SAP has announced the availability of SAP Product Footprint Management, a solution that lets companies calculate carbon footprints for their products and across the value chain. It considers the entire product life cycle, helping companies disclose their products’ environmental footprints to regulators and enabling them to make their products more sustainable.
SAP Product Footprint Management is part of a new portfolio of sustainability-specific business applications that deliver transparency and measurement capability across the supply chain, allowing companies to move toward lower carbon emissions and more sustainable operations.
“Customers want it, the world needs it. There is no time to waste for businesses to act more responsibly and sustainably. Sustainability goals are increasingly as important to business success as financial goals,” said Thomas Saueressig, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE and responsible for SAP Product Engineering.
By integrating data across all solutions that govern production processes with master data from business applications such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Product Footprint Management can calculate the environmental impact of various production scenarios. For example, a cookie company can choose its source for chocolate based both on the cost of the raw material as well as on its carbon footprint.
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