Direct:
 

(+) Provide access to a healthy lifestyle and a safe and healthy working environment for our employees

Indirect:
 

(+) Enhance safe and healthy working conditions, healthcare, and personalized medicine on a global scale

(–) Increase transparency of physical, medical, and health conditions of individuals, which might be abused

Business Health Culture Index

Direct:
 

Global Health and Safety Management Policy; Employee Assistance Program; Corporate Oncology Program for Employees; Mental Health Initiative

Indirect:
 

SAP Solutions for Healthcare, SAP Environment, Health and Safety Management, SAP SuccessFactors; Corona-Warn-App

Direct:
 

(+) Train and educate SAP employees
 

Indirect:
 

(+) Build capability in our ecosystem and among our customers

Engaging four million children, youth, and young adults in digital skills and coding programs by 2021

Direct:
 

Cloud-based learning management system for employees

Indirect:
 

openSAP; CSR digital literacy programs; SAP digital learning initiative

SAP Digitial Learning Initiative 

Direct:
 

(+) Create decent jobs at SAP through our growth plans, specifically in developing markets
 

Indirect:
 

(+) Create three million jobs in our ecosystem (based on a 2017 study by SAP and PwC)
 

(+) Enable an inclusive economy
 

(+) Combat forced and child labor throughout supply chains
 

(–) Fuel negative effects on employment through digitalization and automation; potentially increase precarious jobs

Number of employees

Direct:

SAP recruiting programs

Indirect:
 

SAP Rural Sourcing Management; 

SAP Ariba Supplier Risk; 

Partnership with Social Enterprise UK 

Direct:
 

(+) Increase inclusive and sustainable industrialization through SAP’s investments in research and development (including in developing countries)
 

Indirect:
 

(+) Support providers of infrastructure, financial services and clean technologies
 

(+) Provide “Best Practice” business processes through standard software solutions
 

(+) Integrate small and medium-sized enterprises into global value chains and markets

NA

Direct:
 

SAP Labs Network; One Billion Lives initiative fostering purpose-driven innovation
 

Indirect:
 

SAP support for startups through various programs

Direct:
 

(+) Ensure equal opportunity and inclusion of all employees, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion, or economic or other status
 

Indirect:
 

(+) Enable an inclusive economy by providing tools and systems to foster inclusion of all in workforce and supply chains
 

(–) Decouple societal groups from entire areas of employment through an accelerated digital divide and lack of digital skills

 

30% women in management by year end 2022

 

 

Double the representation of African-American talent in the U.S. over the next three years

 

Reach 5% of annual addressable procurement spend with social enterprises and with diverse businesses by 2025A

 

Direct:
 

Human Rights Commitment Statement; Diversity & Inclusion programs including EDGE certification; SAP Global Anti-Discrimination Policy; 5 & 5 by ’25 initiative
 

Indirect:
 

SAP Ariba Supplier Risk Management; Partnerships with Global Citizen and Female Quotient

Direct:
 

(+) Drive sustainable business practices and integrated reporting
 

(–) Use energy, water, and resources; produce waste
 

Indirect:
 

(+) Decouple economic prosperity from resource consumption by enabling transparency and optimizing resource productivity in linear or circular economies
 

(–) Increase absolute resource and energy consumption because efficiency gains through automation may be counteracted (rebound effect)

We drive resource productivity with an aspiration to a world with zero waste.

Direct:
 

Beyond Single-Use Plastics initiative; Supplier Code of Conduct; Sustainable Procurement; e-waste recycling

Indirect:
 

SAP Plastics Challenge; 5 & 5 by ’25 initiative; SAP Ariba Supplier Risk Management; SAP Digital Supply Chain; SAP Rural Sourcing Management; SAP Logistics Business Network and Material Traceability

Direct:
 

(+) Assume responsibility for products in use-related emissions by running customer applications in the SAP green Cloud
 

(–) Emit greenhouse gases
 

Indirect:
 

(+) Contribute to climate change mitigation and strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters of our customers
 

(+) Enable holistic operational steering by integrating climate-change relevant parameters and help understand and minimize the climate footprint of a company’s products, operations, and services
 

(–) Increase customers’ energy consumption through use of software

Become carbon neutral by 2023

Direct:
 

Global Environmental Policy; Report and reduce CO2 emissions and energy consumption; Procure 100% renewable electricity; Carbon impact relevance for Executive Board compensation
 

Indirect:
 

Green Cloud; Business ambition for 1.5°C; Climate 21 program; Product Carbon Footprint Analytics; Concur Travel, and TripIT

Direct:
 

(+) Build capacity throughout our broader ecosystem

NA

Engage in UN Global Compact, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, UN Development Program, UNICEF, Social World Enterprise Forum, UN Technology and Innovation Labs (UNTIL), Global Alliance for YOUth, Value Balancing Alliance, Global Citizen, IMPACT 2030, WEF Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy, WEF Global Plastic Action Partnership, Global Battery Alliance, SDG Ambition, BSR, Business Call to Action

SAP and SDG 17
SAP and UNICEF
SAP Founding Member of Value Balancing Alliance