming less energy and water,
• producing less CO2

are just a few of the points to which D枚hler has committed itself. Nevertheless, companies are facing complex operating and supply chain structures which means information on the CO2 footprint is often barely available and hardly traceable to the end-to-end business process.

鈥淎n innovative solution to trace back carbon emissions to its roots is necessary and one reason why we collaborated with 麻豆原创鈥�,聽Pierre continues.聽As a long-standing 麻豆原创 customer and valued partner, D枚hler and 麻豆原创 decided to run a聽co-innovation engagement聽to carry out a聽Climate 21 pilot.

In May 2020, D枚hler became the first customer to go live with a pilot installation of 麻豆原创 Product Carbon Footprint Analytics for one of their products. They are now able to trace carbon emissions with聽麻豆原创 S/4HANA听补苍诲听麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud.

麻豆原创 Product Carbon Footprint Analytics

麻豆原创 Product Carbon Footprint Analytics could be explained in the following way:
The four contributors for the product carbon footprint are:

1. 1. Purchased goods
2. 2. Energy (consumed for production processes)
3. 3. Direct emissions
4. 4. Outbound transport

The user maintains emission factors for these and together with quantity data, bill of material and routing data from the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud or on premise system, the calculation of the product carbon footprint is done within 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud. This allows insights by product, plant or cost centre (e.g. to compare or analyze within a certain business unit or division), which are the basis for further actions. For example, it might become visible that a certain production step (activity type) or purchased raw material causes a lot of carbon emissions. One possible measure could be to buy raw materials with a lower carbon footprint, replace energy-inefficient machines with more modern ones, or purchase green energy instead of the conventional electricity mix.

The 麻豆原创 Product Carbon Footprint Analytics must be seen in the bigger context of the Climate 21 initiative to cover the full value chain of customers. 麻豆原创 Product Carbon Footprint Analytics focuses on analytics and insights in the first step. These capabilities are ideal to get familiar with, gain first eye-opening insights and take first meaningful actions.

鈥淲ith such a significant innovation, we rely on the expertise and close cooperation with our customers. Together with them and our product management we define business capabilities and integrate them into the product roadmap for our analytical and transactional applications. To run this pilot D枚hler was a great experience for us. Their feedback will directly influence the development of further products in the Climate 21 context鈥�,聽describes Sabine Otholt, Head of Strategic Customer Engagements & Co-Innovation at 麻豆原创.

What聽should customers take into consideration:

Starting a carbon impact analysis of production processes is new for many customers and聽requires intensive collaboration between departments which normally act independently from each聽other 鈥� for example production data specialists on shop floor level will collaborate with process experts from business side. This will be necessary to maintain the right emission factors for different production steps. The same applies in a similar way for purchased goods or raw materials, direct emissions and outbound transport.

Such changes require聽rethinking and new ways of cross team and organisational聽collaboration. In return customers are rewarded with the ability to:

• get an overview on overall emissions and insights that contribute most and check where it makes sense to start reducing
• start to act reducing the carbon emissions your company is responsible for
• build the basis for further (sustainable) reporting
• give information to your customers on the carbon footprint on those products that they buy from you

To minimise聽our carbon footprint, we need to understand the impact of our production and logistics along our entire value chain. 麻豆原创 will help us to improve our operations and transform our product portfolio聽describes Peter Spaargaren, Head of Group Sustainability at D枚hler the benefit of the collaboration.

This co-innovation paves the way for a future in which products are equipped with a CO₂聽label and can therefore influence the purchase decision in the B2B and B2C business.

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I鈥檝e said it before, but it can鈥檛 be said too often: We cannot continue to live and work as we are doing today. To truly accelerate the pace of change that is needed to make an immediate and positive impact on a sustainable path, we must partner on all levels and across organizations, industries, and regions.聽We need tangible action now.

There are several positive aspects to consider. The energy technologies that the world needs to cope with the environmental challenges are widely available in the developed countries, and their costs continue to fall. These include producing renewable wind and solar power, bio fuels, and potentially carbon capture and storage and hydrogen power.

Local governments incentivise technologies that use natural resources wisely or have programs in place to encourage organizations to change their behaviour through emissions trading schemes or carbon taxes. In addition, there are many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that continue to push for a change in our mindset. Like other companies, 麻豆原创 engages in many of these initiatives because we are in the unique position to take a role as an orchestrator in enterprise networks. 麻豆原创 joined the World Economic Forum鈥檚 Global Plastic Action Partnership community, which provides tools, solutions, and insights for organizations to eliminate or at least reduce waste by 2030. We are also a member of the聽Ellen MacArthur Foundation to help companies enhance their resource productivity and realise a circular economy. These initiatives and partnerships are crucial as one company or organisation alone cannot address these global challenges.

When it comes to climate change, we have a convenient measurable performance unit in the form of CO₂ to drive and track performance at a global, national, and industrial levels. It is encouraging to see that we have the technologies to act, the support from local and global authorities, and a unit of measurement to know how we are doing. However, the central challenge is that we all need to move faster, together. We must move faster and at much greater scale than any industrial transition in the history of civilisation in order to stop global warming and other environmental degradation and pollution, which already has a measurable impact across ecosystems as diverse as the Arctic, rain forests, and oceans.

I strongly believe that technology is an enabler, but people make it happen. To go faster, I see two essential levers, both of which 麻豆原创 can play a pivotal role in supporting.

The first, and hopefully a very powerful lever, is an economic incentive for companies. Together with our customers, we can accelerate action through the financial instrument of carbon pricing. With the聽聽that there are currently more than 50 carbon pricing schemes being implemented or scheduled, this is a new business reality for the 2020s. Carbon pricing is complex. While governments and regulators are responsible for setting carbon pricing, it is in our DNA to build software that helps companies measure, account, and take the right action in dynamic and heterogeneous regulatory environments.

The second lever is choice both for consumers and companies. We are inevitably going to see more CO₂ labelling for goods and services in society, creating more transparency and, consequently, awareness. Consumers will demand more transparency into the CO₂ footprint associated with products and services they consume in the future 鈥� in the same way that we have had more visibility in recent years into calorie content of the food we consume. This will be true for both individual consumer choice, as well as companies buying through their supply chains. I also believe that there will be a mindset shift resulting in a willingness to pay a premium for the low or lowest carbon alternative. This is already a reality in some markets for renewable energy. Preferential low carbon purchasing behaviour will shape markets and company strategies. Carbon pricing will help effectively allocate capital to the most cost-effective options to de-carbonise, and the choice of customers will define who not only survives but thrives in a carbon constrained and sustainable business world. Every organisation and every individual needs to move into the same direction.

麻豆原创 provides a starting point to help companies preparing for a change driven by incentive and choice, with the Climate 21 initiative in 2020. I couldn鈥檛 be聽happier to announce聽麻豆原创 Product Carbon Footprint Analytics,聽the first solution available to the market. Our customer Doehler is the first to go live.

Embedding an enterprise-wide approach to CO₂聽will help businesses gain transparency and awareness, provide an economic incentive to companies to act now, and can be a starting point for action at scale. Adding a聽 for measuring a company鈥檚 performance symbolises our ability to change for the better of our global community. It is a decade of delivery, and 麻豆原创 is ready to support.

Thomas Saueressig is a member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE for 麻豆原创 Product Engineering.

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COVID-19聽has exposed the world鈥檚 vulnerability, but it also provides a shining example of how quickly countries can mobilize forces when faced with a global threat.

A triumvirate of forces 鈥� ecological, economic and societal 鈥� are currently encouraging leaders across many industries to take action to make their businesses more sustainable. Many leaders see a聽聽as an opportunity to forge a better world by reducing dependency on fossil fuels and stemming global warming. The World Economic Forum has even called on business leaders to 鈥�.鈥�

Managing the 鈥淕reen Line鈥�

The shift toward sustainable business practices is being driven by governments, consumers, investors, and even employees. While most companies monitor and measure the CO₂聽emissions of their production sites, customers are increasingly demanding visibility into the full carbon footprint of the individual products they purchase. Discerning consumers are inclined to choose companies that deliver transparency while shunning those they view as indifferent to the environment.

In the future, national and international regulations may even require such environmental impact information be provided on product labels.

Company leaders will therefore need to do much more than just manage their top and bottom lines to keep investors happy; they are increasingly being held accountable for the way they are managing their 鈥済reen line鈥� to reduce the carbon footprint across their business.

Introducing 麻豆原创 Product Carbon Footprint Analytics

This week, 麻豆原创 announced the first solution in its Climate 21 program to support enterprises trying to make their operations better prepared for the emerging business reality where sustainability is a strategic and economic imperative.

Delivering product-specific carbon footprints in industries such as consumer products, chemicals, and oil and gas can be very complex, involving analysis of multiple production sites and production steps. But no other enterprise software company is prepared to help enterprises tackle the challenge like 麻豆原创.

鈥淐limate 21 is the embodiment of the intelligent enterprise because it spans the end-to-end business processes across both companies and industries,鈥� Thomas Saueressig, member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE for 麻豆原创 Product Engineering, said as he addressed participants at 麻豆原创PHIRE NOW.

For nearly 50 years, companies of all sizes and from all industries have trusted 麻豆原创 to help them manage their enterprise resources to drive revenue, reduce cost, optimize asset utilization, streamline supply chains, and improve customer service. Much of the base data needed to determine carbon footprints is already in 麻豆原创 systems, such as bill of materials, energy usage, procurement data and master data. 麻豆原创 is also used to managing the complexity that such projects demand.

鈥淚t is in our DNA to build software that helps companies measure, account, and take the right action in dynamic and heterogeneous regulatory environments,鈥澛�Saueressig wrote.

But 麻豆原创 solutions for carbon accounting are not an afterthought bolted onto existing software applications; they are integral to the company鈥檚 digital core. Accounting for CO₂聽and other greenhouse gases is just an additional factor in an enterprise鈥檚 operations.

Carbon Emissions Accounted for Across the Entire Value Chain

麻豆原创 Product Carbon Footprint Analytics delivers carbon emission insights for a company鈥檚 products by plant, profit center, or cost center. Based on 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud and 麻豆原创 Cloud Platform, the application delivers transparency on the carbon emissions of a product across the entire value chain, including production, raw materials, energy use, and transport. Producers can also integrate data from product databases and third-party solutions to analyze and understand the emissions breakdowns.

If a specific product is made in more than one location place, for example, comparisons can be made for each activity of the value chain to determine the amount of CO₂聽it takes to produce the product in each location. Transparency about the carbon footprint lays the foundation to聽minimize聽carbon emissions. Producers can use the data to run simulations to optimize the carbon footprint according to buyer requirements.

鈥淥ur goal is to create transparency about carbon emissions all the way through the value chain, across industries, geographies, products, and services,鈥� said Toby Croucher, head of Solution Management for Climate 21 and Sustainability at 麻豆原创. 鈥淐reating transparency of the carbon footprint straight through to the consumer will help inform climate-responsible buying and consumption.鈥�

Transparency about the product carbon footprint for any good or service can also be passed down the value chain to consumers, enabling buying decisions to be based not only on quality or cost. For example,聽聽would be able to view the carbon footprint of the rims from Belgium, the titanium frame from Taiwan, the hub gears from the U.S., and tires from Germany, as well as the total carbon footprint of the bicycle delivered to the local bike store.

Co-Innovation Projects Lead the Way to Carbon Transparency and Climate Action

In addition to taking聽, 麻豆原创 is running numerous co-innovation projects with companies that are sustainability champions in their industries and understand the business value of taking the next step in managing their environmental impact.

Doehler is a global producer, marketer, and provider of technology-driven natural ingredients, ingredient systems, and integrated solutions for the food and beverage industry. Last month, it became the first company to go live with 麻豆原创 Product Carbon Footprint Analytics.

Watch this space for more examples of companies that are acting today to responsibly manage their green line.

This article first appeared on the Global News Room.

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