Our Potential Direct and Indirect Impact
Our KPIs and Targets
Our Policies and Selected Activities and Programs to Enhance Positive Impacts and Mitigate Negative Impacts
Where You Can Find More Information in the SAP Integrated Report and Other Sources
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-Being
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
Employees and Social Investments
SAP and SDG 3
Healthcare
SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management
Improving Well-Being Through Human Experience Management
SAP Mental Health Initiative
SAP’s COVID-19 Response
Corona-Warn-App
SDG 4 Quality Education
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
Employees and Social Investments
SAP and SDG 4
SAP Learning for Life
Powering Opportunity Through Digital Inclusion
SAP Digital Learning Initiative 
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
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 
Employees and Social Investments
SAP and SDG 8
Skilled and Inclusive Workforce
Supporting Social Entrepreneurship
Powering Opportunity Through Digital Inclusion
SAP Rural Sourcing Management
SAP Ariba and Social Enterprise UK
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
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
Products, Research & Development, and Services
Employees and Social Investments
SAP & SDG9
SAP Innovation
SAP Partnering with Social Enterprise Forum
One Billion Lives Initiative
SAP.io
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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
SAP and SDG 10
Human Rights Commitment Statement
Equality for All
Diversity and Inclusion
Social Justice
Spotlight on Black-Owned Businesses
Equal Pay for Equal Work
Inclusive Language in Software
Fostering Corporate Spend with Diverse Suppliers
Powering Opportunity Through Digital Inclusion
SAP Rural Sourcing Management
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
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
Energy and Emissions
Waste and Water
Sustainable Procurement
Environmental Policy
SAP and SDG 12
Circular Economy
SAP Plastics Cloud
SAP and the Circular Economy
Circular Design Project
SAP and Topolytics Launch COP26 Waste Insights Project
Phase out single-use plastics
Buy social: 5 & 5 by ’25
SHIFT: Digital tools to fight ocean plastics
Material traceability
SDG 13 Climate Action
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
Energy and Emissions
Compensation Report
Environmental Policy
SAP and SDG 13
Climate Action
Climate Change: What SAP Is Doing
SAP sets 1.5°C science-based emissions reduction targets aligned with a net-zero future
SAP’s investment in Livelihoods Carbon Funds
Climate 21
SAP Product Carbon Footprint Analytics
SAP Concur Sustainable Travel
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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
Employees and Social Investment
SAP and SDG 17
SAP and UNICEF
SAP Founding Member of Value Balancing Alliance
SAP joins the Global Alliance for YOUth
Global Battery Alliance
Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy
SDG Ambition
SAP joins the Ellen MacArthur Foundation
WEF Global Plastic Action Partnership