A MAP TO SUSTAINABILITY EXCELLENCE

Sustainability is increasingly becoming a top priority on the CEO's agenda. Customers, employees, governments, and shareholders are all pressuring organizations to develop, communicate, and implement sustainability programs and strategies. But how do companies move from the maze of reporting frameworks and a plethora of information available from disparate sources to communicate their sustainability actions in a measurable, meaningful, and cost-effective way?

SAP's sustainability performance management solutions and dashboard software can help organizations define and communicate their sustainability objectives, appropriately manage risks, and report on sustainability - all while reducing the time spent collecting data.

As a result, you can help your company:

• Model and manage strategy and risks
• Merge financial and other sustainability data
• Provide transparency into sustainability progress
• Visualize and report for highest stakeholder impact
• Provide a foundation for taking action
• Reduce reporting costs

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New legislation and voluntary standards are continuously introduced to ensure companies are made accountable for how they are managing risks and opportunities regarding social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Openly communicating this accountability to stakeholders can help drive compliance and build support for the brand, but only if the stakeholders are confident that reported information is accurate. Any failure to accurately report compliance and sustainability performance can damage a company's reputation and brand value.

The SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management application and the SAP Carbon Impact on-demand solution provides assured reporting for regulatory and compliance requirements as well as voluntary information.

SAP can help provide your organization with a reliable foundation for assured reporting and compliance through:

• Transparent and auditable regulatory and voluntary reports
• Reporting against key performance indicators
• Support for audit and assurance

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Companies are currently challenged with using a plethora of sustainability data made available from various sources and visualizing it in a manner that can support informed decision making. Even when useful data is available, organizations often lack the tools necessary to easily transform it into insightful dashboards.

Xcelsius software helps transform complex company data into insightful visual representations. With its dashboard functionality, you can:

• Consolidate and compare internal and external data from multiple sources
• Provide robust visualization of insightful information and analytics
• Leverage what-if analysis to project potential sustainability performance
• Support decision making for a company or an industry-specific issue
• Enable decision makers to monitor sustainability performance

SAP Carbon Impact on-demand software also provides detailed visualizations of emissions data and enables executives to make insight-driven decisions on environmental initiatives.

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CEOs today are challenged with reporting their company's sustainability performance and executing strategies that will drive improved sustainability results. To close the gap between monitoring performance and executing strategy, organizations need to:

• Align sustainability improvement strategies with corporate goals and objectives
• Provide a management framework to execute sustainability initiatives
• Identify and fix areas of risk to achieve sustainability targets

SAP's sustainability performance management software provides companies with a management framework that can help improve nonfinancial performance. The software leverages processes and tools that have been developed via decades of experience in improving corporate performance.

By combining sustainability reporting capabilities with SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management and SAP BusinessObjects Risk Management, you can holistically manage your economic, environmental, and social risks and opportunities.

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Economies and companies do not operate in a vacuum; instead, they are tightly embedded into societies and the environment. To make sustainability tangible for the business, they must go beyond "being green" or philanthropic. They must focus on driving short- and long-term profitability, compliance, and brand protection through more sustainable and responsible business practices.

Companies must be able to analyze sustainability business practices, develop a strategy and related targets for how to improve them, and implement changes that have the biggest immediate positive financial impact.

SAP's sustainability performance management and dashboard software can help organizations drive better financial performance by holistically managing economic, social, and environmental risks and opportunities. Specifically, you can:

• Merge financial and other sustainability data
• Understand the ROI of sustainability strategies and initiatives
• Monitor and execute sustainability goals to achieve better financial performance

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In today's economic climate, sustainability initiatives have a compelling business case in terms of cost savings and energy consumption in every area of the business. To get started, companies need transparency into their energy usage and emissions, as well as the ability to benchmark usage and identify and execute on the optimal abatement levers for reduction.

Software and services from SAP and our partners can help you:

• Gain greater insight into your corporate energy usage and carbon footprint
• Forecast and budget energy costs effectively
• Model the impact of forecasted carbon emissions and analyze the trade-offs among the various abatement levers
• Identify areas of energy reduction during the production process or through asset maintenance
• Source the best energy supply mix
• Help consumers gain insight into their own electricity usage

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Companies, in general, own a lot of assets – whether it is electric motors, boilers in plants, coolants or chillers in facilities that are generally not tuned or maintained for optimal energy usage. Given such ample room for improvement, companies can save millions of dollars by addressing the energy-efficiency of their assets.

With the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence application, companies can:

• Achieve full, accurate visibility of energy consumption of all their assets at different levels of hierarchy
• Compare energy efficiency across plants and assets with normalized, comprehensive data
• Analyze trends of energy usage in comparison to historical patterns and forecasts
• Trigger alerts in case of unexpected deviations
• Assess the impact of energy costs based on consumption by time of day

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Until recently, many companies treated energy as a fixed cost of doing business. In light of fluctuating energy prices and increasing corporate focus on sustainability metrics, leading companies have realized significant savings with proactive energy management in their plants, commercial facilities, and transportation processes.

Software and services from SAP and our partners can help you:

• Gain greater insight into your aggregate corporate energy usage with detailed breakdowns across different facilities and processes
• Analyze trends and compare them to benchmarks
• Forecast and budget energy costs effectively in their respective units
• Model various abatement levers based on forecasted energy usage
• Source the best energy supply mix

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SAP Carbon Impact is an on-demand enterprise carbon management solution that can help organizations accurately measure, mitigate, and monetize carbon emissions and other environmental impacts. The solution enables businesses to identify cost-saving opportunities from energy and waste reduction, and to prepare for the effects of increased worldwide climate-change awareness and regulation.

The solution provides embedded best practices that can help organizations:

• Quickly establish a consolidated view of carbon emissions
• Streamline data gathering from suppliers
• Gain insight into carbon emission trends
• Optimize budgets to meet carbon reduction objectives
• Automatically generate reports for carbon and sustainability registries

The solution is delivered on demand, with no hardware requirements or software to install. Included with the subscription are updates to best-practices content, such as region-specific emission calculation methods, that can help organizations get started quickly and make a positive impact on their carbon footprint.

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Increasingly expen­sive fossil fuel reserves will be exhausted in the foreseeable future. When combined with the danger and cost of global warming and rising carbon dioxide levels, it's clear that increased energy efficiency is an absolute must.

Utilities are being held responsible for design­ing updated, cleaner technology for generating energy, transporting and distributing it to consum­ers, and automating the controls of its end devices.

Software and services from SAP and our partners can help utilities achieve maximum energy efficiency by providing their customers full transparency of their energy usage and costs and by effectively managing supply against changing demand.

With SAP solutions, you can:

• Increase customer benefit by providing greater choice and control to consumers
• Forecast and budget energy costs effectively
• Improve management between energy demand and supply
• Source the best energy supply mix
• Help consumers gain insight into their own electricity usage

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Product manufacturers face a variety of compliance, safety, and sustainability issues across the product life cycle – ranging from complying with material assessments for regulations including REACH and meeting hazardous material packaging and transportation requirements that keep employees and consumers safe to managing a product recall. By taking a strategic approach toward product safety and stewardship, companies can maximize efficiency and reduce business risk.

SAP solutions are built around an integrated and flexible platform for product compliance, material and product safety, recycling and reuse, recall management, environmental footprint, and sustainable design.

SAP can help your company achieve:

• Higher efficiency and confidence in all aspects of safety and compliance applicable to product materials or ingredients, labeling, manufacturing, distribution, and recycling
• Minimized risk, impact, and recovery time from adverse events to protect brand, customers, and relationships
• Effective insight to reduce carbon and water footprint of products, processes, or business activities

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Manufacturers face increasing compliance challenges including navigating painful material or ingredient assessments to react to new product-targeted environmental and safety regulations, such as RoHS, REACH or the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. Companies taking a strategic approach towards safer and greener products develop the knowledge, processes, and underlying compliance systems needed to maximize efficiency and reduce risk. They aim to avoid supply chain disruptions and write-offs due to insufficient visibility, while protecting revenue and brand. 

SAP's environment, health, and safety management application provides  a comprehensive and integrated product compliance platform for supply chain collaboration, material composition, data management, and compliance analysis and reporting.

With SAP, your company can achieve:

• Higher efficiency and confidence with automated collaboration and compliance analysis
• Increased supply chain visibility to avoid disruptions and write-offs
• Effective reporting for customers and regulatory agencies

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Manufacturers that produce or use chemicals and hazardous materials need to ensure safe transportation, storage, and use as directed by a wide variety of material and product safety regulations. Whether it is product-related hazard communication to keep employees safe, meeting packaging and transportation safety requirements, or ensuring purchasing controls, safety is a core and non-negotiable objective for any business to be sustainable.

SAP's environmental, health and safety management application supports legal, safety, and sustainability obligations along the supply chain, including classifying materials, globally managing product labeling, generating and automatically shipping material safety data sheets,  and undergoing safety checks of transportation packaging.

With SAP, your company can have:

• Confidence that products are labeled, handled, and shipped in a safe, compliant manner
• Improved safety due to enforced hazmat considerations during procurement
• Reduced risk of shipment delays from transportation safety hazards or labeling errors

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Manufacturers have always been required to take responsibility for recycling packaging and batteries, but new regulations – such as Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment – now extend to entire products. In addition, large retailers are requiring manufacturers to report detailed information, including recycled content ratios, packaging improvements, and carbon footprint. For many companies, the cost, time, and complexities needed to meet all requirements is a tremendous challenge. 

The SAP Recycling Administration application enables companies to create and manage a global platform for recycling administration and reporting. They can collect and maintain packaging master data, while combining it with sales and distribution information and recycling partner contract information to generate recycling declarations.

As a result, your company can have:

• Confidence that detailed packaging and recycling information and fees are correct and compliant
• Significantly increased efficiency through centralization and maximum compliance control
• Higher levels of accuracy in fee calculation

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Contaminated raw materials, defective components, design failures, or manufacturing defects can result in a public-relations nightmare due to a quality, health, or safety issue. Speed and thoroughness in your response can make the difference between surviving – and even  thriving – after a recall. Otherwise, you risk suffering permanent brand damage and market-share erosion.  Furthermore, companies must comply with increasing recall-related regulations such as the EU Food Law and ePedigree.

SAP solutions enable companies to track and trace goods in the supply chain and immediately respond to product issues. Companies can proactively detect problems, evaluate alternative responses, and execute the reverse logistic processes associated with recalls.

With SAP solutions you can have:

• Minimize risk, impact, and recovery time from adverse events to protect brand, customers, and relationships
• Enable fast and efficient recall management by quickly determining problem scope and solutions
• Enhance product competitiveness through authentication and integrity assurance

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Companies in brand-sensitive industries are increasingly spending time and effort to understand the environmental footprint of their products and services. Companies want to know how much carbon, water, and other environmental impact categories are associated with their products' full life cycle to identify improvement areas, support labeling initiatives, and meet increasing consumer and retailer expectations and mandated or voluntary reporting.

Using SAP solutions, companies can collect, measure, and analyze activities and environmental impact of internal and secondary sources at each stage as part of a life-cycle assessment (LCA) to derive a product environmental footprint.

As a result, your company can:

• Reduce the carbon and water footprint of products, processes, and business activities
• Identify inefficiencies and opportunities in source, development, build, and distribution cycles
• Efficiently manage current and future LCA requirements for reporting and labeling

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Leading companies realize that there is opportunity beyond just being compliant to market-leveling regulations. They have started to use green chemistry principles and so called "green screens" to optimize material and ingredient selections. They are improving energy performance, optimizing products and packaging for reuse, enabling efficient disassembly, and even investigating cradle-to-cradle design concepts.

While not mainstream yet, the knowledge gained in these projects will provide these companies a pole position for the new era of toxicity awareness, carbon restriction, and resource scarcity.

SAP is working with leading companies in these exciting new areas, leveraging their existing SAP software landscape with respect to materials management, product development, and supply chain collaboration.

As a result, your company can:

• Differentiate based on product material or ingredient safety
• Reduce resource volatility risk
• Support cradle-to-cradle design

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A sustainable supply network is the cornerstone of any corporate sustainability strategy. The creation of a sustainable supply network requires reevaluation of your company's supply chain – everything from purchasing, planning, and consuming materials and resources to shipping and distributing final products – with an emphasis on improving environmental and social performance.

SAP's supply chain management, manufacturing, and product life-cycle management solutions, as well as the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, can help organizations understand, prepare, and communicate their sustainability objectives.

As a result, companies like yours... can:

• Select suppliers that adhere to sustainability and social standards
• Track and trace products and their components, gaining full transparency into the history of your production
• Manage commodity exposure, and hedge resource supply risks
• Ensure energy-efficient manufacturing processes with optimized consumption of natural resources
• Optimize your supply network’s design and transportation processes

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While procurement organizations are focused on cost-cutting measures, the topic of sustainability continues to be a top priority. Procurement objectives include evaluating and selecting ethical suppliers, sourcing environmentally friendly products and packaging, and lessening the carbon footprint of transportation and logistics emissions.

To mitigate supplier risk, it is essential that procurement has full visibility into critical supplier information, such as certifications, supplier sub-tiers, and historical performance. When joined with sophisticated sourcing strategies and effective supplier management, sustainable goals can be achieved.

With SAP solutions and services, you can:

• Provide end-to-end support for the complete source-to-pay process
• Achieve consolidated visibility into spend and supplier data
• Enforce contract compliance
• Extend supplier collaboration across all goods and services

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Maintaining traceability in today's globalized environment is harder than ever. Products are designed, sourced, manufactured, used, and serviced across an extended network of international business partners. As a result, companies are under heightened pressure to ensure their products' safety and integrity, comply with increasingly strict regulations, and act swiftly when facing unforeseen adverse events (such as product contamination and defects).

To respond to the imbalance of increased complexity and higher expectations, SAP solutions can help you achieve full and detailed traceability across distributed procurement, manufacturing, and distribution processes. With SAP solutions, you can:

• Track and trace raw materials, manufacturing work in progress, and end products
• Maintain the link between end products and their manufacturing inputs (including materials, components, labor, processes, and machines) to trace product issues back to their root causes
• Authenticate products and monitor their condition to help ensure that only authentic, excellent products reach the customer

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Operating more and more in global business networks, organizations are facing increased supply network complexity as compliance and regulations on the local, regional, and global level proliferate at an accelerated rate. They are also in the midst of an economic crisis that has no end in sight.

Sustainability requires businesses to reconsider their practices and consider a whole new set of risks and opportunities concerning socio-economic, environmental, safety, and health issues. These topics are now raising supply chain risks to a boardroom level.

To ensure that companies can compete in a risk-adverse global network, SAP solutions can help you:

• Reduce cost of compliance and business risk in the face of proliferating local, regional, and global regulation
• Assess and reassess supply-chain risks and align strategy immediately when changes occur
• Deliver a total picture of risk exposure and strategy execution within the supply network

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As our supply networks become more global, demand for our world's natural resources are far outstripping the available supply. As a result, forward-thinking companies are focused on designing and executing their manufacturing and supply networks to optimize natural, human, and physical resources at their disposal.

To ensure that companies can compete in a resource-constrained global supply network, SAP solutions can help you plan, measure, and ultimately design to optimize processes and maximize the effectiveness of these limited resources.

With SAP solutions, you can:

• Optimize the energy and natural resource efficiency of your company's manufacturing and logistics processes for reduced cost and emissions
• Improve visibility and maximize asset utilization and performance
• Design, plan, and execute based on the optimal situation

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Today, companies are collaborating in a globally distributed supply network where products can be designed and made anywhere and sold everywhere. Companies are under heightened pressure to ensure that their design, manufacturing, logistics, and distribution networks are optimized and the highest customer service levels are delivered, with the best quality and lowest cost.

To respond to the imbalance of increased complexity and higher expectations, SAP solutions can help you optimize people, processes, and products across globally distributed procurement, manufacturing, and distribution processes.

With SAP solutions, you can:

• Reduce quality-related issues and costs through a smooth production ramp-up
• Improve visibility across plants, suppliers, outsourced manufacturers, customers, and partners
• Synchronize demand and supply to minimize stock outages, while maintaining lower inventories
• Deliver to demand across a global plant floor of internal and outsourced production facilities
• Source, store, move, and deliver profitably across a global network

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Companies are facing a rising tide of increasingly complex environment, health, and safety (EHS) regulations, resulting in higher compliance costs and increased business risks. As pressure mounts for increased transparency and accountability, the limitations of manual, isolated EHS compliance and reporting systems are posing unnecessary risks to people, operations, and revenue.

With the SAP EHS Management application, you can manage regulatory compliance and operational risks across global business processes by implementing processes that are clear, transparent, and auditable. Benefits include:

• Cost-effective compliance with environmental, industrial hygiene, safety, and occupational health requirements at the local and global level
• Risk mitigation, brand protection, and compliance by integrating corporate EHS policies and regulatory requirements into global business processes
• Improved accuracy and timeliness of EHS reporting through a reliable foundation for auditing, documenting, and communicating relevant information

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Companies are being challenged to track and comply with increasingly complex environmental regulations and requirements, while providing increased accountability and transparency of environmental performance to their shareholders and the public. Effective management of those compliance requirements and associated business risks is difficult and costly with nonstandard, manual processes and disjointed information systems.

The environmental compliance capabilities of the SAP Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) Management application enables companies to implement clear, transparent, and auditable processes that streamline and automate environmental compliance tasks and reporting.

As a result, EHS business leaders and professionals at corporate, business, and plant levels can:

• Cost-effectively track and manage air, water, and waste emissions and discharges
• Automate labor-intensive compliance and reporting requirements
• Standardize processes for permitting and compliance tasks
• Proactively identify and manage risks and deviations
• Gain visibility and control over environmental performance

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Cost-effective delivery of occupational heath services requires not only meeting medical standards and regulatory requirements, but also meeting demands for cost control and improved productivity.

The occupational health capabilities of the SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management application are designed to enable medical directors, occupational physicians, and health care professionals to provide top-quality medical services, while delivering value to the business. This application ties together key employee information - such as work history, exposure records, and work schedules - to optimize occupational health services.

Benefits of this holistic approach include:

• Streamlined collaboration between physicians, safety and industrial hygiene professionals, and the HR department
• Scheduling of health surveillance protocols based on exposure, task, and age
• Readily accessible up-to-date clinical information, results, and reports
• Reduced time to issue required documents, reports, and medical certifications
• Access to all relevant industrial hygiene and safety data

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Protection of employee health and safety is much more than a legal obligation; it's essential to operating a sustainable and profitable business. Occupational injuries, illnesses, and accidents are disruptive to operations and damaging to stakeholder perceptions and brand.

Industrial hygiene and safety capabilities are integral in the SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management) application. With this application, plant, regional, and corporate EHS management staff can proactively manage compliance with corporate, federal, and local worker health and safety requirements.

Benefits include the ability to:

• Identify, assess, and control health and safety risks
• Gain visibility and control over heath and safety performance
• Automate time-consuming data collection and reporting
• Investigate and manage incidents, accidents, and corrective actions
• Manage enterprise hazardous substance reporting and communication requirements
• Improve productivity of safety, industrial hygiene, and operations professionals

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An emergency or crisis can have a devastating impact on an organization and its people and can occur anywhere in an organization's extended supply chain, from the R & D lab to the end customer and beyond. In worst-case scenarios, emergency situations can result in loss of life, injuries, production interruptions, high costs for correction action and recovery, fines and penalties, and damage to the organization's brand.

The best approach to managing emergencies is to prevent them in the first place and mitigate any resulting consequences. SAP's solutions for emergency management enable organizations to proactively manage the entire emergency life cycle, including assessment, planning, prevention, response, recovery, and monitoring.

With SAP solutions, you can help ensure business continuity and protect your people and assets by preventing incidents and minimizing negative impacts.

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A sustainable workplace depends on the ability to create business success that lasts. And every human resources (HR) executive knows that an engaged, committed workforce leads to this kind of success.

Customers, employees, governments, and shareholders are all pressuring HR to develop, communicate, and implement programs and strategies for a workforce that will support long-term business objectives. But how do companies know where to start and, more important, how to get there?

SAP's human capital management solutions and the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio can help organizations understand, prepare, and communicate their sustainability objectives.

As a result, companies like yours can:

• Model and manage workforce demographics
• Merge financial and other employee data
• Provide transparency into sustainability progress
• Visualize and report for highest stakeholder impact
• Provide a foundation for taking action
• Reduce reporting costs

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One of the key characteristics of a sustainable workforce is transparency and open dialogue with management. In addition, organizations seeking to maintain a sustainable workforce must ensure safe and productive work environments and fair opportunities for benefits coverage, training, career development, and representation through collective bargaining or other representative bodies.

Together with local and regional regulations, these measures represent the set of conditions for a decent work environment needed to ensure a sustainable source of labor for an organization in today's global economy.

As a result, companies like yours can:

• Reduce disruptions to productivity via lower accident and illness rate
• Improve employee engagement
• Increase compliance with regulatory agencies, such as Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
• Report on and manage different classes of employees based on collective bargaining agreements
• Improve decision making

For an organization to thrive and be considered sustainable, its workforce must be at least as diverse as its customers, suppliers, partners, and shareholders.

Diversity is a commitment to accepting and supporting all people, regardless of their individual dimensions. Managing diversity is about leveraging it to better understand and serve customers, to drive innovation, and to create a work environment where everybody fully engages for the company's objectives.

SAP's human capital management solutions can help corporations go beyond diversity in just the recruiting process and into the core business processes of hiring and training to better manage the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas of their workforce.

As a result, companies like yours can:

• Expand market share
• Improve customer loyalty
• Increase innovation
• Recruit new skill sets
• Maintain a competitive edge
• Improve decision making

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Maintaining a sustainable workforce leads to stronger communities and better business results. In a sustainable workforce, employees receive regular performance and career development updates, skills and safety training, and personalized potential assessments.

To efficiently deliver these services, organizations require an integrated talent management platform that recognizes an employee's position, the skills required to perform effectively and safely, and the training required to excel in current and future roles. The system must also foster productive manager-employee conversations about performance. Managers need to give clear guidance on development opportunities and training offerings that their people need.

SAP provides solutions and services that support these processes, while effectively engaging employees, managers, and analysts. Also, SAP can help you deliver clear talent and learning-related metrics that help spot problems and determine solutions for a more sustainable workforce.

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The explosion of enterprise data, emerging regulations, and business mandates for agility are all heightening the demand for IT infrastructure that supports sustainability as a driver of growth and innovation. A sustainable IT infrastructure can help reduce costs by optimizing energy consumption, while protecting data and adhering to global standards.

As a recognized leader in sustainability, SAP focuses on providing solutions, services, and partner co-innovation to help define and implement an IT strategy that is aligned to your overall corporate sustainability objectives. As a result, you can reduce the cost of running IT systems, mitigate risk from regulatory noncompliance, and protect data without compromising its availability.

SAP focus areas for sustainable IT infrastructure include:

• Providing secure programs to ensure an individual's right to privacy
• Addressing global accessibility standards
• Helping to reduce energy usage of IT infrastructure
• Developing energy-efficient architectural guidelines

As regulatory demands, infrastructure complexity, and digital information continue to grow, leaders are facing incredible obstacles in providing data security, privacy, and accessibility.

Secure and reliable access to information systems is becoming more and more critical for the business. The accelerated growth of digital interaction into our daily lives has heightened the risk of data security for both organizations and individuals. Companies need to be able to protect that data to gain and retain the trust of customers and employees.

SAP has a firm commitment to provide secure programs that help ensure an individual's right to privacy and address global accessibility standards by enabling:

• Integration of security within development processes and products
• Privacy protection and control for application and data access
• Accessibility of technology infrastructure for everyone
• Availability of IT infrastructure

Increasing pressure on IT infrastructure are rising costs of IT power requirements and the resulting environmental impact. Energy represents a significant expense when running efficient IT operations while complying with business demand.

SAP focuses on decreasing energy consumption and enabling Green IT practices by:

• Co-innovating with customers and partners to build solutions and services that improve sustainability and reduce IT-related energy use
• Leveraging our internal research and findings around green IT to illustrate the benefits that our customers could reap through virtualization and similar initiatives
• Collaborating with technology partners on creating a Green IT benchmark for SAP solutions to address a broader set of performance metrics
• Establishing architectural guidelines that will enable our future solution releases to be more energy efficient

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