ArcelorMittal: Forging toward global packaging compliance with clarity and confidence
Galvanizing reporting and gaining packaging insights
As one of the world’s leading integrated steel and mining companies, ArcelorMittal is transforming tomorrow by producing “smarter steels” for people and the planet. With the SAP Responsible Design and Production solution, the company has reinforced its approach to global regulatory reporting, gaining smarter, more sustainable packaging insights.
| Industry | Region | Company Size |
| Mill products and mining | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg | 125,416 employees |
increase in accuracy and reliability of packaging-fee calculations.
greater productivity and time savings in end-to-end reporting process.
aligned packaging definitions and expected future standardization.
Digital and Information Technology Finance, ArcelorMittal Flat Europe
| Industry | Region | Company Size |
| Mill products and mining | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg | 125,416 employees |
increase in accuracy and reliability of packaging-fee calculations.
greater productivity and time savings in end-to-end reporting process.
aligned packaging definitions and expected future standardization.
Digital and Information Technology Finance, ArcelorMittal Flat Europe
Casting a new standard to meet complex global regulations
Steel is more than just a resource; it’s an infinitely recyclable and reusable material forging a path toward a truly circular economy. As one of the world’s leading integrated steel and mining companies, ArcelorMittal is producing smarter steels for people and the planet. From electric vehicles to low-carbon building solutions to renewable energy infrastructure, smarter steels are making a valuable contribution to the energy transition.
With complex packaging requirements pending under extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulations, the company decided to transform its disparate reporting process. Fragmented data and manual inputs invited inaccuracies that carried heavy financial and compliance consequences. To forge a stronger path through complex regulations in Italy and Spain, ArcelorMittal needed a scalable solution designed to maintain pace with global mandates and accelerate readiness for the European Union’s new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).
Agency Finance—South, ArcelorMittal Commercial Italy Srl.
Tempering report workflows to produce sharper packaging insights
Aiming to build a better world with advanced, sustainable, and recyclable steels, ArcelorMittal chose the SAP Responsible Design and Production solution to open the door to future-ready packaging capabilities.
Early project efforts immediately reduced error rates and improved EPR reporting production times by unifying data and eliminating multiple spreadsheet inputs. Transactional data could automatically flow into a centralized, cloud-based repository where predefined, country-specific rules would be applied without manual intervention. The solution’s new user-defined report feature would allow the company to customize report categories, calculation rules, and fee structures.
By employing an accelerated integration scheme, experts for SAP Services and Support could capitalize on ArcelorMittal’s existing landscape, find compatibilities, and standardize internal processes. Merging intuitive functionality with deep regulatory intelligence would empower the company to navigate the ever-shifting landscape of global EPR requirements.
Group CIO and CISO, ArcelorMittal S.A.
Refining compliance data to build a long-term, scalable asset
The first customer in the steel sector to go live with SAP Responsible Design and Production, ArcelorMittal was able to strengthen its approach to global EPR regulations and better manage the complexity of country-specific packaging requirements.
The company can now accurately calculate EPR fees and generate reports for Italy’s national packaging consortium, CONAI. In Spain, it can also more easily meet the requirements of the Ecoembes packaging recycling scheme and MITECO Annex IV environmental legislation. A reporting process that once consumed days now runs reliably and automatically, freeing experts to focus on innovation instead of administration.
Having its business and sustainability data available and in sync allows ArcelorMittal to address regulatory complexities and enhance operational agility. This transformation turned compliance data into a long-term, scalable asset—generating strategic value and insights designed to guide smarter, more sustainable packaging and material choices.
Navigating a path toward a cleaner and greener steelmaking future
Believing that steel lies at the heart of a smarter, safer, and more sustainable future, ArcelorMittal is planning to roll out SAP Responsible Design and Production across Europe. The company is also proactively preparing for upcoming regulations, such as the PPWR.
Over time, ArcelorMittal intends to move from a traditional IT approach to a cloud-based infrastructure, starting with SAP Business Technology Platform and the SAP Sales Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud solutions. The company’s expansion plan will also include additional SAP Sustainability solutions.
Future company targets, such as achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, are aligned with the Paris Agreement, the European Green Deal, and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. With the formation of ResponsibleSteel, the steel industry’s first multistakeholder global certification initiative, ArcelorMittal continues to demonstrate its commitment to the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of the steel sector.
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