Sustainability is an essential element of 麻豆原创鈥檚 purpose to help the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. Our approach is grounded in creating positive economic, social, and environmental impact, always within the limits of planetary boundaries and in full respect of human rights. With the ambition to drive sustainability beyond our net-zero 2030 goals and a portfolio that supports broader action areas such as holistic steering and reporting, ethical business conduct, and social responsibility, it was a natural progression for 麻豆原创 to become its own customer.

As both an and enabler, we aim to make our targets and purpose a reality. At the same time, by testing our IT solutions to the limit, we share the lessons learned along the way with the product development teams to continuously improve the 麻豆原创 Sustainability portfolio.

麻豆原创 shares its clients鈥� challenges

麻豆原创 faces many of the same sustainability challenges as our customers, such as data collection, data management, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Like the many organizations we support, 麻豆原创 must manage huge volumes of sustainability data, including carbon footprints, material flows, and ESG metrics, working to ensure accuracy, consistency, and accessibility across the value chain. Demands on IT systems are high. They must grapple with collecting, integrating, and sharing data while also assuring quality, traceability, and auditability.

The evolving regulatory landscape represents another challenge, requiring 麻豆原创 and other organizations to adapt and leverage their systems for compliance and reporting. IT solutions must be scaled and adjusted rapidly to these changing regulations and be able to collaborate seamlessly with supply chain partners.

Beyond these requirements, companies need sustainability data to provide actionable insights to support decision-making and respond to stakeholders. Meeting these challenges head-on requires an IT infrastructure that is innovative, scalable, and designed to evolve as the business advances on its sustainability journey.

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In practice, 麻豆原创鈥檚 systems are designed to empower customers to measure, report, and act on their sustainability goals. To enable this, solutions are built into core business systems such as and (麻豆原创 BTP). This helps ensure a solid data foundation and flexible integration of data sets from various business areas such as procurement, finance, supply chain management, and product design. Sustainability-focused tools like , , and can then provide the data, analytics, and insights needed to help drive sustainable decision-making.

“By implementing 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower and 麻豆原创 Green Ledger across our reporting ecosystem, we aim to elevate sustainability management to the same standard as financial reporting,鈥� said Dr. Christopher Sessar, Chief Accounting Officer, 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淭hese powerful tools will not only streamline and automate our ESG regulative compliance efforts but also generate actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making, accelerating our journey toward measurable sustainability outcomes and long-term environmental value creation.”

Implementation lessons

麻豆原创鈥檚 approach has evolved since the first implementation of 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower in 2022. Early lessons included the need to collect emissions data in a consistent manner, anchor the project in its net-zero program governance, and expand the scope of the project beyond carbon footprint data to include other environmental topics for a more holistic approach.

The next question concerned the IT architecture, organized into three layers. The top layer relates to the collection of raw sustainability, financial, and operational data from various source systems. The middle management layer processes and standardizes the data. Finally, a bottom planning and reporting layer delivers insights for sustainability decision-making.

The rollout began by uploading carbon footprint data into 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management across one company code and will increase to five company codes before the system goes live in Q3 of this year. It is useful to note the iterative approach our team has taken, which has allowed for the collection and integration of data from different sources and the testing of use cases including our听ability to support businesses amid changes such as those recently initiated by the EU鈥檚 new Omnibus package.

Matthias Medert is global head of Sustainability at 麻豆原创 SE.

By embedding sustainability into core business applications, unifying fragmented data across the enterprise, and amplifying human expertise through AI, 麻豆原创 is transforming how organizations turn sustainability commitments into competitive advantage.

Across the C-suite, leaders face pressure to make good on their organizations鈥� sustainability commitments while ensuring these initiatives create tangible value for their specific business units and departmental operations.

COOs grapple with maintaining resilient supply chains while embedding sustainability metrics for better risk prediction. CFOs struggle to gain visibility into integrated financial and non-financial data needed to manage reporting and drive sustainable growth. CPOs seek transparency of suppliers鈥� sustainability footprints across the source-to-pay process, while CHROs work to engage talent with authentic sustainability performance. Meanwhile, CROs need verified sustainability data to build brand trust and enable green premium pricing, and CIOs face the complex challenge of integrating sustainability data while managing governance, cost, and AI-driven innovation.

What鈥檚 missing is not awareness, but actionable, decision-grade sustainability data worthy of sitting alongside financial and operational metrics. This is why we build sustainability directly into our applications, generating new, usable data at the source of business activity.

Organizations find themselves constrained by financial systems, inconsistent data, and business processes that were not designed to address sustainability鈥檚 multifaceted nature. By ensuring this sustainability data becomes part of customers鈥� larger data story and drives core processes, we overcome these constraints.

This isn鈥檛 a peripheral issue; sustainability now intersects every critical business function, and the thoughtful organization of sustainability data. Its application to business processes prepares organizations for their agentic AI future, where sustainability metrics contribute to broader business intelligence tools like margin optimization agents rather than being siloed in sustainability-only solutions.

In this environment, 麻豆原创 emerges as a strategic partner that combines sustainability data with business processes to drive real change. By harnessing the power of 麻豆原创 Business AI and 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud, we translate intricate sustainability challenges into clear, executable strategies.

This week, we introduced a new evolutionary step of sustainability solutions that go beyond traditional software updates. These solutions are designed to bridge the critical gap between organizational ambition and tangible outcomes. We help businesses manage risk, ensure compliance, and unlock meaningful enterprise-wide value.

This is more than a technological upgrade; it’s a strategic framework for sustainable business innovation. And now, we’re translating that strategy into action, through AI-powered innovations that scale.

AI for sustainability at scale: New innovations for EHS and product compliance

Beginning in August 2025, new capabilities will be available in beta, embedded within key sustainability applications to help customers ready their data, automate processes, and amplify their expertise. These AI-driven innovations streamline operations across environmental, health and safety (EHS) and product compliance workflows, driving measurable and scalable impact.

Here鈥檚 a look at what鈥檚 coming:

• AI-assisted permit management in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA for EHS environment management simplifies and automates permit handling by capturing and extracting key data from permit documents and automatically proposing relevant follow-up tasks to ensure compliance.
• AI-assisted safety observation reporting with , 麻豆原创鈥檚 AI copilot, in , enables seamless, intuitive incident reporting through a conversational interface, reducing barriers to shop floor safety documentation.
• AI-assisted safety instruction generation in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA for EHS workplace safety suggests appropriate safety instructions based on risk assessments and job hazard analyses, supporting proactive and preventive measures.
• AI-assisted compliance information processing in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA for product compliance automates the extraction and mapping of critical data from declarations, certificates, and safety data sheets, improving accuracy and freeing teams from tedious manual work.

These features will be available in beta and will be part of the new , reflecting 麻豆原创鈥檚 commitment to delivering embedded, business-ready AI that drives real outcomes.

AI that鈥檚 already delivering value

麻豆原创 customers are already leveraging Business AI to supercharge their sustainability efforts, including:

• In , AI accelerates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report generation with editable templates, generative text, and visualizations, freeing teams to focus on ESG execution, not formatting.
• In , AI automates emission factor mapping by intelligently matching products to thousands of lifecycle assessment database entries, complete with confidence scores.
• In , AI automatically validating and extracting data from International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS supplier declarations, minimizing errors and increasing speed.

These intelligent capabilities help customers reduce costs, mitigate risk, and drive business performance across reporting, carbon management, circularity, and regulatory compliance.

What鈥檚 next: unlocking enterprise-wide sustainability insights

In the second half of 2025, 麻豆原创 will make 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower available as an Intelligent Application within . This will unify sustainability data and business operations on a single platform, enabling consistent reporting, deeper insight, and smarter decision-making across the enterprise.

A technology preview of these solutions will be made available to selected customers before general availability.

One sustainability data model: From complexity to clarity

麻豆原创 is also introducing new sustainability data products throughout 2025 as part of our strategy to deliver hundreds of curated and governed datasets across . These data products, accessible via 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud, will include:

• Structured emissions data (air, water, wastewater) from 麻豆原创 EHS Management and 麻豆原创 S/4HANA for product compliance
• Additional datasets from 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management

This unified sustainability data model will empower customers to strengthen compliance, simplify analytics, and scale sustainability programs with confidence and clarity.

Process intelligence meets sustainability intelligence

True progress does not just come from better data, it comes from better processes. That is why 麻豆原创 is embedding sustainability impact metrics into the starting in autumn 2025. These new capabilities will include:

• 麻豆原创 Signavio Value Accelerators: Pre-built process models and industry best practices tailored for regulatory-specific use cases
• 麻豆原创 Signavio Process Intelligence: Analytics tools that identify opportunities to optimize business processes and embed sustainability at scale

With these additions, customers can align process transformation efforts with environmental goals, helping close the gap between strategy and execution.

Your best, made real

With 麻豆原创, transforms from a compliance checklist into a lever for innovation, resilience, and growth. By embedding sustainability into applications, unifying data across the enterprise, and enabling intelligent automation through AI, we empower organizations to be sustainable while accelerating performance.

From frontline safety to carbon reporting, from real-time data to boardroom insights, this is what 鈥測our best, made real鈥� looks like.

Welcome to a new era of sustainable enterprise management, powered by 麻豆原创.

Sophia Mendelsohn is chief sustainability and commercial officer at 麻豆原创.
Gunther Rothermel is chief product officer for 麻豆原创 Sustainability.

With automated Emission Factor Mapping in 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management and AI-assisted ESG Report Generation in 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, 麻豆原创 can support companies in setting meaningful environmental targets, ensuring compliance, and managing carbon footprints with heightened efficiency and accountability.

鈥淪ustainability executives are on board with artificial intelligence. More than half say improving data analysis and consolidation using AI are top actions they will be taking over the next three years to enhance ESG capabilities.鈥�

Addressing the Strategy Execution Gap in Sustainability Reporting, KPMG, February 2024

Emission Factor Mapping in 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management

To calculate product carbon footprints accurately, companies must assign emission factors to thousands of purchased products. Ideally, emission factors are provided directly by suppliers, but often companies need to use industry averages based on product attributes like name, category, or location. Up until now, this mapping process has been a manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task that required expertise in lifecycle assessment (LCA), determining the environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the lifecycle of a product, process, or service.

To help make this process easier and more efficient, 麻豆原创 has introduced an AI-based capability within the solution. for purchased products and services and can assign a similarity score to each recommendation.

For the mapping, 麻豆原创 generates embeddings for both, emission factors from LCA databases and product data from the ERP system. Embeddings are vector representations 鈥� numerical representations of textual information to provide context and meaning of a text. Both sets of embeddings are saved in 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud vector engine.

The system compares these embeddings to help identify the quality of the mapping and provide suggested results. This helps businesses reduce manual effort by up to 80% and calculate product and corporate carbon footprints quicker and with greater precision, even without LCA experts. It can also accelerate their sustainability reporting timelines and help them respond faster to regulatory demands.

AI-Assisted ESG Report Generation in 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower

In addition, 麻豆原创 embedded a generative AI-powered reporting capability within 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower. Creating sustainability reports that align with internal strategies and meet external standards, such as the CSRD, is essential for staying compliant and transparent. However, gathering relevant environmental, social, and governance data and drafting these reports can be highly resource-intensive, involving multiple teams and complex data sources.

That鈥檚 why 麻豆原创鈥檚 AI capability helps generate comprehensive ESG report drafts based on best-practice templates and the company鈥檚 available ESG metrics. Once users select a template, , create graphs to visualize the data, and generate a polished report draft. That helps companies spend up to 98% less time collecting ESG metrics and up to 80% less time in creating a report.

Some key benefits of the feature include:

• Efficient data utilization: The AI-powered solution leverages large language models and SQL grounding techniques, which help transform natural language inquiries into precise database queries that access real-time data from structured databases. That鈥檚 how it transforms raw data from customers’ systems into accurate, comprehensive reports tailored to specific timeframes.
• Visualization: The AI generates insightful textual content through SQL-based data retrieval, helping to ensure data integrity and compliance. Additionally, it creates visually appealing charts and tables to help enhance report clarity and understanding.
• Automated verification: Our robust system prioritizes data security by avoiding direct SQL query execution and employing a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) process to help safeguard against informational discrepancies.

The Future of AI in Sustainability

The use cases above are just the beginning. AI鈥檚 potential to transform sustainability management is enormous, and at 麻豆原创 we are accelerating the creation of use cases to be at the forefront of our customers鈥� sustainable transformation journeys. For example, users will be able to interact through natural language with 麻豆原创鈥檚 AI copilot that can offer actionable recommendations and simulations to help improve environmental and social performance. And we will continue to apply AI to make the acquisition of sustainability data easier.

Using 麻豆原创鈥檚 ERP-centric, cloud-based, AI-enabled approach, we鈥檙e working to ensure AI鈥檚 massive potential turns into both real business transformation and sustainability outcomes. AI and technology can help us better understand and monitor the environment, improve energy efficiency, optimize resource management, and develop innovative solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

As COP29 convenes in Baku, it is essential for global leaders and decision-makers to fully explore AI’s transformative role in addressing climate change. The urgent demands of this crisis call for the kind of innovative, AI-driven solutions that can unlock greater precision, efficiency, and impact. By leveraging AI not only to streamline business operations but also to set and meet ambitious environmental goals, we are shaping a future where technology empowers businesses to thrive responsibly, contributing actively to a sustainable and resilient planet.

Gunther Rothermel is chief product officer and co-GM for 麻豆原创 Sustainability.

There are two major drivers behind the need for companies to implement a robust sustainability management system. The first is the need to future proof their business to ensure a resilient value chain and secure a competitive advantage over their peers.

The second is to transition from voluntary to regulatory reporting and comply with the torrent of new regulations. or standards like IFRS require companies to report on, and respond to, a wide variety of environmental and social sustainability topics. Some sources say there are more than 600 regulations, sustainability reporting standards, and frameworks around the world, with more coming down the pipeline every year.

What Is a Sustainability Management System?

A sustainability management system allows companies to calculate and track metrics and targets and disclose their risk management, strategy, and governance policies. It is also a valuable tool for providing a robust and holistic view for sustainability decision-making. With carbon emissions data a central element to any sustainability strategy, 麻豆原创 has created a to enable companies to both respond to regulation and advance their own ambitions.

麻豆原创鈥檚 End-to-End Approach to Carbon Management

So how does 麻豆原创 provide a sustainability management system to tackle the carbon topic and its drivers end-to-end? We can enable customers to implement five key principles with the help of our modular and integrated family of sustainability software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions.

1. Use a Reliable Foundation and Reuse Your ERP Data

麻豆原创 embraces an ERP-centric approach, using integrated sustainability data from cloud ERP business processes supported by AI technology. We can bring together different types of business data and levels of data granularity, as required, to enable the transition from voluntary to regulated . It is a flexible but robust approach with high data quality and reliability at its core.

2. Get a Complete View for Regulatory Reporting with Reasonable Effort

can provide an easy-to-use data collection system that helps enable a holistic and complete calculation of the carbon footprint at the corporate level. As of now, customers can also generate an automated environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report based on AI and natively available ESG data.

3. Go Deep Where It Matters Most

For a deeper perspective that is informed by the corporate overview, customers can use the integration with to help enable additional automated and in-depth calculations. Emissions can be tracked at the company, operational, and product level. The ERP-centric approach uses transaction data directly from 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud to help calculate a consistent carbon footprint at the corporate and product level on one data foundation. AI comes into play when emission factors from standard databases are needed. With the intelligent mapping feature, customers can leverage AI to help automatically provide mapping suggestions. This feature can save significant time by replacing a tedious and manual process while being robust enough to help inform final decision-making.

, a customer already using 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management as well as 麻豆原创 Sustainability Data Exchange said:

鈥淏y leveraging 麻豆原创 Sustainability solutions, WITTE AUTOMOTIVE is now able to calculate carbon footprints of the product portfolio in compliance with the Catena-X Rulebook and share it in a standardized way.鈥�

– Michael Tworek, Head of Digital Innovations, WITTE Automotive GmbH.

4. Exchange Actuals with Your Suppliers and Customers

helps handle the exchange of relevant data across the supply chain. Customers like WITTE Automotive can therefore request missing data and exchange sustainability data such as the carbon footprint of products with their network. The usage of WBCSD PACT and Catena-X standards in the product can enable consistent and open communication and processing of data.

5. Drive Transformation in Operational Business Processes and Transition to Carbon Accounting in the Financial Sense

The flexibility of 麻豆原创 Sustainability and the ERP-centric approach means it can meet corporate requirements providing the granularity, accuracy, and auditability needed. Calculated product carbon footprints can be used for financial decision-making thanks to its integration with , which can enable companies to determine carbon emissions versus profitability. All this is done using the same rigorous accounting principles and practices that are used in finance. It can provide a trusted data foundation that can go beyond compliance and help improve business performance management through the integration of trusted carbon data into business processes that matter.

Product carbon footprints can also be integrated into , for example. With Scope 3 emissions being the largest proportion of carbon emissions for most businesses, procurement processes become a key lever in decarbonization efforts. The integrated solution can help to analyze and manage the carbon impact of a company鈥檚 spend to identify emission hot spots to inform a data-driven Scope 3 decarbonization strategy.

Are You Ready to Adopt a Carbon Management System?

Wherever a company is on their sustainability journey, 麻豆原创鈥檚 end-to-end carbon management solutions can allow it to go all in on sustainability and build resilient, future-proof operations. This allows them to streamline reporting and meet compliance requirements while benefiting the environment and their bottom line.

麻豆原创 Sustainability solutions can do more for you beyond carbon management and ESG-related disclosures. Check out our to learn more about the support for operational compliance and material transition.

Gunther Rothermel is chief product officer and co-GM for 麻豆原创 Sustainability.

A once nascent market, carbon accounting and management is experiencing a significant transition in the number, type, and capability of solutions available. The landscape formerly comprised of startup and niche vendors has expanded to include large independent software vendors (ISVs) and hyperscalers, all battling for market share.

Organizations are under increasing pressure to track and disclose carbon emissions data to stakeholders including investors, partners, clients, customers, employees, and regulators. Many are collecting data and reporting on Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Scope 3 remains a challenge due to the complexity of reliable data collection and reporting.

Fines and litigation will create a new impetus for reporting as well. Regulations will add a new element of complexity to how companies report. Disclosure of decarbonization initiatives will require unique data analysis and scenario planning tools. The IDC report points to data integration as a principal challenge for carbon accounting vendors.

麻豆原创 Carbon Accounting & Management: Rising to the Challenge

麻豆原创 is well-positioned to provide organizations with data-driven, purpose-specific carbon management solutions that are ERP centric, cloud based, and AI enabled. These include 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Data Exchange, the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud solution for EHS environment management, and 麻豆原创 Green Ledger, which all help to enable carbon accounting and management on a transactional level and transform emissions tracking processes.

Our carbon management solutions are best suited for organizations currently using or planning to use 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and looking to capture the value of sustainability, as well as manage sustainability-related business risks. Customers can address these objectives by embedding sustainability into their end-to-end business processes, leveraging ERP and supplier data, and using the metrics to inform business processes and financial reporting.

Having the ability to assess carbon and financial data on the same transactional level adds a new dimension to the way organizations address carbon budgets, make capital allocation decisions, and cascade and scale change management. This transformation allows for targeted sustainability actions and more precise financial decisions.

麻豆原创 can leverage its ERP-centric sustainability approach of supporting both corporate and transaction-level product carbon footprints as a differentiator. Integration with other financial applications 鈥� procurement, supply chain, risk, and compliance management 鈥� is a standard feature of the 麻豆原创 Sustainability portfolio.

Staying ahead of carbon taxes, penalties, and upcoming regulatory requirements will also play a key role in how organizations report. Alignment between CFOs and CSOs will become more frequent due to the overlapping responsibilities and sustainability management component, as they affect both corporate risk and cash flow.

According to the IDC MarketScape, 鈥渢he portfolio of sustainability offerings is built on a foundation of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, limiting adoption to the universe of users. Furthermore, while modular in design, much of the solutions鈥� value is dependent on the adoption of multiple system elements, thus commanding a higher price point.鈥� 麻豆原创 is responding with the speed and agility of cloud delivery combined with integrated sustainability data within the core enterprise resource planning system. This will be critical in helping to optimize customers鈥� sustainability and financial performance and become the very foundation of their future business success.

By unifying sustainability and financial data, 麻豆原创 customers can unlock carbon emissions insights, positively impacting decision-making and forecasting on all hierarchical levels. With end-to-end carbon management and the added transactional-level carbon emissions data, organizations can improve operational efficiency, foster emissions transparency, and comply with developing regulations. Achieving a sustainability transformation 鈥� one that benefits the bottom line and the planet 鈥� is truly within reach. Find out more .

The IDC study provides a comprehensive analysis of carbon management platforms, highlighting the increasing need for organizations to track, manage, and report carbon emissions amid evolving regulatory landscapes and stakeholder pressures. It evaluates vendors based on their capabilities and strategies to meet future customer needs, focusing on innovation, customer satisfaction, and the ability to support organizations in their decarbonization efforts. “In an era of escalating environmental scrutiny, mastering carbon accounting is not just compliance, but a strategic imperative for future-proofing businesses,” said Amy Cravens, research manager, ESG Reporting and Management Applications at IDC.

Alicia Lenze is global head of Sustainability Marketing at 麻豆原创 SE.

At our customer flagship event, 麻豆原创 Sapphire, we’re discussing how we support customers with their biggest challenges, looking at future trends, and unveiling the latest product innovations.

This makes the event the perfect opportunity to highlight how we are redefining the way companies manage sustainability through our ERP-centric, cloud-based, AI-enabled approach.

ERP-Centric

For true business model transformation, sustainability needs to be at the core of how companies operate. At 麻豆原创, we integrate sustainability data into cloud ERP business processes, which helps companies connect financial and non-financial information and thus treat carbon like money. This makes all decisions financially and environmentally sound while enabling customers to record real impacts and report audit-ready environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics seamlessly.

Cloud-Based

Instant access to fast-evolving innovations is only possible through the cloud. Our modern cloud-based solutions ensure that businesses can quickly adopt new functionality and stay ahead in a rapidly changing environment.

AI-Enabled

Business AI is revolutionizing the way we approach sustainability. At 麻豆原创, AI takes complex sustainability tasks reliant on sustainability data and ERP data and makes them automated and auditable. It enables companies to improve operational efficiency, foster greater transparency around supply chain emissions, design and plan more effectively, and automate time-consuming tasks. 麻豆原创 Business AI is built on the data and processes that run the business world, including sustainability related information from both inside and outside the company鈥檚 walls, making our solutions smarter, faster, and more effective.

With 麻豆原创 Business AI, we support our customers鈥� efforts to optimize for sustainable impact. This year at 麻豆原创 Sapphire, we are thrilled to announce two new AI-driven sustainability use cases:

• Emission Factor Mapping with AI: Available in 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management, this feature enhances the accuracy and speed of carbon footprint calculations through automated, intelligent suggestions. By reducing the manual effort involved in mapping emission factors, businesses can achieve more precise measurements and make informed decisions faster.
• ESG Report Generation with AI: This capability allows for the automatic generation of ESG reports based on the data within 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower. This not only streamlines the reporting process but also helps ensure that the data is reliable and actionable, providing a clear picture of a company鈥檚 sustainability performance.

Our comprehensive approach to carbon management is becoming a reality as we introduce new sustainability tracking, monitoring, and reporting features within the 麻豆原创 cloud ERP portfolio as well as a new solution that will help customers manage sustainability commitments and comply with global regulations.

• Advanced Carbon Calculator Engine: This powerful tool featured in 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower and 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management integrates ERP data from 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and other sources and embeds results back into business processes for informed decision-making. As such, it allows customers to meet Greenhouse Gas Protocol reporting standards, offering advanced, granular calculations of both product and corporate carbon footprints.
• 麻豆原创 Green Ledger will be released at the end of 2024. The solution will help customers connect their emissions data and financial data, allowing customers to easily understand the correlation between emissions and finances, model sustainable business scenarios, and then act with decisions that are both financially and environmentally sound.

At 麻豆原创, we believe that the future of business is inextricably linked to sustainability. This is why sustainability is a key pillar of our growth strategy. Businesses must recognize that sustainable practices are not just ethical choices, but strategic financial decisions that drive innovation, reduce costs, and mitigate risks.

Moreover, sustainable transformation opens up significant economic opportunities. By transforming their operations around sustainability, businesses can create a modern, low-carbon, circular economy that benefits both the environment and their bottom line, enhancing overall resilience.

This transformation aligns business success with global sustainability goals, paving the way for a more sustainable, valuable, and prosperous future.

Sophia Mendelsohn is chief sustainability and commercial officer at 麻豆原创.

ORLANDO 鈥� At its annual 麻豆原创 Sapphire conference, 麻豆原创 unveiled generative AI innovations and partnerships that showcase how the company is taking business to the next level in the era of AI.

By infusing Business AI across an enterprise cloud portfolio that powers the world鈥檚 most mission-critical processes and partnering with companies pushing the edge of what鈥檚 possible with AI, 麻豆原创 is igniting a new wave of insight and ingenuity in global business.

鈥淭he Business AI innovations we鈥檙e announcing at 麻豆原创 Sapphire in 2024 will redefine the way businesses run,鈥� says Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淭oday鈥檚 AI announcements and partnerships build on our commitment to deliver revolutionary technology that drives real-world results, helping customers unleash the agility and ingenuity they need to succeed in today鈥檚 fast-moving business landscape.鈥�

AI That Means Business

As 麻豆原创 embeds Business AI across its enterprise solutions, it puts rich insights at users鈥� fingertips, empowering them to deliver better outcomes and elevate the creative problem-solving humans do best. Examples include AI-generated reports in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions that give people managers responsibly sourced insights for compensation-related discussions as well as forecasting capabilities in 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud solutions that predict combinations of salespeople and products most likely to drive sales. Meanwhile, the 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform is adding large language models from Amazon Web Services, Meta and Mistral AI to its generative AI hub. This capability in the 麻豆原创 AI Core infrastructure makes it easier to build generative AI use cases for 麻豆原创 applications.

麻豆原创鈥檚 generative AI copilot Joule, which quickly sorts and contextualizes data from multiple systems to advance automation and improve decision-making, is expanding throughout the company鈥檚 solution portfolio. Joule launched in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions last fall and is now embedded into 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud solutions and others including 麻豆原创 Build and 麻豆原创 Integration Suite. Further expansion by year-end will include 麻豆原创 Ariba and 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud solutions. At Sapphire, 麻豆原创 also announced plans to further broaden Joule鈥檚 scope by integrating it with Microsoft Copilot to surface even richer insights. This deep, bi-directional integration gives users a unified experience built right into the flow of work, enabling seamless access to information from interactions with business applications in 麻豆原创 and Microsoft 365.

Reflecting Business AI鈥檚 increasing importance, 麻豆原创 is redoubling its commitment to the principles of relevant, reliable, and responsible AI it pioneered. At Sapphire, 麻豆原创 is adopting the 10 guiding principles of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, which aim to ensure that AI technologies are developed and used in ways that respect human rights, promote fairness and contribute to sustainable development.

Partnerships That Scale Innovation

麻豆原创 is partnering with best-in-class technology leaders to push the limits of what generative AI can do at an enterprise level. In addition to our expanded collaborations with AWS and Microsoft, partnerships with Google Cloud, Meta, Mistral AI and NVIDIA ensure 麻豆原创 can harness the power of AI-ready technology to innovate at speed and deliver richer real-world results.

Google Cloud

麻豆原创 and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, using Business AI to help enterprises better predict and mitigate supply-chain risks to minimize disruptions and maintain optimal inventory levels. The companies will integrate Joule and the 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution with Google Cloud鈥檚 Gemini models AI assistant and Google Cloud Cortex Framework鈥檚 data foundation.

Meta

麻豆原创 will leverage Meta Llama 3 to generate scripts that render highly customized analytics applications in 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud. Meta鈥檚 next-generation AI model excels at language nuances and contextual understanding, making it an ideal candidate for translating enterprise business requirements into tangible outcomes.

Mistral AI

麻豆原创 will also add new large language models from Mistral AI, a global company headquartered in Paris specializing in generative AI, to the generative AI hub capability in 麻豆原创 AI Core.

NVIDIA

麻豆原创 and NVIDIA Corporation advance a to embed cutting-edge technologies into enterprise-ready business applications:

• As 麻豆原创 trains Joule to serve as an AI assistant for the RISE with 麻豆原创 solution implementations, NVIDIA鈥檚 state-of-the-art AI models sift through 麻豆原创 consulting assets to provide relevant and precise answers to implementation-related questions;
• As 麻豆原创 embeds Joule in the ABAP Cloud model to generate ABAP code for 麻豆原创 developers, NVIDIA鈥檚 accelerated infrastructure will run, scale, and manage 麻豆原创’s generative AI model for ABAP code generation;
• As 麻豆原创 infuses generative AI into the 麻豆原创 Intelligent Product Recommendation solution, NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs enable the simulation of complex manufacturing products and configurations as industrial digital twins.

Cloud Technology That Drives Agility and Sustainability

Business success in the era of AI means being in the cloud. 麻豆原创 is making the move easier than ever with initiatives that help customers find partners with the expertise needed for complex 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud transformations. Further cloud innovations at 麻豆原创 Sapphire include features that help the world鈥檚 organizations measure, manage and execute their sustainability strategies. 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower and 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management solutions now track carbon footprints at scale and help businesses meet regulatory standards.

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Catering to more than 4 billion people globally, CP Foods is embarking on its next stage of digital transformation with the RISE with 麻豆原创, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management, and 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower solutions. In addition, the 麻豆原创 EHS Management, environment management application will be implemented to future-proof its business and to gain strategic insight into the sustainability impact of its products, processes and infrastructure globally. The company is a leading integrated agro-industrial and food business that is one of the world鈥檚 largest producers of feed, shrimp, poultry and pork. It has operations in 17 countries and exports to more than 50 countries.

Global Net-Zero Ambitions  

In line with CP Foods鈥� goal of becoming the 鈥淪ustainable Kitchen of the World,鈥� CP Foods is the first food processing company in the world with near- and long-term forests, lands and agriculture (FLAG) sustainability targets validated by the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). CP Foods is looking to realize the company鈥檚 of reducing 42% of Scope 1 and 2 emissions and 30.3% of Scope 3 emissions by 2030 鈥� and 90% of Scope 1 and 2 emissions and 72% of Scope 3 emissions by 2050. To achieve these goals, the company is implementing 麻豆原创 Sustainability solutions to record, report and act on real-time sustainability data, driving carbon accounting at both corporate and product levels.   

鈥淣et Zero is the only solution to climate change,鈥� CP Foods CEO Prasit Boondoungpraser said. 鈥淚t is important to us to understand and reduce our impact on the planet, so we create food that is not only safe and nutritious for people but also green and clean for the earth. Feeding our livestock, farming our food and transporting it to people鈥檚 plates incurs emissions we have to be able to record and report. With RISE with 麻豆原创 and 麻豆原创 Sustainability solutions, we will have insight into actual emissions automated in real time rather than relying on manual averages, allowing us to make quick, informed and sustainable business decisions for our operations and for the planet.鈥�  

麻豆原创 plans to provide a technology foundation that will support CP Foods in complying with forthcoming carbon regulations in various markets, including the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (EU C-BAM) and U.S. SEC climate risk disclosures.  

Key to reducing total emissions, CP Foods will focus on supply chain emissions, with its emissions mostly falling under Scope 3. CP Foods will work with the Customer Success organization at 麻豆原创, leverage YASH Technologies鈥� sustainability expertise and build on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to implement 麻豆原创 Sustainability solutions. Doing so will allow it to record and report on its Scope 1 and 2 emissions in Thailand and select Scope 3 (3.1 and 3.4) for its feed business in Thailand covering both FLAG and non-FLAG emissions. The next phase of implementation will extend in scope to cover operations around the world.  

Cloud Sustainability

Paul Marriott, president of 麻豆原创 Asia Pacific & Japan, said: 鈥淪ustainability is a huge opportunity for businesses across Asia. Using RISE with 麻豆原创 and our sustainability solutions, CP Foods is getting ahead of forthcoming emissions regulation and future-proofing its business by using data to make more sustainable decisions. It can use those insights to drive more operational efficiencies, optimize supply chains, and differentiate its business against competitors.鈥�

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Across industries, accurate data is the foundation for both auditable disclosures and reliable insights to steer sustainable transformation. But environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data aggregation and validation can be a daunting challenge given that most companies have not fully integrated their ESG data recording and control into their core financial, procurement, supply chain management, and human resources systems.

For over 50 years, 麻豆原创 has helped businesses master complexity. With today鈥檚 evolving ESG regulatory landscape, including the arrival of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), 麻豆原创 is again rising to the complex challenges of enabling customers to record, report, and act on their sustainability obligations. This includes the difficulties in collecting accurate emissions data across internal operations and global supply chains.

Achieving Competitive Advantage with 麻豆原创 Sustainability Solutions Powered by 麻豆原创 Business AI

By鈥痠ntegrating sustainability data with cloud ERP, 麻豆原创 can uniquely enable businesses with the鈥痑gility鈥痶o keep pace with rapidly evolving ESG standards; link disparate data sources鈥痶o share trusted, real-time insights with sustainability decision-makers; and achieve their net-zero ambitions.

Companies can start today by adopting 鈥� integrated with 鈥� for ESG data management and reporting. They can extend sustainability management with and to help accelerate their journey to the , managing the carbon entering and leaving their systems and balancing their “carbon books” the same way they balance their financial books.

麻豆原创 Business AI can take the value of our sustainability solutions to the next level by helping our customers set data-driven ESG and net-zero strategies, increase the transparency of supply chain emissions, automate sustainability reporting, achieve regulatory compliance, find and mitigate ESG-related risks, and better communicate the value of sustainability to their customers 鈥� all powered by the world’s largest and most comprehensive pool of foundational business data.

Combined with partner services for customer-specific data and reporting requirements, 麻豆原创 Sustainability solutions can offer new levels of business insight for executive-level decision-making to help businesses reach their sustainability goals and comply with CSRD and other regulatory frameworks.

CSRD Toolbox

Companies operating in the EU face pressure from the expanding ESG regulations under CSRD to disclose their sustainability performance with a data granularity and auditability that 鈥� over time 鈥� will bring sustainability reporting on par with financial reporting. CSRD requirements will first impact large public-interest companies with over 500 employees that need to report in 2025 on 2024 ESG performance. Requirements cascade to small and midsize enterprises in coming years.

Under CSRD, companies will need to report based on the requirements of both the EU Taxonomy, which classifies sustainability disclosures for investors, and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), the disclosure rules set by the European Financial Reporting Financial Group (EFRAG), a standard-setting body of the EU. With 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, companies can comply with both the EU Taxonomy and ESRS, gaining agility through the convergence of ESG data management and cloud ERP 鈥� and soon AI-driven business process optimization.

麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower: A Trusted ESG Data Foundation for EU Taxonomy and ESRS

With 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, you can assess activities in line with the EU Taxonomy, reporting on KPIs for eligibility and alignment.

• Enable a holistic view of EU Taxonomy reporting through shared use of data  
• Kick-start EU Taxonomy data management and reporting with pre-built and adaptable templates  
• Simplify the EU Taxonomy process with integration with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud 
• Integrate customer or partner extensions via APIs 

You can also streamline ESRS disclosures, integrating ESG data across systems and extending content and functionality.

• Gather ESG data and determine KPIs 
• Meet evolving ESG and financial disclosure requirements including ESRS 
• Set, track, and achieve targets to support sustainable business 
• Obtain a limited external assurance and prepare for reasonable assurance 

Act Now

Businesses need to start now to be prepared not only for CSRD compliance, but for gaining the insights to steer sustainability investments and future-proof long-term value. 

For over 50 years, 麻豆原创 has been enabling the world鈥檚 leading businesses to master complexity, delivering the integration and innovation needed for industry-leading performance. With 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower and other cloud-driven innovations, 麻豆原创 and its partners can help companies master CSRD as well and build the foundation for the evolution of their long-term sustainability strategies.  

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Sophia Mendelsohn is chief sustainability and commercial officer and co-GM for 麻豆原创 Sustainability. 

In the third quarter of 2023 alone, our customers spanned all shapes, sizes, and industries 鈥� including consumer products, biotechnology, and the public sector 鈥� and proved how much momentum is behind the cloud revolution.鈥�� 

Whether simplifying business operations, adopting innovative solutions, or leading broader cloud transformations, it鈥檚 clear that today鈥檚 top enterprises see 麻豆原创 as a premier partner in driving positive outcomes and lasting change. This is, in no small part, because the future of technology 鈥� which includes things like generative artificial intelligence (AI) 鈥� is all about data. And 麻豆原创 knows data.

We are powering today鈥檚 鈥� and tomorrow鈥檚 鈥� leading businesses with offerings like GROW with 麻豆原创, our public cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) offering for midsize companies; , a comprehensive solution built to help unleash the power of business data; (麻豆原创 BTP), a foundation for continued innovation; and much more.

From net-new growth companies embracing GROW with 麻豆原创 to large municipalities going live on RISE with 麻豆原创, thousands of organizations continue to turn to 麻豆原创 to help power their digital transformations. Some organizations that kicked off their digital transformations this quarter include:

• Northstar Clean Technologies, a Canadian-based clean technology company focused on the sustainable recovery and reprocessing of asphalt shingles, selected GROW with 麻豆原创. As an emerging innovator in sustainable processing, Northstar Clean Technologies expects that 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, public edition will help streamline its current business processes, as well as serve as a foundational ERP that can support its growth and scale with it.
• Leanin鈥� Tree, which ships more than 20 million greeting cards per year featuring original artwork by independent artists from around the world, selected 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, public edition and 麻豆原创 Datasphere, among other solutions. Through GROW with 麻豆原创, Leanin鈥� Tree will be migrating from 麻豆原创 ERP Central Component (麻豆原创 ECC) and is aiming to fully transform and optimize its financial processes while adopting an 鈥渙ut-of-the-box鈥� approach that incorporates 麻豆原创 best practices.
• PureTech Scientific, which was formerly Chemours Glycolic Acid Division and is a global leader in organic synthesis of ultra-high purity alpha hydroxy acids for the life sciences and specialty chemical industries, selected GROW with 麻豆原创, among other 麻豆原创 solutions. Through 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, PureTech Scientific is aiming to adopt a cloud ERP that can not only meet the requirements of today, but of the future. GROW with 麻豆原创 enables PureTech Scientific to have a solution that is ready-to-run while also offering scalability, the delivery of continuous innovation, and support of PureTech Scientific鈥檚 growth ambitions.
• Phoenix Global, a provider of steel mill services to steel producers worldwide, selected GROW with 麻豆原创. By adopting 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, public edition through GROW with 麻豆原创, Phoenix Global is aiming to get a ready-to-run cloud ERP that can deliver the latest best practices and continuous innovation. Through 麻豆原创, Phoenix Global is aiming to accelerate its digital transformation and further improve its operational processes.
• Graybar, a leading North American distributor of electrical, communications, data networking, and industrial products, selected RISE with 麻豆原创. By using 麻豆原创, Graybar expects to simplify its processes, improve its efficiency, and enhance its customer service capabilities.

We鈥檙e also seeing many customers harness the power of their data with solutions like 麻豆原创 Datasphere and 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, which can create reliable and authentic sustainability data. Some customers that chose other 麻豆原创 solutions in Q3 include:

• Adobe, a global leader in digital media and digital marketing solutions, will be leveraging 麻豆原创 Datasphere and 麻豆原创 HANA Cloud within 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform to help optimize its data strategy while also improving efficiency and business value by reducing complexity and cost.
• Fluence Energy, which is a global market leader in energy storage solutions and services and optimization software for renewables and storage, selected the RISE with 麻豆原创 solution and 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, among other solutions. By using 麻豆原创, Fluence Energy is aiming to scale faster, gain better visibility into its supply chain, and improve overall efficiency.

And it鈥檚 not just customers starting their journey with 麻豆原创: Q3 also saw a number of organizations go live on their 麻豆原创 solutions, an incredible step towards realizing value from their transformation. Some examples include:

• The City of Vancouver, located in British Columbia, Canada, went live on 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, private edition via RISE with 麻豆原创. By using 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, the City of Vancouver expects to be able to adopt innovation quicker, in addition to simplifying its digital landscape and improving overall efficiency.
• Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people, went live on 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions, including 麻豆原创 Business Network. In addition to creating a globally connected platform that allows its suppliers and buyers to collaborate, 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions are helping Gilead Sciences streamline its global procurement process.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, and we鈥檙e not done yet. We鈥檙e continuing to invest in the innovations that will deliver growth, value, and success to our customers around the world 鈥� and that will continue to support our customers鈥� transformations here in North America.

Lloyd Adams is president of 麻豆原创 North America.

麻豆原创 understands this urgency and is ready to help. Our daily conversations with customers have shown us what they need and expect when managing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data and emissions footprints. One thing is clear: the speed and agility of cloud delivery combined with the ability to integrate sustainability data into the core enterprise resource planning (ERP) system will optimize customers鈥� sustainability and financial performance and form the foundation for their future business success.

Sustainability Footprint and ESG Data Management Now Available in RISE with 麻豆原创  

With the new premium plus edition for RISE with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, customers can accelerate innovation, infuse artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, adapt to market changes, and address complex, evolving ESG regulations and reporting requirements. With the inclusion of and in the premium plus edition, organizations can gain significantly enhanced sustainability outcomes. 

麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management allows organizations to get highly granular footprint calculations on product and corporate emissions across scope 1, 2, and 3, gaining detailed carbon footprint insights. With emissions data embedded beside operational and financial data in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, business functions including procurement, supply chain, operations, and finance can see the broader context of their sustainability impacts, enabling better business decisions.  

With 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, organizations can combine different data sources for one trusted view of their ESG data. By automating the collection and integration of sustainability data, companies can set targets to steer their business to achieve sustainability goals holistically, monitor progress and gain actionable insights from dependable data, and enhance trust by establishing robust and auditable ESG reporting to global standards.  
 
麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management and 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower are built on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP) and can seamlessly integrate with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud. With a cloud deployment, both solutions receive ongoing innovation updates, a critical benefit particularly when facing a global set of evolving ESG regulatory standards. Other benefits include leveraging automation 鈥� and soon AI 鈥� to help simplify compliance, reporting, and auditability.  

The Foundations of a Green Ledger in the Cloud 

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management, and 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower are the building blocks of your sustainability stack. They can provide a path to the concept, where companies can treat carbon like money, managing the carbon entering and leaving their systems and balancing their “carbon books” the same way they balance their financial books. 

Harnessing quality data worthy of the green ledger will take time. But organizations need to start now to be prepared. By integrating sustainability data in the cloud, they can gain insights to steer towards a low-carbon business model, avoiding manual reliance on spreadsheets across differing sources of data and disparate lines of business. 

Future-Proofing Agile Innovation with the Cloud 

It is our mission to support customers in pursuing sustainability-focused opportunities and innovation, preparing to mitigate climate and social-related risks, and driving long-term business value. With our cloud-driven innovations, we help customers build the foundation for the evolution of their long-term sustainability strategies by giving them the tools to be agile and responsive, maintain control of integration and data flows, and master the complexity of sustainability challenges 鈥� and to achieve our collective goal of creating a more sustainable world.鈥� 

To learn more, read 鈥�麻豆原创 Diversifies Cloud Offerings to Accelerate Customer Innovation鈥� and visit .

Sophia Mendelsohn is chief sustainability and commercial officer and co-GM for 麻豆原创 Sustainability.
Gunther Rothermel is chief product officer and co-GM for 麻豆原创 Sustainability.

鈥淲e do that by using the biodiversity of this region, the Cerrado in Brazil,鈥� Francisco de Blanco, S.Oleum co-founder and CEO, told 麻豆原创 at the company鈥檚 headquarters, an innovative farm just outside Jo茫o Pinheiro.

Why the Brazilian outback? This tropical savanna is home to the maca煤ba, a highly adaptable oil-producing tree with a penchant for scrubbing harmful CO2 from the air. Maca煤ba fruit yields advanced vegetable oils (AVOs) and high-protein food 鈥� and it can be 15 times more productive than soybeans.

鈥淲e are restoring the landscape that was deforested…Macau虂ba was native here many, many years ago,鈥� Felipe Morbi, S.Oleum co-founder and Agroforestry VP,听 said. 鈥淣ow we are bringing back these trees, and also all the other species, to restore this biodiversity.鈥�

S.Oleum seeks to accomplish this scientifically, using maca煤ba and other crops in an integrated crop-livestock-forest approach, according to Morbi. The goal is to create working farms that rejuvenate degraded, low-yielding soil 鈥� and that sequester into the soil more carbon than they generate.

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Science-Based Approach to Reforesting the Cerrado

鈥淲e are looking for the balance of the system,鈥� Morbi said in a new . 鈥淲e will measure the amount of carbon in the soil, the moisture, the biodiversity in terms of the plants we have, and also native animals coming back to the area.鈥�

Toward that end, S.Oleum is starting small, but aiming big. Most of the current crop grows on a 700-hectare, or more than 1,700-acre, pilot farm. But S.Oleum intends to plant more than 65 million additional maca煤ba trees by 2029, which would reforest 180,00 hectares 鈥� about 444,800 acres 鈥� in Brazil鈥檚 southeastern state of Minas Gerais.

Over time, maca煤ba trees also help improve the nutrient and moisture capacity of the soil, making it easier to grow other crops, according to de Blanco. And S.Oleum increases farm productivity by growing carefully chosen crops in between rows of maca煤ba trees, such as sunflowers, peanuts, and yucas.

鈥淚f you do it right, agriculture as a system is positive for the environment,鈥� de Blanco said. 鈥淧lants that were deforested a few decades ago, they are currently in a poor state because they were depleted by poor management…We believe there are better ways, and that鈥檚 what we are pursuing here.鈥�

An innovative case in point: maca煤ba trees increase a biome鈥檚 carbon sequestration levels. Removing this greenhouse gas helps more than the planet; S.Oleum also generates revenue by selling carbon credits and building trust via its data.

Any Little Bit of Data

鈥淎ny little thing, any generation of data that R&D is currently developing, is extremely important,鈥� Mirelle Santos, S.Oleum Agroforestry R&D manager, said. 鈥淲e want to deploy technologies as dictated by those urgent needs.鈥�

This could include remote sensing via drones that run fruit-recognition software, according to Santos. This would help S.Oleum gather and compile data quickly, without human error 鈥� and without sending workers, who must dress in personal protective equipment (PPE) to defend against snakes, mosquitos, the brutal Cerrado sun (even in winter), and dangerous maca煤ba thorns, which grow even on seedlings.

S.Oleum鈥檚 intricate business model combines agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, and carbon offsetting 鈥� and that leads to a lot of complexity. 麻豆原创 technology will be an important differentiator for this small enterprise, as well as a foundation for its future growth.

鈥淲e have a big project to run; so, a lot of people, a lot of machines, a lot of suppliers,鈥� Morbi said. 鈥淎nd we need everything in the right moment, in the right way.鈥�

How to Best Manage ESG Metrics

鈥溌槎乖� is different because it is recognized as one of the most reliable ERP systems on the market, not only based on the technology,鈥� de Blanco said. 鈥淎lso, because it has well-established and well-defined processes.鈥�

Standardizing processes was 鈥渆xtremely important鈥� for S.Oleum both internally and to inspire customer, stakeholder, and regulatory confidence, according to de Blanco. 麻豆原创 will also enable S.Oleum to run its circular enterprise as well as record, report, and act on its sustainability data.

鈥淲e have a very integrated system, and a very circular way to produce things,鈥� de Blanco said. 鈥淔inding out where waste is generated 鈥� and where it鈥檚 being used 鈥� is very important to ensure the carbon intensity and the circularity of our systems at our entire site…This is where 麻豆原创 helps us.鈥�

麻豆原创 S/4HANA, 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions, 麻豆原创 Concur solutions, and 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions will help standardize all of S.Oleum鈥檚 processes, which will improve transparency and compliance, according to S.Oleum IT Director Marcio Propp. To help better manage and understand its myriad environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics, the company has also begun implementation of and .

鈥淚t is super important that we have a very robust core system in place because it will serve as the basis for all our other processes…and practically all niche applications focused on digital agriculture connect with this core with 麻豆原创,鈥� Propp said. 鈥溌槎乖� is an agribusiness market standard, and it makes perfect sense for S.Oleum to be part of this ecosystem.鈥�

That鈥檚 a big deal because compliant, transparent ESG metrics are crucial to S.Oleum鈥檚 success, according to de Blanco.

A Matter of Trust

鈥淪omewhere around one-third of our revenues come from carbon credits,鈥� de Blanco said. 鈥淭his is our, let鈥檚 say, core business…to convert sustainability into revenues and financial results.鈥�

That will require trust. 麻豆原创 core technologies, such as 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and , will help S.Oleum keep that trust, thanks to a reliable foundation of sustainability data and robust, auditable ESG metrics for reporting.

鈥淢y advice for companies that are starting their sustainability endeavor: do it as quick as you can,鈥� de Blanco said. 鈥淎nd do it attached to science.鈥�

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Leveraging the Power of Data with 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower

Companies across industries are responding to rapidly increasing sustainability and and setting ambitious sustainability targets. Yet, many face the challenge of gaining transparency into the data needed for effective and actionable sustainability management. They need ways to monitor and manage their green lines as meticulously as their top and bottom lines.

Current sustainability management relies heavily on data averages and estimates. The inability to track, manage, and gain insights from live data and embed it into core business processes can cripple even the most well-intentioned sustainability efforts. Worse, it can mislead investors, create compliance issues, and misguide transformation efforts. Unifying sustainability data provides significant gains in capabilities and competitive performance.

can offer organizations a robust tool for delivering audit-ready sustainability data that aligns with various sustainability and ESG standards. As part of the 麻豆原创 Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises solution, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower helps enable organizations to unlock the power of data to record, report, and act on their sustainability goals 鈥� at scale. Companies can drive holistic steering by setting targets; monitor progress and gain actionable insights from dependable sustainability data; and gain trust by establishing robust and auditable sustainability and ESG reporting.

Developing a Systematic Approach to Sustainability

麻豆原创 customer and partner msg global is a consulting, implementation, and managed services provider committed to enhancing operational efficiency and decision-making capabilities through the utilization of 麻豆原创 technology. As the company set its sights on becoming a sustainable enterprise, it implemented 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower to help enable the data transparency and actionable insights needed to steer holistically towards its sustainability goals.

Cooke oversees msg global鈥檚 sustainability business and technology consulting practice, in addition to collaborating with Ulrich Pilsl, chief financial officer at msg global, on its internal sustainability strategy. At 麻豆原创 Sapphire, Cooke shared insights on msg global鈥檚 experience with 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, highlighting both achievements and challenges of msg global鈥檚 sustainability journey.

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As a midsized company, msg global is still navigating its path to sustainability. Over the years, it has undertaken several corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. However, it recently shifted its focus to sustainability by adopting a more structured approach to sustainability. This approach integrates sustainability into core business processes through transparent reporting and goal setting.

With 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, msg global published its in 2022, tracking key sustainability performance indicators. 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower allows msg global to consolidate data from its 麻豆原创 systems across HR and finance departments, as well as its non-麻豆原创 systems. With improved visibility into sustainability data across core business operations, company leaders can make informed sustainability decisions based on real-time insights.

Cooke states that the implementation of 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower enables msg global to establish baselines, generate reports, and set future-oriented targets and objectives. With this solution, msg global can effectively record, report, and act on sustainability.

Embarking on the Journey

Every business on a sustainability journey encounters obstacles along the way. msg global continues to explore ways to enhance data quality and availability. The company plans to implement and to help gather seamless, scalable, mission-critical business data and connect and automate business processes. msg global is also implementing to help gain a better understanding of travel management. Access to more comprehensive travel data is essential for a professional services company committed to sustainable business operations.

Cooke encourages businesses undergoing sustainability transformations to simply take the first step. She believes msg global is on the right track. She and her fellow sustainability leaders continually monitor progress with insights from 麻豆原创 and make ongoing improvements along the way.

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• 麻豆原创 Solutions Enable Organizations to Record, Report, and Act on their Sustainability Ambitions

IDC reviews the roles of major ICT players’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts across three pillars: Technology as an Enabler, Technology Vendor Performance, and Technology for Good. During its assessment of software vendors, IDC has found that 麻豆原创 performs exceptionally well compared to its peers. 麻豆原创’s strong performance stems from its commitment to making sustainability an integral part of its mission. This is reflected in the company’s customer offerings and the skills it is incorporating into the organization at global and regional levels.

麻豆原创 placed among the top three in the Technology as an Enabler pillar, outperforming the market average in all five main categories 鈥� monetization, sustainable software features and practices, ESG management reporting software, software for operational optimization, and advisory services and sustainable ecosystems. One of the main reasons for the placement is the efficient internal product standards that ensure applications or services are both cost efficient and resource efficient. 麻豆原创 complies with several industry standards, including ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 22301, ISO/IEC 27018, and ISO 10012.

麻豆原创 Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises is the umbrella cloud-based solution for a comprehensive package that can provide insights into organizations’ sustainable performance and can enable them to record, report, and act on their respective sustainability goals. Flagship solution can provide customers with holistic steering and ESG reporting along the three main sustainability areas: climate action, circular economy, and social responsibility.

麻豆原创 鈥嬧�婼ustainability solutions deliver company-wide functionality and industry-specific features that can help you incorporate sustainability in business at scale by embedding operations, experience, and financial insights into your core business processes.鈥嬧��

One clear example is 麻豆原创鈥檚 commitment to helping companies track carbon accounting with more precision and control by using actual data across their business operations and supply chains in sync with financial flows. In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal about carbon accounting, Sebastian Steinhaeuser, chief strategy officer at 麻豆原创, shared his thoughts on why companies need carbon accounting: 鈥淲e need to standardize how we do carbon accounting globally because, today, companies still take different approaches based on individual solutions, which aren鈥檛 easy to compare. We need carbon accounting with the same accuracy, detail, and transparency as financial accounting and standardizations like the SEC or ISSB so that we also operate all on the same common framework of rules like we do in financial accounting today.鈥�

The Technology Vendor Performance pillar comprises five categories 鈥� governance, social sustainability, supply chain for company operations, operational sustainability, and environmental sustainability. 麻豆原创 outperformed the market average and was among the top five performers across these categories.

Sustainability has always been embedded as a part of 麻豆原创鈥檚 governance. Strong evidence of 麻豆原创鈥檚 commitment to sustainability is the inclusion of sustainability KPIs in all Executive Board members’ compensation plans. Additionally, every quarter, 麻豆原创 reviews sustainability practices, publishes financials, and selects sustainability KPIs. 麻豆原创 adheres to various non-financial reporting standards, such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Taskforce for Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), Climate Disclosure Project (CDP), and European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

麻豆原创 supports programs such as Targets for Women in Management, Women to Watch, Inclusive Mindset Challenge, Fair Pay Initiative, Business Women’s Network, Black Employee Network, and Pride@麻豆原创 to promote diversity and inclusion. 麻豆原创 is one of the few companies that impose an internal carbon tax, although that carbon tax applies solely to new projects and activities that require the consumption of fossil fuels. 麻豆原创 also charges an internal carbon price for business flights in most countries they leave from, thus incentivizing the use of eco-friendly alternatives, such as traveling by train.

麻豆原创 was placed in the top five in the Technology for Good pillar. 麻豆原创 achieved a maximum score due to a strong global corporate social responsibility (CSR) and volunteering presence. 麻豆原创 employees contributed over 117,000 hours of pro bono time and committed 27.6 million euros globally to common good causes. Employees鈥� understanding of social and environmental issues is deepened through the 614 virtual and on-site volunteering opportunities.

As IDC points out in the report, the importance of sustainability in 麻豆原创’s strategy and business model can be traced to the company’s mission statement: “[Our purpose is] to help the world run better and improve people’s lives. We strive to achieve this as both an enabler and an exemplar of sustainable business. In addition, we want our own business operations and practices to be intelligent, sustainable, and inclusive.” 麻豆原创 is committed to multiple sustainability milestones, including carbon neutrality in its own operations by the end of 2023 and achieving net-zero emissions along its value chain by 2030.

About the IDC Sustainability Index

IDC evaluated 麻豆原创鈥檚 performance against more than 130 parameters present in IDC’s Technology for Sustainability and Social Impact (TSSI) framework for software vendors. IDC’s TSSI Index offers a view of the current state of the European ICT industry regarding sustainability and social impact. The assessment focused on 麻豆原创鈥檚 three core areas 鈥� ESG achievements, sustainability portfolio of products and solutions, and altruistic initiatives that provide technological solutions.

IDC selects vendors for profiles based on their overall sustainability performances measured against a predefined criterion, their proactivity on sustainability issues, and their provision of information in a transparent manner. Some of the other vendors like Adobe, Benchmark ESG, BMC Software, Eset, Genesys, Goby, IBM, IFS, Logo, Microsoft, MobileXpense, NetApp, OneTrust, Oracle, Persefoni, Sage, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SoftwareAG, Sphera, TietoEvry, and Wolters Kluwers were also assessed.

IDC鈥檚 Sustainability Framework is built on three pillars 鈥� Technology Vendor Performance, Technology as an Enabler, and Technology for Good. 麻豆原创 performed exceptionally well, outperforming the industry average on each of the three pillars and all 15 major categories that were assessed.

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Jonas Dennler is chief marketing and solutions officer for Sustainability at 麻豆原创.

However, carbon accounting is still done mainly using spreadsheets and semi-automated tools that use estimates and averages for carbon footprints. Only 9% of companies have a comprehensive view of their greenhouse gas emissions and their impact across the entire value chain.

This is no longer enough. We need to account for carbon with much more precision and control by using actual data values across our business operations and supply chains in sync with financial flows. We need to redefine 鈥渞esource鈥� in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and extend our understanding of resources beyond financials. 麻豆原创 now brings a precision-approach to do just that by enabling transactional accounting for carbon.

Introducing Future-Proof Solutions for Transactional Carbon Accounting

麻豆原创鈥檚 approach to transactional carbon accounting comprises three future-proof capabilities.

First is , a single solution to calculate and manage carbon flows with high granularity on company, process, and product levels across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. The solution integrates capabilities from previously released 麻豆原创 solutions and adds new functionalities, such as the ability to manage a greater scope of emissions sources and support for a broader range of industry-specific requirements. Using 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management helps provide a seamless integration with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, allowing for a strong data foundation to calculate footprints directly from individual transactions at each step of production. Companies can reduce their climate risk and make progress towards their climate commitments by better adhering to and reporting on rapidly changing standards. They can also achieve operational excellence by dramatically improving the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of emissions calculations and management. 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management will be available from June 2023.

Second, 麻豆原创 offers , a new application designed to securely exchange standardized sustainability data, including product footprints, along the value chain. The application allows precision accuracy by gathering actual carbon data directly from suppliers. 麻豆原创 Sustainability Data Exchange, part of , uses the carbon data interoperability standards established by the , hosted by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The beta version is available and will be generally available in Q3 2023.

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Third, 麻豆原创 also introduces the green ledger concept, which combines financial and environmental data to enable deep insights and effective decision-making at different points across the business process. Green ledger will be embedded into and for and will deliver new capabilities with each release. The next major update, for example, offers a new way to embed carbon data, starting with most impactful scope categories, into product-level costing.

Using these three powerful capabilities that , executives can have a future-proof tool kit to help manage and reduce their carbon footprints. The 麻豆原创 solutions record data based on actuals instead of averages to increase data transparency, accuracy, and reliability. The high-quality carbon data, like the financial data, is auditable, transparent, and reliable. To take climate action, companies sync the emissions data with financial data to make granular, accurate, and right-time decisions that are both financially and environmentally sound.

Acting on Carbon Emissions Data

麻豆原创鈥檚 carbon accounting solutions allow business decision-makers to not only see emissions on an operations level, but also at the product level by including carbon footprints alongside financial data to make trade-offs between cost efficiency and carbon intensity. To make these assessments, carbon footprints need to be available at a granular level and at the point where the business decision is made.

In the automotive industry, for example, the sources of steel, rubber, batteries, and electrical components are key elements of the carbon footprint of an electric car manufacturer鈥檚 product. 麻豆原创 solutions provide the foundational data for these purchased materials and components, as well as consumed energy and other inputs, and combine it with additional data sources such as life cycle assessment databases.

Using the input data, the footprint is calculated by matching source data with emission factors. Like in financial accounting, the inflows and outflows of materials, components, and products are traced and accounted for with a high level of transparency and auditability.

This isn鈥檛 accounting for accounting鈥檚 sake. This level of data transparency helps teams across the business, from the C-suite to supply chain management to marketing, take sustainability action. They can make decisions together on both cost and carbon emissions that are rarely made in parallel today. Based on both cost and carbon values, the car manufacturer can scenario plan and make fully informed decisions about how to drive optimal financial and sustainability performance.

Bringing a Holistic View to Sustainable Business

To truly run sustainably and decarbonize business at the speed and scale needed, companies must . By embedding sustainability data into their core business processes through their ERP, executives can achieve a holistic, enterprise-wide performance capability.

Based on the ERP backbone, sustainable business data is the foundation for setting regulatory-compliant KPIs and disclosing sustainability progress to a broad range of reporting frameworks using . This holistic view is vital to understanding where emissions are occurring, setting accurate net-zero targets, and identifying specific areas to take action for maximum decarbonization impact.听The are cloud-based, modular, and integrate with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

Peter Bakker, CEO of WBCSD, said accountants will save the world. He very well may be right. With over 50 years of experience in financial accounting, future-proof technology, and wide access to customer and partner ecosystems, 麻豆原创 is well-positioned deliver high-quality emissions accounting to rapidly scale business decarbonization.

Sebastian Steinhaeuser is chief strategy officer at 麻豆原创.

鈥淥rganizations are struggling to forecast energy costs in a volatile market and understand the impact of new trends such as e-mobility on operations and finance,鈥� said Catherine Garcera, global head of Sustainability, Services Industry at 麻豆原创. 鈥淭hey need resilience against the current energy crisis and the ability to grow and generate profits while meeting corporate sustainability goals.鈥�

Step 1: Power Up Energy Savings with Digital Twins

Lowering energy consumption and operating costs begins with a thorough understanding of an organization鈥檚 energy data. Leading-edge companies are using digital twins to capture and analyze real-time energy usage data including electricity, natural gas, and renewables. That鈥檚 the purpose behind Flexinergy, an energy management software platform developed by , an 麻豆原创 partner. The platform creates a digital version of an organization鈥檚 energy contracts and usage, allowing the customer to pre-calculate the bill. Information can include distribution costs across subsidiaries, taxes, size and location of facilities, occupancy rates, external temperatures, and more. This helps customers catch invoice mistakes, evaluate energy efficiency, and reduce consumption.

鈥淚t鈥檚 not unusual to find discrepancies between what the bill should be and the provider鈥檚 actual invoice,鈥� said Erwin Guizouarn, CEO and founder of Evolution Energie. 鈥淐ustomers also use our software to better forecast energy costs in case of price fluctuations, new contracts, or supply chain disruptions.鈥�

Guizouarn said that customers can be overcharged up to 5% on an annual basis due to billing errors. As for cost reductions, one large airport saved 17% in energy consumption.

Real-time data became particularly important for organizations during the recent energy crisis. Guizouarn said that customers can explore what-if scenarios, factoring in changeable energy prices and other parameters like lower carbon emission fuels, revised contract terms, or hedging to lower risk in case of energy price fluctuations. Ongoing alerts notify decision-makers of deviations to the plan, say if energy prices climb higher than expected, helping companies adjust strategies as needed.

Evolution Energie first began working with 麻豆原创 through its participation in the Green Tech and Sustainability cohort of , the company鈥檚 global B2B accelerator. With shared business-to-business target markets, both companies are proving the incredible power of connected data.

鈥淢erging energy-related data with financial information from your system and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information from , you can see the impact on profitability and emissions objectives,鈥� said Garcera. 鈥淵ou can adjust operations by day, week, or even season to gain efficiencies that could increase profits while meeting sustainability commitments.鈥�

Step 2: Transition to Green Energy

Moving to green energy is another step that energy-intensive companies can take to achieve ambitious decarbonization targets. Some customers are increasingly focused on purchasing renewable energy, as well as producing green energy and investing in green assets. Here, too, a digital twin can help companies capture energy usage and resultant costs while tracking CO2 emissions from electricity, biomass, hydrogen, and other renewable sources.

鈥淵ou can balance your green energy strategies against the cost of new contracts and greenhouse gas emission targets,鈥� said Garcera. 鈥淚n addition, companies need to ensure the provenance of the green energy they consume for accurate reporting against corporate sustainability objectives, supporting the brand鈥檚 image and building trust with customers and investors.鈥�

Step 3: Realistically Explore New Energy Trends

While the vision is to consume as much green energy as possible, organizations are tempering sustainable business plans with reality. Some industries like aviation aren鈥檛 ready for full decarbonization; there鈥檚 limited availability of sustainable aviation fuel and it will take significant efforts to revamp complex infrastructure. In any case, organizations require energy strategies that combine finance, risk management, and sustainability.

鈥淔ast-moving energy prices on top of changing sustainability regulations mean that companies have to continually monitor costs to find more efficiencies, and prove compliance with corporate commitments and industry regulations,鈥� said Garcera. 鈥淭he more you can accurately anticipate disruptions, the better you can make decisions to adapt for business resilience.鈥�

Green Market Revolution Fueled by Informed Data

Connected data is foundational to managing energy consumption and costs. analysts predicted that by 2025, 75% of large cities and communities will form industry ecosystems with IT, architectural, engineering, and real estate firms to share data, applications, and expertise to address ESG issues. With zero-emission mandates moving apace, researchers advised organizations to continuously follow the price and performance and capability improvements in renewable energy systems and also 鈥渨ork with supply chain partners to improve procurement efficiencies.鈥� As unpredictable as the next crisis may be, organizations can stay grounded with accurate data to build a resilient future.

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When combined with partner expertise and innovation, that reach across business domains and processes becomes a powerful tool for advancing key corporate agendas, including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. It enables our customers to secure their business, uncover new opportunities, mitigate risks, and get ahead of operational turbulence while dismantling barriers that stand in the way of a healthier planet and more equitable society.

Whether fueled by environmental laws or consumer demand, increasing organizational focus on ESG-related goals is opening opportunities for partners 鈥� key junctures where their innovations can contribute. Implementation, content, and technology experts can take advantage of sustainability trends to help customers balance increased competitiveness with positive impacts under the new ESG principles.

A Vital Platform for Meaningful Change

Over the last few years,听听(麻豆原创 BTP) has empowered 麻豆原创 partners to innovate, integrate, and extend solutions across lines of business and industries in the cloud. Now, they can turn their attention, knowledge, and ingenuity toward questions about sustainability, helping customers understand where to start, where to end up, and how to get there quickly.

麻豆原创 partners can rapidly innovate on 麻豆原创 BTP, thanks to the collaboration-driven nature of the partner ecosystem and access to enablement and support powered by 麻豆原创 around ESG practices. In return, they can be well-equipped to deliver on expectations for revenue generation, efficiency improvement, and risk mitigation through emissions and waste reduction, circular business models, and sustainable and responsible leadership.

Take, for example, the digitalization of supply chains. Sustainability is now being infused into the business function’s DNA as companies pay more attention to lowering their carbon footprint, minimizing waste, and sourcing materials responsibly. But the greatest success comes from ESG initiatives combined with 鈥� not competing against 鈥� objectives for increasing system resilience, expanding logistics capacity, or protecting operations from disruptions that threaten customer fulfillment.

With climate change ranking as high as economic instability among top concerns for companies and their customers, more and more 麻豆原创 partners 鈥� such as听听补苍诲听听鈥� have come to understand that sustainability cannot continue to be placed on the back burner. Instead, they help customers see how ESG principles can help deliver goods and services sustainably, improve operational efficiency, reduce business costs, and overcome risks to help ensure supply chain resilience around the globe.

ESG Innovation Materializes through Strong Collaboration

Software such as the听听solution, which is built on 麻豆原创 BTP, demonstrates the strength of the collaboration between 麻豆原创 partners and customers when bringing ESG innovation to market. Our partners can create a real-time, data-driven environment that empowers organizations to comply with reporting and auditability requirements imposed by national and regional governments, including the International Sustainability Standards Board and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

As a component of a unified platform connecting data and business processes, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower enables partners to help customers combine accurate, auditable, and reliable financial and nonfinancial data. This approach provides the insights and transparency needed to make specific changes in how businesses operate. Additionally, since 麻豆原创 software touches most of the world’s day-to-day commerce, the solution helps unlock the inherent power of existing data to record, report, and act on business and ESG goals.

But our partners’ use of 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower during customer engagements doesn鈥檛 stop there. They can build on the solution鈥檚 predefined integration capabilities with live 麻豆原创 systems, such as , to instantly upgrade audit-ready data and connect HR, finance, and supply chain organizational structures to crucial sustainability metrics. This work brings the sustainability data layer to life, transporting new sustainability practices into their critical business processes and functions with actual data.

Furthermore, the presence of prebuilt content libraries in the solution allows partners to accelerate the realization of their customers’ sustainability visions. They can pinpoint which processes need to change to reduce emissions and where operations can benefit from being more circular and automated.

The Next Phase of Data Intelligence Transformation

We are reaching a fork in the road where businesses will have two key choices in their digital transformation journey. They can either invest in ESG efforts to gain the associated benefits of circularity, efficiency, and resilience or stray from the sustainability and process integrity that environmentally discerning customers demand.

This emerging reality is quickly pushing the boundaries of what it means to be competitive. And for most organizations, becoming experts in capturing and reporting on the correct data and connecting the necessary processes can be daunting without consistent guidance and support.

麻豆原创 customers working with our partners can leverage the latest innovations in the field of sustainability as part of their data intelligence transformation powered by 麻豆原创 BTP. And more importantly, they can realize new business opportunities and act as a positive force for sustainable business practices.

Learn more about , ,听补苍诲听. If you’re interested in software partnership opportunities with 麻豆原创, check out the听. And if you’re already a partner, explore these resources available on the 麻豆原创 Partner Portal site:

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Gabriele Goertz is vice president and global head of the Sustainability Ecosystem at 麻豆原创.

The new ESG strategy builds on the strength of the existing , which has successfully delivered business transformation solutions to clients in more than 80 countries.

The strategy includes co-innovated solutions, created with PwC鈥檚 , aimed at enabling businesses to apply ESG metrics through their operations that are trustworthy, auditable and verifiable. The solutions leverage the 麻豆原创 Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises solution, along with the 听and the . Together, PwC and 麻豆原创 help organizations leverage the solutions they need to fulfill compliance requirements and drive growth to support the ever-increasing expectations of customers and investors. They also assist customers in shaping the future of their net zero strategy and sustainability reporting.

PwC and 麻豆原创鈥檚 strategy includes solutions encompassing an enterprise-wide ESG strategy, ranging from trading optimization and tax credit recognition to third-party risk management and competitive analysis. Three top challenge areas for ESG, net zero and sustainability reporting will also be addressed:

• Reporting and disclosure helping to satisfy requirements to materially report and disclose investor-grade carbon measuring data to meet demands of investors, lenders, regulators and customers
• Operationalizing sustainability to support the incorporation of ESG measures, especially carbon issues, directly into business functions, such as trading, capitalization and tax
• Supply chain risk management, monitoring and compliance extending support for ESG measures to cover the impact of suppliers on organizational performance

Solutions like , based on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, have already demonstrated the strength of the collaboration between the two organizations in bringing ESG innovation to market.

PwC and 麻豆原创 are dedicated to helping organizations respond to the reporting and auditability requirements imposed by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). They also support companies in complying with a related ruling proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Solutions provided by PwC and 麻豆原创 enable the real-time, data-driven environment customers require to operate and grow the sustainable enterprise of the future.

Bob Moritz, Global Chairman, PwC said: 鈥淓SG has become a business imperative and is central to PwC鈥檚 global strategy, The New Equation, which aims to help clients build trust with their stakeholders and deliver sustained outcomes. New ESG reporting and disclosure requirements are being established, and greater transparency is critical to building trust. This belief is core to our new co-innovation strategy with 麻豆原创, expanding our collaboration to create a dedicated focus on ESG solution development. PwC has been working intensely to help companies deliver on the requirements needed to achieve their ESG goals. Combining our expertise and reputation for trust and integrity with 麻豆原创鈥檚 technology platform will help bring broader capabilities and solutions to respond to organizations鈥� challenges in meeting their ESG and sustainability commitments.鈥�

Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE, said: 鈥淭he key to every organization鈥檚 ability to reach their sustainability goals and drive positive change is transparency. Our collaboration will combine the deep industry expertise and customer insights of PwC with our leading sustainability technology portfolio. The resulting ESG transparency will help companies reinvent their business models and deliver the sustainable outcomes the world urgently needs.鈥�

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麻豆原创鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 麻豆原创 customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 麻豆原创 helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 麻豆原创 helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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According to a pulse survey conducted by the , 76% of employees want flexibility in where they work and 93% flexibility in when they work. The desire for flexible work is strongest among women, working parents, and employees of color who have shown gains in feelings of belonging working remotely. Specifically, 81% of Black respondents say they want flexibility in where they work, compared to 75% of White respondents.

This data is in direct contrast to what most executives report that they want in post-pandemic workforce policies. Of those currently working fully remotely, nearly half of all executives surveyed (44%) want to work from the office every day, compared to 17% of employees. And 75% of these executives say they want to work from the office three to five days a week versus only 34% of employees.

So, what are companies to do? How can they make informed decisions about what鈥檚 best for leaders, for the business, and for their employees?

Applying a Sustainability Lens to Work Location Decision

One way of looking at the issues of return to office or hybrid work is from a business sustainability perspective. For example, if forcing people back to the office will make critical employees more likely to leave their jobs, you have a real flight risk issue impacting the sustainability of your business. Your business must have enough people with the right skills at the right time to propel it forward.

Another perspective to consider is how today鈥檚 business environment has been transformed by climate change, nature loss, and more. The planet needs change, and people demand change. What if, when making decisions about who comes into the office and when, executives considered the carbon footprint generated by employee travel and commutes, weighed against the energy usage working from home, along with the sustainability causes that their employees support?

This would require implementing next-generation holistic steering and reporting that maps operational and experiential data to show progress on goals such as reducing the carbon footprint of the business. Imagine executives having climate and natural capital accounting at their fingertips, including individual and collective employee carbon footprint tracking.

This is the kind of holistic steering and reporting that groups such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) want companies to integrate into their strategic decision-making. Integrating economic, environmental, and social performance data into decisions 鈥� referred to as Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics 鈥� can help executives serve their own goals, respect their employees鈥� preferences for when and where they work, and contribute to reaching sustainability goals that make the world a cleaner, greener place.

How 麻豆原创 Can Help

In 2020, 麻豆原创 committed to enable companies to report on the WEF鈥檚 Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics. As promised, we have delivered to help enable holistic enterprise-wide sustainability performance management. 麻豆原创 also made it easier to become a sustainable business and reduce carbon footprints with , which can enable businesses to move toward lower carbon emissions and more sustainable operations. 麻豆原创鈥檚 data-driven approach lets businesses embed sustainability comprehensively and gain actionable insights across the entire value chain to enable companies to transition to low-carbon business processes.

Faced with an ambitious sustainability agenda and carbon-lowering targets, one 麻豆原创 customer wanted to go further and consider the employee wishes for home/office work, and the carbon emissions generated from their commute to work against the energy efficiency of their home offices. The company had committed to lowering its enterprise carbon emissions and wanted a mechanism to support managers鈥� operational workforce planning processes.

麻豆原创 built a proof of concept (PoC) application in just one day once the employee survey was collected. The PoC decision support application was realized as follows:

Employee address data was acquired from records using the standard delivered API. 麻豆原创 Data Quality Management and microservices for location data were used for both data cleansing 鈥� a big bonus since the customer was able to cleanse inaccurate addresses in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central 鈥� and data enrichment to geocode the home and work addresses with the latitude, longitude, and altitude information. The world of geo-location services was opened.

Demographic measures and dimensions were acquired from 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics using the standard 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud connector.

While trying to understand employee sentiment on workplace and flexibility preferences, a survey was created using Employee Experience Management Solutions from 麻豆原创 and Qualtrics. The survey allowed for employees, whose jobs enabled them to work from home, to answer questions relating to their preferences for the number of days a week they wanted to work from home and their commute (means and time of travel). The insights gathered allowed us to understand that the travel time to work 鈥� not distance 鈥� is a major factor in determining retention risk amongst various demographic groups and so the information was valuable input for the flight risk tool they had in 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud enterprise reporting.

was then able to use external Web services and geo-location services to calculate the travel distance and travel time to work by various means of transport. One of the services was then able to determine the carbon emissions for the means of travel that the employee had specified. The commute travel time by job grade is a leading predictor of flight risk and is easily added to the flight risk prediction dataset.

The systems also gathered information of all the corporate and possible work locations. This opened the possibility for work location optimization, but it was not part of the scope of the PoC.

The data was then blended using 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, specifically 麻豆原创 Data Warehouse Cloud, and anonymization views were defined to protect actual home addresses from being shown. Real-time 麻豆原创 HANA data anonymization allowed the application to use actual addresses to accurately calculate the travel metrics while safely anonymizing sensitive data for dashboard visualization and drill-down.

A dashboard was built and refined to analyze and interrogate the employee commute measures and identify specific employee carbon emissions each working day. Geospatial representation and visualization were built and demonstrated with interactive zoom and data filters. A what-if scenario was demonstrated with graphs and metrics calculated in real time to show the specific carbon emission impact of changing the percentage of time spent working remotely.

As shown in the below process, this PoC was achieved using various 麻豆原创 solutions, including 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform.

In Summary

Executives can make better decisions about the impact of employees going back to the office and how often, considering the social and actual carbon emissions from commutes in their people planning. Using 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions for employee information to geocode the distance of employees from the office and utilizing to layer experience insights to determine preferences, they can analyze carbon emissions for different types of commutes and make data-driven decisions to fuel their sustainability initiatives.

As shown in the below figure, executives can even look at this data by employee gender, race, and age. This helps them better assess, for instance, how many employees have strong preferences and who would become a flight risk should the business choose to mandate regular employee in-office attendance.

Finally, the figure below shows the simple what-if scenario to demonstrate how quickly and effectively analytics interfaces can be built, in this case, incorporating a slider bar and immediate impact of the change for the pre-filtered employees.

This kind of sustainability data and analysis empowers executives to find the 鈥渟weet spot鈥� in decisions that balance their preferences against employee preferences and align them to important goals such as reducing their carbon footprint.

Suddenly, what鈥檚 best for all becomes quite clear.

Learn more at .

Tammie Eldridge is part of Solution Marketing at 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors.

The company was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from听Unilever and its mission is to deliver plant products for healthier lives and happier people for a better planet.

鈥淯pfield is a quite new company that operates in a very dynamic market environment sensitive to social integrators and economic indicators,鈥� said Anand Mathew, platform lead, Supply Chain Applications at Upfield. 鈥淚n terms of planning and logistics, key objectives are to ensure a high service level. Moreover, we aim to reduce product cost while ensuring minimal obsolescence as customer demands are ever changing.鈥�

Upfield set specific targets along its supply chain. 鈥淔or example, as plant-based is part of our formulations and product development, we must be sure to move towards a 100% natural formulation. Not meeting this goal in particular markets can impact us with negative publicity around packaging or product quality. Also, recent disruptions due to COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine 鈥� the biggest producer for sunflower oil, which is a key product ingredient 鈥� forced us to change and update formulations very quickly and pass that information on to manufacturing, transportation, and our customers,鈥� Mathew explained.

鈥淥ther requirements related to sustainability are to be plastic free for our packages or disclose our methane footprint, including the CO2 product footprint. All this deeply implicated our IT systems and how we run our supply chain. It must be reflected in our product development, manufacturing, and distribution, and ultimately be reported,鈥� the executive added.

The Need for Integrated Solutions along the Supply Chain

The IT solutions portfolio taken over from Unilever didn鈥檛 meet Upfield鈥檚 needs to align objectives along the entire supply chain and had to be updated to ensure the highest level of integration.

鈥淭o achieve our product strategy goals, we have been fostering integration of disparate systems with as the backbone. This integration allowed us to be where we are now,鈥� Mathew said. 鈥淔or instance, we manage around 4,000 specifications for ingredients and up to 2,500 recipes with 麻豆原创 Product Lifecycle Management.鈥�

For supply chain planning, Upfield is using for demand, response, supply, and sales and operations planning (S&OP). Mathew explained: 鈥淭wo hundred of our business users use 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning in 95 countries. The regions have slight variations in managing the solution, but all countries are using demand planning so that we get our S&OP numbers entirely through 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning.鈥�

The executive added: 鈥淲e are looking to use machine learning-based statistical forecasting via capabilities that the latest 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning version provides. Then we can build Python scripts into our end-to-end planning process. For the future, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower will be another important 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning component in our strategy as it enables exception-based planning, and we also evaluated demand-driven materials resource planning (DDMRP).鈥�

鈥淪ourcing is done via 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions to identify appropriate suppliers, also for plastic-free materials. New targets are constantly impacting which suppliers to work with or what criteria to meet when working with a new supplier,鈥� he said. 鈥淲ithin the 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions, we use sourcing, supplier selection and supply selection criteria, and contract management, completing contracts via DocuSign before handing off to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA or the supply chain for execution. We use it for direct procurement for our products and indirect procurement,鈥� Mathew remarked.

For its logistics processes, Upfield is leveraging 麻豆原创 Transportation Management and . Ocean movements are managed via 麻豆原创 Transportation Management and land movements with both.

鈥淲e use for calculating transportation movements, planning shipments, and route optimization. Resulting freight orders are passed on to the carrier. Settlements are then done within 麻豆原创 Business Network for Logistics. There, our carriers can either log directly into the carrier tenant to accept or reject preorder or use the booking functionality to specify preorder execution,鈥� Mathew explained. 鈥淭he network supports fixing settlements after freight order execution. Overall, 麻豆原创 Business Network for Logistics provides better communication with our carriers.鈥�

Achieving Higher Agility and Resilience

Upfield is also tracking the life cycle of each product until its retirement. 鈥淎t each stage, every system has to be aligned to avoid the risk of obsolescence, and we have been able to reduce cost with help from 麻豆原创 solutions,鈥� Mathew said. 鈥溌槎乖� S/4HANA and supply chain solutions helped us be more agile. The main advantage is the integrated planning capability we have across our supply chain. Thanks to native integration or interfaces we built across different tools, we are able to react much faster to any kind of disruption. It鈥檚 all about agility.鈥�

With 麻豆原创鈥檚 synchronized planning approach, production schedules can be updated quickly, helping to ensure the right ingredients are in place at the right time.

Future Plans to Foster Even More Integration

End consumers benefit from Upfield鈥檚 ambitions enabled by this holistic approach with higher quality plant-based products as well as unified messaging and branding.

鈥淥ur vision is to have end-to-end integrated planning, from supply chain planning to execution, including finance. We chose 麻豆原创 because of the completeness of its vision,鈥� Mathew concluded.

Discover how planning can be the cornerstone of a sustainable supply chain and make sure you check out the planning and sourcing report, 鈥�.鈥�

Karin Fent is senior director of Global Customer Success for Digital Supply Chain at 麻豆原创.

As ESG expectations from stakeholders continue to grow, our customers expect us to help them transition successfully to sustainable business models. While many organizations are already reporting on ESG aspects, a new data foundation is needed to cope with several challenges.

All organizations need help with data quality and availability. Companies need easy access to data in their enterprise applications and complement these data sets with information that often exists in spreadsheets or disconnected tools. That integration must be done more frequently and in a more automated way. Finally, the resulting data foundation must be audit-ready on all levels.

麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower provides this foundation. It offers critical functionalities aligned to what customers need. It is a software-as-a-service experience that allows customers to embed sustainability into their business processes with current data and insights and achieve automated, auditable, and compliant reporting.

麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower helps them record. Companies want to measure and manage ESG transparency along the value chain. Often, this data spans multiple sources, formats, and organizations without providing the right granular level of detail and precision. Plus, many organizations are eager for their transition to move from averages to actuals to help them bring supply chain partners forward on their joint sustainability missions.

The solution offers 37 sustainability metrics on pre-built data models supporting established reporting frameworks such as the Global Reporting Initiative, World Economic Forum, and Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TFCD), as well as extensible data models based on 麻豆原创 and third-party structured and unstructured data. It enables harmonized insights by consolidating, modeling, and enriching ESG, financial, and operational data that is automatically connected with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA to inform boardroom and business-level decisions.

The open architecture of 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower enables customers to grow their coverage of ESG in an incremental and agile way. The solution offers regular, gradual, and automated innovation updates through application lifecycle management. It supports extensibility to the data model and a proven calculation and process engine to provide additional flexibility. In addition, it enables a turnkey integration with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA and additional integration option based on open APIs.

is an additional option, simplifying the integration with third-party data sources and . We deliver dedicated integration content in 麻豆原创 Data Warehouse Cloud for usage with 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower.

The solution also enables customers to deal with new and increasing ESG reporting requirements in a dynamic global landscape. Our customers must often report against multiple frameworks and standards with built-in quality, audit, and assurance measures. Mature companies are already moving from limited to reasonable assurance on their ESG numbers. 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower comes with analytical views and capabilities.

Customers can also use on top to gain deeper insights into their ESG scores to make intelligent investment decisions for sustainability programs and diversity spending. They can simulate outcomes and evaluate sustainability initiatives using what-if analysis and scenario planning. And they will be able to integrate sustainability, financial, and operational planning on one enterprise planning foundation.

Finally, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower helps customers act. Executing sustainability targets is possible only when it is embedded across all business processes. Companies need accurate, actionable data so they can identify and mitigate risks in a timely way. They can also uncover new business opportunities by getting visibility across their ESG data.

Planned New Features and Functionalities of 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower

Later in 2022, we plan to release new features to help customers report across disclosures, starting with the EU taxonomy for sustainable initiatives and TCFD reporting. These features will focus on a high degree of flexibility, pre-integration, and rigor of financial closing. Our approach will start with top-down analysis, evolving to bottom-up calculation. We have already demonstrated a methodology for implementing the EU taxonomy with Deutsche Post DHL group, as highlighted at 麻豆原创鈥檚 German-Speaking 麻豆原创 User Group (DSAG) event in September 2022.

A greenhouse gas (GHG) analytical application as part of 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower will give users a detailed understanding of their emissions following the GHG Protocol鈥檚 reporting principles. The application will provide filters based on existing organizational structures and integration with business data such as revenue and other financial data to help customers calculate and analyze carbon intensity.

For more information on how 麻豆原创 helps companies record, report, and act on their sustainability goals, visit .

Gunther Rothermel is head of Sustainability Engineering at 麻豆原创 SE.

Many companies are responding to rapidly increasing regulation in this area and have set ambitious ESG targets. Sustainable business is no longer a question of if or why, but how.

ESG Management Relies on Data Transparency

Current ESG management relies heavily on data averages and estimates. Most companies have not fully integrated their ESG data recording and control into their core financial, procurement, supply chain management, and human resources (HR) systems. This financial and non-financial data is disconnected, stored in spreadsheets, not updated from real-time systems, and not easily shared within the company or with partners such as upstream suppliers or downstream logistics providers.

Considering that on average 90% of a business鈥檚 carbon footprint lies within its supply chain, the inability to track, manage, and gain insights from live data and embed it into core business processes can cripple even the best intentioned ESG efforts. Worse, it can mislead investors, create compliance issues, and misguide transformation efforts. Unifying ESG data provides significant gains in capabilities and competitive performance.

Companies cannot make sustainable business decisions using data they do not have or cannot use.

ESG Data Moves from Averages to Actuals

That is why we developed , which we introduced in January this year. In a market update available now, the solution offers what companies are looking for today to run more sustainably.

First, companies want to record ESG factors based on actual data, not averages. 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower easily imports cross-enterprise data from 麻豆原创 systems like 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management, and 麻豆原创 Environment, Health, and Safety. It also integrates with non-麻豆原创 systems using a range of APIs to create audit-ready data. Businesses can integrate and analyze granular ESG data using the established structures from their finance, HR, and operations teams using templated data models and calculations.

Second, companies want to report to existing and future standards. 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower effectively shares and organizes ESG data from across the company. With complete and integrated ESG data, companies can more accurately and readily report their performance to various reporting requirements and frameworks, such as GRI, WEF, TCFD, the EU Taxonomy, and upcoming U.S. SEC requirements. Through APIs, customers can further extend the functionality by bringing in their own metrics as well as industry and regulatory content, and use other applications.

And third, companies want to act by planning with actionable insights, forecasts, and concrete targets to achieve measurable impacts. With 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, companies can set targets, gain actionable insights into core processes, forecast outcomes, analyze scenarios and trade-offs, report progress, and create role-specific actions to improve sustainability performance.

For example, our customer Grupo Energia de Bogota (GEB) aims to transform the way it manages and reports ESG performance.

鈥淕rupo Energ铆a Bogota S.A. (GEB), an energy platform group of companies in Latin America with over 125 years of operations in the transmission, generation, and distribution of electric energy as well as the transportation and distribution of natural gas across Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and Guatemala, has chosen 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower powered by RISE with 麻豆原创, 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, and 麻豆原创 Signavio solutions to manage our sustainability strategy as part of our enterprise transformation goals,” said Jose Fernando Galvis Panqueva, CIO, Grupo de Energia de Bogota. “With this powerful combination of cloud solutions, our company will manage its overall holistic reporting requirements, including ESG KPIs; reduce time and effort in manual data collection and reporting variation with different regulatory requirements and timelines; standardize processes for subsidiaries; and manage and integrate existing 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 data.”

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Sustainable Business Means Working Together

Built on , 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower provides a flexible, extensible technology architecture that can help create complementary solutions or add custom content. Businesses operating in different regions or industries will have different needs, so this level of flexibility is essential. 麻豆原创 has the broadest range of global partners to help companies develop specifications and implement customized sustainability solutions.

Sustainable business is a goal we will achieve only by working together. It is a collaboration and innovation process for all of us, including 麻豆原创. We鈥檙e implementing 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower in our own business to enhance our holistic business management, create insights on the total economic, social, and environmental impact our organization has across a range of measures, and accelerate programs such as our net-zero emissions by 2030 implementation.

Transforming a business to run sustainably is a long-term process, but one with urgency. We are seeing customers join us at different stages of their sustainable business transformations. They are pragmatic and recognize that the transition to sustainability is a 鈥渕arathon with no finish line.鈥� Some are looking to quickly regain compliance with rapidly changing regulations, while others want to optimize their ESG data management and performance. In nearly every case, these are multi-year digital transformations to become intelligent, sustainable enterprises.

Since most of the world鈥檚 Fortune 2,000 companies run 麻豆原创 software and almost 90% of the worlds finance and goods flows touch 麻豆原创 systems, much of the data needed for holistic corporate sustainability management lives in 麻豆原创 systems for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and related applications. Harnessing this data is essential to creating and managing a 鈥済reen line鈥� with the same rigor as their top and bottom lines.

麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower is vital to creating this holistic capability. It offers a flexible open architecture, powerful integration and scalability, and support from a broad range of partners. The solution works in tandem with the sustainability solutions within , which add additional functionalities including carbon emissions management, waste and materials management for circularity, and people sustainability.

For more information on how 麻豆原创 helps companies record, report, and act on their sustainability goals, visit鈥�.

Sebastian Steinhaeuser is chief strategy officer at 麻豆原创.

础苍鈥�痵howed that nearly 70% of CEOs find it challenging to measure ESG data across their value chains. This measurement is difficult because data is often managed manually or separately from enterprise planning and management software. Many businesses rely on estimated data, preventing holistic strategic planning and operational decision-making. With this lack of data transparency, it is no surprise that companies are struggling to embed sustainability into their operations.

麻豆原创 and its鈥�痑lso know businesses demand fast, reliable, and compliant regulatory reporting. As a pioneer in implementing integrated sustainability and ESG practices in our own business, 麻豆原创 has developed innovative solutions and established a wide range of partnerships to help customers build trust and transparency in their ESG reporting.

Responding to Urgent Customer Needs

Earlier this year, 麻豆原创 introduced , an enterprise-wide ESG data management solution that allows companies to record, report, and act on their ESG data. In a market update available now, the solution offers flexibility and scalability so that a business can easily connect finance, emissions, production, supply chain, human resources (HR), and other data sources to sustainability metrics.

Accurate live data allows companies to move from averages to actuals to report their performance, complying confidently with reporting frameworks and standards. With accurate, transparent, and advanced analytics reporting, companies can identify areas for action, simulate scenarios, and hit their sustainability goals in order to minimize waste, reduce carbon emissions, and improve sustainable supply chain performance.

With urgency and data quality in mind, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower offers ready integration with cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) software from 麻豆原创, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, to provide a holistic steering and reporting solution. This scalable, integrated data management and reporting platform, combined with partner services for customer-specific data requirements, offers a new level of business insight for executive-level decision-making to help businesses reach their sustainability goals.

Working Together for Sustainable Business听

At 麻豆原创, we believe collaboration is essential for sustainable business success, which is why we have built an ecosystem of鈥�痶o provide their expertise, methodologies, and reporting frameworks to help our customers achieve holistic sustainability transformation.

Sustainability is a core shared goal for 麻豆原创 and our partner ecosystem. Key dimensions of corporate ESG management — including holistic steering and reporting, carbon accounting, waste management and design for circular economy processes, and responsible and inclusive value chain management — are integral elements of our sustainable business vision.

Our strategic partners offer sustainability consulting, and their analytics and data management teams have the expertise and experience to connect and integrate data sources and metrics. This gives customers a comprehensive view to help them transition from strategy to action in setting and managing sustainability initiatives, internal data management, and external disclosures to various frameworks and regulations.

Additionally, by leveraging鈥��(麻豆原创 BTP), our more than 23,000 partners can develop a wide range of complementary solutions for鈥�, addressing specific innovation opportunities like industry cloud, content partnerships, or pre-configured packages for regulatory and reporting requirements.

Our deep understanding of global business data and processes, along with our constant drive to deliver customer value combined with an unmatched global partner ecosystem, gives us the unique leverage to make a positive impact at scale. Read on for comments from leaders of some of our global strategic partners and how they work with 麻豆原创 to deliver positive sustainability impact for our mutual customers.

Accenture听

鈥淔or companies today, having auditable, decision-ready ESG data isn鈥檛 about compliance, it鈥檚 about competitiveness. It is about transforming organizations from top to bottom to drive business value and sustainability impact. That is why 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower is so important: it allows organizations to embed sustainability into their strategy and core digital processes.鈥�

– Peter Lacy, global sustainability services lead
and chief responsibility officer, Accenture

Atos听

鈥淎t Atos we are committed to climate action: we are constantly working to reduce our own carbon footprint, and we aim to be net zero by 2039. Rated Platinum by EcoVadis since 2020, we work with 麻豆原创 as a valued partner to help our customers reduce their own emissions on their journey to net zero through our end-to-end sustainability portfolio, including consulting and advisory solutions from EcoAct, an Atos company, as well as comprehensive digital solutions. This enables Atos to accelerate the transition to net zero by leveraging solutions such as 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, enabling consistent and auditable ESG reporting, target setting, and monitoring.鈥�

– Diane Galbe, senior executive vice president,
Board CSR sponsor and chairman of EcoAct

Capgemini听

鈥淚n addition to reducing its own carbon footprint, Capgemini aims to help its clients save at least 10 million tons of CO2 equivalent by 2030. Capgemini鈥檚 ‘Green Core with 麻豆原创 Solutions’ offer unlocks sustainability data from the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA core system to track environmental data, social statistics, and other ESG KPIs across the value chain. It is a perfect example of our sustainable vision brought to life for supply chain-heavy industries, such as manufacturing, automotive, consumer products, and retail. Implementing 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower will augment analytics and dashboards that provide actionable, client-specific sustainability insights, tailored to customized industry needs and designed to match outcomes with enterprise-defined sustainability ambitions. 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower will help us deliver on our promise to co-create a more sustainable tomorrow with our clients globally.”

– Benjamin Alleau, executive vice president; group lead,
Sustainability Business Services; and group offer leader, Sustainability, Capgemini

Cognizant听

鈥淭he call for sustainable action grows louder from the investor community and the consumer at large. Enterprises have massive environmental footprints and will require a comprehensive understanding of how material flows through the production process, into the market, and into their end-of-life. Any meaningful approach to reducing environmental impact will require implementation of circular product models, sustainable supplier development, and design of carbon-reduced logistics models. Currently, supply chain visibility tools rarely provide comprehensive sustainability information for assessing viability or risks in the supply chain. 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower is critical to provide make/buy/move decisions, which favor sustainable outcomes with a sound commercial basis.鈥�

– Manoj Mathew, vice president,
Sustainability, Cognizant

Deloitte听

鈥淏uilding on Deloitte and 麻豆原创’s decades-long global alliance, new products like 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower provide the platform for innovation and development of solutions to address our clients’ complex sustainability challenges. As an extension of our Sustainability Operations collaboration and innovation with 麻豆原创, we are proud to deliver next-generation business capabilities and insights, developed with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, to support enterprise-wide transformation across a wide range of industries.鈥�

– Joe Lucca, managing director, U.S. 麻豆原创
Sustainability, Climate, and Equity lead, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Ernst & Young (EY)听

鈥淪ustainability is the most pressing issue of our time, representing serious and urgent challenges for our planet that everyone — business, government, society, and individuals — must help to solve. Together, EY and 麻豆原创 are helping to create meaningful change for clients and communities by building solutions to help meet carbon, circularity, operational ESG, and socioeconomic equity goals. Solutions like 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower enable organizations to set targets, monitor progress, capture, and report ESG data, providing actionable insights to help drive positive change.鈥�

– Marsha Reppy, EY Americas Sustainability Technology leader, EY

IBM听

鈥淪ustainability is at the heart of IBM鈥檚 strategy as we invest in the future of the planet. Today, we have solutions powered by 麻豆原创 and IBM technologies that operationalize sustainability into everything our customers do. These solutions help manufacturing companies build products that capture the carbon footprint and drive shop-floor operations that do not just reduce emissions, but also natural resource usage. We also provide solutions that support companies in driving ethical sourcing in the supply chain, as well as selling products that align to the buying behaviors of today鈥檚 ever-increasing ethical consumer. We are excited to see the next revision of 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower. This is a foundational solution in our sustainability solution portfolio. We recognized the need for its evolution, and we see this now as a truly enterprise-class offering, integrating data from 麻豆原创 and external sources to enable the necessary capabilities for ESG data management and reporting.鈥�

– Allan Coulter, distinguished engineer and global
CTO for FSCT, 麻豆原创 & Sustainability, IBM

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)听

鈥淧wC is working with 麻豆原创 to provide transparent and auditable data leveraging the deep industry, accounting and ESG expertise of PwC coupled with 麻豆原创’s leading technology. This cooperation is focused on helping organizations report ESG performance with trust to a growing number of stakeholders; driving optimized decarbonization pathways and supply chain resilience through advanced analytics; and driving top-line growth using sustainability. Leveraging 麻豆原创 S/4HANA as a foundation, we aim to help our joint customers achieve their sustainability ambitions and initiatives through the creation of industry-relevant extensions built on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, such as our award-winning Climate Excellence solution, and leveraging 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower to provide the real-time insights and visibility to drive ESG performance.鈥�

– Gunther Duetsch, partner, PwC Germany

TCS听

鈥淎t TATA, we believe that businesses exist to serve communities. This belief has guided our commitment to create a positive impact and respond to the changing needs of the communities we serve. At TCS, we believe innovation and adoption of digital technologies are key to building a sustainable future. The growing imperative to understand how to harness disparate streams of data to effectively create an impactful ESG strategy is a core driver of our approach for creating innovative industry-driven sustainability solutions. TCS works closely with 麻豆原创, leveraging contextual knowledge, domain expertise, technology, and innovations to help some of the world鈥檚 leading enterprises address their sustainability challenges. With over 200 sustainability-related solutions and offerings in our portfolio, we are committed to empowering enterprises to create a positive impact and respond to the changing needs of the communities they serve.鈥�

– Prashant Shirgur, global head of
Enterprise Application Services, TCS

T-Systems听

鈥淎t T-Systems, we ‘Rethink the System’ to provide innovative integrated solutions such as 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower. Through the solution, we can enable our customers to successfully drive digital growth while investing in more sustainable supply chains.鈥�

– Christian Till Roga, managing director, T-Systems International

Wipro

鈥淲hen it comes to ESG reporting, immutability and transparency of data are the most critical first steps for any business. The 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower solution offers a greater degree of granularity in reporting and a higher level of transparency around ESG performance. Core ERP processes of procurement and manufacturing, environment management and compliance, and talent building and succession have sustainability, circularity, and social responsibility now embedded into the solution as its key pillars. Enhanced integration of critical 麻豆原创 S/4HANA and other 麻豆原创 line of business solutions with 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower supports a customer鈥檚 ESG reporting with validated, auditable, and real-time data. Given the seamless integration of 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, it can be positioned as an essential plug-and-play solution offering for all customers that want to be a sustainable enterprise.鈥�

– Srinivas Sai Nidadhavolu, VP and global head, 麻豆原创 Practice, Wipro

For more information on how 麻豆原创 helps companies record, report, and act on their sustainability goals, visit鈥�.

Bernd Schmalzridt manages Business Development of Global Sustainability Ecosystem at 麻豆原创.
Estelle Lagorce is part of Strategic Ecosystem Marketing at 麻豆原创.

With the right platform, enterprises can transform data into business value and drive more intelligent decision-making. Combined with the ability to easily integrate and extend applications, enterprises can develop new products, processes, and business models more quickly than ever. can provide that strong, yet flexible, foundation for 麻豆原创 customers.

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麻豆原创 BTP in a Nutshell

麻豆原创 BTP is a cloud platform that is available and scalable in every region worldwide. It includes on-premise and cloud-native technologies and services and integrates four technology portfolios into one unified environment hosted and managed by 麻豆原创. These include:

• Application development and integration (麻豆原创 Extension Suite and 麻豆原创 Integration Suite)
• Data management (麻豆原创 HANA Cloud and 麻豆原创 Data Intelligence)
• Analytics (麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud solution for business intelligence and 麻豆原创 Data Warehouse Cloud)
• Solutions for intelligent technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) or robotic process automation (RPA)

麻豆原创 BTP offers what customers and partners need to develop new solutions and connect existing ones. “It’s basically what makes 麻豆原创 applications work,” says JG Chirapurath, chief marketing and solutions officer for Platform and Technology at 麻豆原创.

What Makes 麻豆原创 BTP Different from Other Cloud Platforms?

麻豆原创 BTP is fully optimized for 麻豆原创 applications. It helps customers, partners, and internal development teams store and manage their data and gain valuable insights. In addition, applications can be created, extended, or integrated, and entire business processes can be optimized and automated.

The solutions provided take into account specific circumstances of different industries as well as local regulations. Unlike other cloud platforms, 麻豆原创 BTP can add context to the data that is processed in business processes. This enables complete, real-time insights into the respective business contexts.

However, it doesn’t stop at business processes alone. All functions are natively integrated into the 麻豆原创 software stack. This enables customers and partners to optimize the interaction of services and technologies. The leaner and simplified processes allow an accelerated innovation capability. With the help of preconfigured, industry-specific content, new solutions can be implemented and developed in much less time, which can significantly reduce costs. Many customers are looking to extend their solutions and add new functionality. Chirapurath emphasizes that low-code and no-code development tools are often desired for this purpose.

“You want to look at 麻豆原创 BTP as the engine that enables those connections, enables you to understand how data flows, enables you to understand what is exactly happening inside your organization,” Chirapurath explains. 麻豆原创 BTP can run in either a public or private cloud, providing the flexibility needed to extend the platform capabilities outside the “麻豆原创 world,” or on major hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Royal Greenland Shows How 麻豆原创 BTP Supports Sustainability Goals

Today’s customers have changed needs and expectations. They demand individualized offers, want personalized experiences, and pay attention to sustainable and ethical business practices. To meet this change, companies need to transform their businesses digitally.

This is the case for Royal Greenland, a global leader in the market for seafood products that strives for a sustainable business model. Due to concerns about overfishing in the oceans, many consumers today want to know that seafood comes from responsible sources. The company’s goal is to ensure the health of the local ecosystem for fishery products while also prioritizing the prosperity of fishing communities.

Based on 麻豆原创 BTP, Royal Greenland has developed three applications to streamline procurement processes for fishermen and support the company’s sustainability goals. The platform helps the company capture all data, including the location, quantity, and type of fish caught. This information is then fed into Royal Greenland鈥檚 enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain system. With the help of analytics tools, managers now can get full visibility into fishing practices while ensuring that all fishermen are paid correctly.

In the interview, Chirapurath talks about other examples where 麻豆原创 BTP is in use and making a difference. Among them is the 麻豆原创-sponsored esports team Team Liquid, which uses 麻豆原创 data and analytics solutions to make split-second decisions in the game. He also talks about the solution, which helps companies monitor and manage financial and sustainability and governance metrics.

麻豆原创 Business Journeys for two key sustainability solutions can help.

With the business journeys for 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower and 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management, your business can stay ahead of customer demand, stakeholder expectations, and regulatory changes related to sustainability.

Start Tracking and Reporting Key Sustainability Metrics Fast

麻豆原创 Business Journeys are offerings designed to help your business with the planning, implementation, execution, and enablement of 麻豆原创 solutions. With 麻豆原创 Business Journeys, you can begin to smooth the path to sustainability by getting started with these solutions 鈥� and overcoming your greatest sustainability challenges 鈥� faster. They empower you to move forward toward a sustainable business with the confidence you need to achieve your goals on 麻豆原创 solutions.

provides the tools to help measure and track the footprints of your products. Use it to perform as-needed, automated, or scheduled calculations of emissions. The business journey for 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management helps you prepare for solution adoption so you can quickly begin to reduce your carbon footprint.

Take, for instance, a fast-growing bakery with nationwide distribution. A recent change in legislation means this business must now report the carbon emissions of its products. And if you think cake can鈥檛 have a complicated carbon footprint, think again. This bakery has to track and report emissions related to its raw ingredients, such as cacao beans and flour, as well as the energy it takes to bake the cake and transport the packaged finished product to retail locations for sale.

For this bakery, 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management helps reveal where emissions are too high and how the business can reduce them. The business journey can prepare this business 鈥� and yours 鈥� for a smoother implementation and fast ROI.

Reveal Insight into Sustainability across the Enterprise

empowers you with transparency based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indicators gathered from dependable data. That means you can gain key sustainability insights, monitor your progress, and set targets to help improve your business performance. It鈥檚 helping businesses worldwide transform how they measure their sustainability KPIs 鈥� and then use those insights to create better, greener outcomes.

That bakery business could use 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower to report a large variety of sustainability metrics to regulators, partners, stakeholders, and even customers. For instance, if this bakery wanted to expand into a new country, it would need to follow that country鈥檚 sustainability standards and regulations. The solution can help report the necessary metrics to send to the right regulators. Or, if it wanted to target more sustainability-minded consumers, it could use its emissions metrics to help fuel a marketing campaign with sustainability metrics at the center of its message. The solution can help with that, too.

In addition, the solution can help you create a yearly sustainability report as part of your annual report much faster and more automated. For this, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower provides tools that follow international standards so you can collect relevant data from multiple sources and report your sustainability KPIs quickly.

The business journey for 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower can enable this business and yours to reduce the time it takes to reveal key sustainability metrics not only by helping implement the solution faster, but also by supporting effective user adoption and enablement.

Get Started with Sustainability Solutions Faster Than Ever

With business journeys for 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management and 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, you can break down barriers to sustainable operations and take control of your carbon emissions and other sustainability-related metrics. With the business journeys, your business can take advantage of:

• Expert insight to identify the most effective route to sustainable digital transformation
• Workshops to assess current and future requirements, targets, and strategies
• Expert advice and actionable steps to improve change management and help boost user adoption

麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower and 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management are representative of 麻豆原创鈥檚 dedication to sustainability. As sustainability takes center stage for your business, 麻豆原创 continues to design innovative solutions to fulfill your unique needs.

To learn more about business journeys for sustainability services from 麻豆原创, .

Holger Wittwer is sustainability design lead for Cloud Success Services at 麻豆原创.

Capgemini and 麻豆原创 will provide cloud products and services to support sustainability transformation in strategy, technology, and business model change. The initiative will enable companies to better manage their suppliers and supply chains in pursuit of their sustainability goals.

“Sustainability is at the heart of the automotive industry and has to be the foundation of every decision. At the same time, it is essential to clearly understand the customer’s perspective and integrate feedback to ensure success in the digital age,” said Hagen Heubach, global vice president and head of the Automotive Industry Business Unit at 麻豆原创. “We are combining the strengths of 麻豆原创 and Capgemini to provide our customers with expanded capabilities to define and implement their sustainability strategies.”

Josean Mendez, global 麻豆原创 alliance lead at Capgemini, adds:鈥�淲e are proud to be working with 麻豆原创 on this sustainability initiative to jointly deliver automotive offerings leveraging RISE with 麻豆原创 transformation value to our clients.鈥疭trengthening our solutions and helping our clients with their sustainability agendas signals the positive impact we aspire to for all our customers.鈥�

Traditional original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers, as well as supplier organizations can drive their competitive advantage and value with the management processes and tools supported by the joint initiative. Specifically, this joint transformation framework can help automotive companies identify the business value of sustainability and inject sustainability management into products and services across their supply chains.

麻豆原创 and Capgemini offer market-leading solutions in four key areas of sustainability transformation to complement their innovation in the sustainability space:

• Net-zero strategies and business models identify transformation opportunities and drive transparency on sustainability objectives with the help of the 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower solution.
• Sustainable products and services create transparency about the carbon emissions of products throughout their life cycle, leveraging 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management and sharing emissions data through the industry value chain with the GreenToken by 麻豆原创 solution.
• Sustainable procurement and supply chains leverage 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning, 麻豆原创 Supply Chain Control Tower, and product carbon footprint data to help drive supply chain decisions with visibility across the network.
• Steering and reporting for impact helps ensure that the transformation focuses on business value, with actionable insights and improved environmental, social,
  and governance (ESG) reporting so that companies can comply with all regulatory and reporting requirements.

鈥淔acing significant industry disruption, traditional OEMs, EV manufacturers, and automotive suppliers must continually innovate with their products and services while at the same time constantly improve efficiency,鈥濃�痵aid Markus Winkler, executive vice president of Global Automotive at Capgemini.鈥�淭he joint initiative for automotive with 麻豆原创 helps our clients adapt to the changing requirements of today as well as plan for the future with a strong and comprehensive industry cloud solution addressing global sustainability.鈥�

Jim Davis is director of Automotive Industry Business Unit at 麻豆原创 America.

These metrics must be embedded within a company鈥檚 core operations and services; traditional annual reports are no longer sufficient. Stakeholders want to understand how a company addresses areas such as climate action, with transparency on transition and adaptation plans based on the carbon footprint of its operations. They also want to understand progress on circular economy objectives by monitoring the reuse and recycling of materials. They want to track and advance people sustainability initiatives by gathering key performance indicators (KPIs) in areas such as diversity and inclusion.

麻豆原创鈥檚 product innovations work across the enterprise to deliver on these goals.

Holistic Sustainability Management with 麻豆原创 Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises

To manage the green line, companies need business process technology to identify, quantify, analyze, and act on data through their end-to-end operations. To enable this, brings together a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to holistically manage sustainability performance. Embedding sustainable business data into processes and networks is one of the five actions business can take toward a sustainable future.

麻豆原创 Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises includes the and solutions. It also covers existing products like the application and the . The solution provides an overview of sustainability impacts and performance against green objectives.

We continue to extend the capabilities of 麻豆原创 Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises. As many companies are accelerating their action for decarbonization, our new capabilities in this area are important.

Driving Carbon Data Transparency Is More Important Than Ever

Accounting for carbon emissions across the organization and its supply chain is a foundational step toward climate action. Businesses are actively looking to reduce their carbon footprints, which requires addressing emissions outside company walls. These emissions 鈥� Scope 3 emissions 鈥� include everything from goods purchased to business travel to packaging and transportation of raw materials. Scope 3 emissions make up a significant portion of overall emissions for our customers. To derive actionable insights to reduce organizational carbon footprint, it is crucial to measure Scope 3 emissions both at a corporate level and at a product level.

are on average 11.4 times higher than operational emissions. To reduce these emissions, it is important to engage across the sectoral value chain, with both suppliers and end customers, especially for customer-facing sectors like retail and consumer product goods (CPG), which have long upstream value chains. Companies can address significantly larger emission volumes by driving deeper engagement throughout their supply chains.

Earlier this year, called on registrants to report on not just their Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions but also their Scope 3 emissions. This is not the first time companies have faced this request. Previously, asked companies to disclose the targets they used to assess and manage relevant climate-related risks and opportunities. IFRS takes this approach further with , which focus on transition planning, climate resilience, reporting on Scope 1-2-3 emissions, and disclosure of sustainability-related financial information as a part of its general purpose financial reporting.

Enabling 麻豆原创 Customers to Exchange Carbon Data across Value Chains

To develop and execute an effective decarbonization plan, companies need to receive and process high-quality product-level data on carbon emissions from suppliers and provide high-quality product footprint information to their customers.

However, with most supply chains spanning several industry sectors and consisting of multiple, heterogeneous networks and software components, taking a standardized approach to data sharing is critical. To collect meaningful emissions information, it is important that all parties use the same methodology and common standards for calculating and auditing the carbon footprint of a product.

Therefore, 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management implements an API specification developed as part of . 麻豆原创 customers can now take informed sourcing and product-development decisions, invest in targeted decarbonization activities, make more accurate disclosures, measure and track decarbonization progress, and adhere to legislative requirements around environmental transparency.

We intend to use 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management as part of 麻豆原创 networks 鈥� for example, in the Catena-X Automotive Network (Catena-X) 鈥� to enable a standard-based, secure, and cross-company-wide data exchange throughout the value chain.

In addition, there is the option to use the GreenToken by 麻豆原创 solution for multi-tier visibility across the networks. The combination of 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management, 麻豆原创 Responsible Design and Production, and GreenToken forms a potent decarbonization value proposition for industries such as consumer goods, as 麻豆原创 can demonstrably address material traceability, packaging waste, and supplier-specific carbon data transparency throughout the value chain for both recycled content and land-use change.

New functionality created through our co-development partnership with BearingPoint is already embedded into 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management and helps customers identify carbon reduction potential. Customers can thus determine the carbon footprint of a single product based on both direct and indirect emissions sources and upstream activities, building on existing functionality of carbon footprint measurement of purchased goods with tracking emissions resulting from transportation of those goods. Both these greenhouse gas (GHG) emission categories combined significantly contribute to a customer鈥檚 upstream and downstream environmental impact.

Integrating and Embedding Sustainable Data across the Intelligent Enterprise, Scaling Carbon Impact

Through open APIs, 麻豆原创 customers can easily exchange data with their enterprise applications, feeding it into 麻豆原创 Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises, and then provide the calculated sustainability data back into both 麻豆原创 and third-party applications.

With the newly introduced sustainability integration components for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, customers can benefit from preconfigured functionality enabling reuse of sustainability data across processes supported by 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, such as record-to-report, lead-to-cash, source-to-pay, and plan-to-fulfill workflows. The component allows a bidirectional flow of information between 麻豆原创 Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises and 麻豆原创 S/4HANA in real time.

Examples include:

• In 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement, customers can make sustainable purchase decisions based on a material鈥檚 carbon footprint displayed in purchase requisition, which is then is fed back into 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management, keeping sustainability reporting updated.
• In听麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning, the supply chain planner can access a comprehensive overview of GHG emissions based on the supply plan for the next 12 months. Planners can dive deeper into the details and try to resolve critical situations and alerts. .
• In 麻豆原创 Logistics Business Network, the material traceability option helps customers gain further insights into sustainability figures of products and share carbon footprint data on the batch level with suppliers, customers, and end consumers of the products. This feature is available with the 2021 release of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. .
• In plant maintenance, customers can receive automatic updates from 麻豆原创 Environment, Health, and Safety Management, triggering corrective action if GHG emissions are exceeded. .
• In 麻豆原创 Enterprise Product Development with 麻豆原创 Responsible Design and Production, customers will be able to reduce packaging and other material waste by design while simulating for a lower carbon footprint. Packaging is typically a significant source of Scope 3 carbon emissions in consumer goods value chains.

We continue to innovate and aim to help customers track emissions data from 鈥渃radle to gate鈥� 鈥� from the delivery of raw materials to the moment finished products leave the production line, offering intelligent technologies to calculate, exchange, and track carbon footprint information in a trusted way.

Achieving this carbon transparency will pave the way to becoming an intelligent, sustainable enterprise.

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Gunther Rothermel is head of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Sustainability Management at 麻豆原创.
Anita Varshney is global vice president of Strategy for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Sustainability at 麻豆原创.

One of the best examples of this wisdom is the race to tap the massive potential of digital transformation. According to , 41% of organizations need to invest in technology to close digital transformation gaps, while over half (55%) want to expand their use of technology to enhance products and services.* And in most cases, these efforts require a shift away from traditional on-premise applications and toward modern cloud technology.

To help ensure its customers can benefit from everything the cloud offers, 麻豆原创 reimagined, simplified, and sharpened its to focus heavily on adoption and experience. And that effort brought to life a suite of new options, including the 麻豆原创 Business Journeys portfolio.

A Reimagined Services and Support Portfolio and a New Era of Value Creation

Offering Value from the Start and for the Long Term

麻豆原创 Business Journeys provide a quick, clear path to help solve specific cross-company challenges with a carefully crafted set of services and support offerings. The portfolio is designed to make standardized business transformation scenarios easier to address and deliver expected results in a concise and consumable way.

麻豆原创 Business Journeys feature mandatory and selectable scope options, timelines, and outcomes predefined to help deliver your desired business outcomes.

By choosing the journeys relevant to your specific business objective or IT event, you can gain a simpler way to tackle every aspect of your business transformation, avoiding complexity and focusing on your strategic objectives.

Currently, you can leverage 麻豆原创 Business Journeys designed to address critical areas that help ensure a successful move to the cloud 鈥� with a steady stream of additional journeys planned throughout 2022.

1. Discovery business journey for RISE with 麻豆原创

This business journey provides quick answers to initial questions about cloud solutions from 麻豆原创 such as 麻豆原创 S/4HANA. Having this information immediately accessible allows you to validate the business case and plan and start the migration project.

You can create a transformation strategy and road map for the chosen 麻豆原创 solution, identify functional scope, and clarify related business value and potential innovations. Furthermore, 麻豆原创 guides you through the conceptualization of the business case and request for proposal, including an accurate projection of expected project efforts and timeline.

2. Hyperscaler transition business journey for RISE with 麻豆原创

If you already have a clear direction for your transformation, the first step is moving on-premise workloads into the cloud. Doing so helps ensure you have the digital capability to embrace new transformation opportunities with greater ease.

The hyperscaler transition business journey for the RISE with 麻豆原创 offering helps transition your legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system smoothly to the hyperscaler environment. 麻豆原创 plans the migration, transfers knowledge to operations, and migrates systems within scope. In addition, you can engage in strategic planning or optimize your data volumes to further accelerate and stabilize this and any future stage of your transformation.

3. Optimization business journey for RISE with 麻豆原创

Once your ERP system and data have transitioned to the cloud, the next milestone should be focused on the root cause of most unsuccessful transformation initiatives 鈥� an overly customized, complex IT landscape.

This business journey provides transparency and insights into business processes and your system’s preexisting custom code footprint. As a result, you can start planning, adapting, and extending applications to establish modern, back-to-standard business scenarios with increased speed, greater platform flexibility, and less risk.

4. Business journey for 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower

A common predictor of business transformation success is sustainability. research indicates that an emphasis on sustainable performance opens the door to competitive efficiencies, more streamlined compliance with increasing regulation, and the ability to adapt and thrive through new opportunities.

The business journey for the 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower solution enables you to achieve these advantages through ambitious sustainability objectives. For example, adopting the holistic, enterprise-wide 麻豆原创 Sustainability Performance Management analytic application can help set targets, monitor progress, and derive actionable insights from reliable sustainability data.

Driving Lasting Impact with Unmatched Expertise

With 麻豆原创 Business Journeys it is possible to navigate your business transformation with the confidence of knowing that your complex challenges will be resolved to seize a competitive edge and mitigate risks. More importantly, you’ll have continuous access to services and support that are consistently focused on delivering the results your business needs with speed, certainty, and control.

*鈥�,鈥� IDC, sponsored by 麻豆原创, 2021. Doc #US47409921.

Kurt Bauer is global senior vice president of Premium Engagements for Cloud Success Services at 麻豆原创.

With predefined scope, timeline and cost, this packaged set of offerings combines expertise and insight to address customers鈥� compelling business and technology events as they move to the cloud and the latest 麻豆原创 technology.

Complementing the recently reimagined cloud services and support portfolio, 麻豆原创 Business Journeys are designed to rapidly address different aspects of customers鈥� cross-business challenges 鈥� such as how to grow the business, make processes more sustainable or innovate to compete 鈥� delivered in a concise, consumable way.

鈥淢any of the current challenges customers face reach across multiple business units, processes and technical landscapes,鈥� said Kurt Bauer, Global SVP, Premium Engagements, Cloud Success Services, 麻豆原创. 鈥淪olving them can become quite complex. We created the journeys with the clear goal of offering a simple way to tackle complexity and to deliver outcomes critical to the strategy of our customers.鈥�

Each journey outlines the steps a business must take to gain tangible, measurable value from an 麻豆原创 software investment by achieving specific goals. 麻豆原创 Business Journeys are created for dedicated business events with appropriate timelines and efforts. A team of experts, including a journey lead from 麻豆原创, facilitates the execution between 麻豆原创 and the customers using a proven methodology and accelerators. The 麻豆原创 team orchestrates the entire process, from planning to execution and reporting. The team drives knowledge transfer and keeps customers informed every step of the way.

To start, 麻豆原创 has created four specific 麻豆原创 Business Journeys:

• Discovery business journey for RISE with 麻豆原创 helps customers prepare for the transition to the RISE with 麻豆原创 solution and identifies steps to help them make the move. Experts guide customers throughout the preparation and discovery phase of the journey.
• Hyperscaler transition business journey for RISE with 麻豆原创 helps customers transition to a hyperscaler infrastructure efficiently and with confidence. It covers the planning and execution phases of moving a system landscape to a hyperscaler or cloud environment running RISE with 麻豆原创.
• Optimization business journey for RISE with 麻豆原创 provides insights and transparency on the business processes and custom-code footprint of a system. The aim is to optimize the move to the cloud and help customers plan modern back-to-standard scenarios.
• Business journey for 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower drives sustainable business ambitions with 麻豆原创鈥檚 holistic enterprise-wide sustainability performance management. It helps set targets, monitor progress and gain actionable insights from dependable sustainability data.

During the coming year, 麻豆原创 plans to offer additional 麻豆原创 Business Journeys. If you would like to learn more, please visit our .

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Businesses and organizations need to act together, leveraging collective networks, influence, and expertise, in order to bring real transformation and generate positive outcomes.

麻豆原创 has become a partner in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation鈥檚 network to deliver circular economy solutions led by regenerative business with customers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and partners.

The partnership formalizes the organizations鈥� joint commitment to accelerating the transition to a circular economy based on three key principles: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials, and regenerate nature through innovative business models and systems-level change.

Andrew Morlet, CEO at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, said: 鈥淲e are pleased to welcome 麻豆原创 as a partner. Collaboration across all sectors and industries is critical in order to shift the system and accelerate the global transition to a circular economy 鈥� an economy designed to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials, and regenerate nature. Technology has a crucial enabling role to play, and we welcome 麻豆原创鈥檚 leadership in this space.鈥�

The partnership will focus on three key pillars:

• Powering circular design
• Actioning extended producer responsibility
• Enabling regenerative business via digital solutions

One of the key elements of a circular economy is design, including product design, policy design, and systems-level design. According to the Foundation, there are over 160 million designers in the world; connecting with them is crucial to solving the world鈥檚 waste problem. Technology will play a key role in enabling that, equipping them with insights and data to make better material choices, as well as creating better transparency around ecosystems.

With only nine percent of the 400 million tons of plastic produced every year , plastics is an issue where the urgent need to act is being recognized at the highest levels of global policy-making. United Nations (UN) member states to adopt a legally binding multilateral treaty on plastic pollution, the text of which explicitly underlines the importance of promoting the . executive director of the UN Environment Programme, the agreement is the “most important international multilateral environmental deal since [the] Paris [climate accord].”

Without collective and meaningful action, ocean plastic from 11 million tons in 2016 to 29 million tons in 2040, wreaking havoc on fragile marine ecosystems. This dire situation is a clarion call to act on extended producer responsibility (EPR), a policy framework that shifts financial responsibility from governments onto product producers for the management, treatment, and disposal of consumer products. This creates incentives for manufacturers to develop products that are more recyclable and less resource-intensive, in effect preventing waste at the source.

麻豆原创 has supported calls for EPR regulations, as have that recognize such approaches can create competitive markets for recycled plastics and create a level playing field for companies that rely on plastic products.

Technology is undoubtedly needed to make EPR actionable in business. The partnership will see 麻豆原创 bring its insights and innovation around digital solutions to enable the circular economy for a regenerative future, based on a non-extractive and replenishing principle, where businesses seek to give back more to society and the planet than what they take.

麻豆原创 launched its first major circular economy solution at COP26: , which provides the foundation for the company鈥檚 regenerative business mission and establishes a consistent measurement of material use globally. It helps companies gain better visibility of material flows through their business processes, manage EPR regulations worldwide, prepare for upcoming plastic taxes, and optimize material choices.

To further deliver transparency across the supply chain, climate solution enables businesses to calculate product footprints across the entire product life cycle, providing actionable insights into the environmental impact of their products at scale and allowing companies to move toward lower carbon emissions.

Holistic sustainability performance management solution enables companies to prioritize sustainable business results by providing insights for executive-level decision-making to manage and report financial and non-financial impacts of business processes.

Finally, 麻豆原创 has recently launched a new cloud offering to help companies holistically measure, manage, and optimize their sustainability performance: .

With more than 50 years of managing resources across enterprise functions, integrating data into business processes, and networking businesses and industries around the world, 麻豆原创 is uniquely positioned to build solutions to help companies run sustainably.

As Stephen Jamieson, global head of Circular Economy Solutions at 麻豆原创, puts it, 鈥淭his partnership is based on our mutual ambition to deliver a circular economy led by regenerative business. We aim to achieve this by working collaboratively to solve critical design challenges with innovative solutions, and focusing on extended producer responsibility, the single most important policy intervention that will deliver the level playing field that鈥檚 required for a circular economy. Together we鈥檙e committed to innovating and delivering the solutions that make that policy intervention simple, consumable, and actionable.鈥�