Organizations are faced with increasing pressure to meet evolving sustainability requirements while controlling rising costs. They understand that integrating sustainability into their existing business processes can address these challenges but may not know where to begin.
SAP's sustainability essentials package helps organizations like yours advance sustainability priorities with integrated capabilities available through SAP S/4HANA Cloud. These ERP-centric, AI-enabled solutions help embed sustainability insights and processes into your cloud ERP environment to support long-term initiatives.
Activating your available sustainability essentials package from SAP is a simple process that can help you begin addressing your most pressing sustainability needs today. By getting started now, you’ll be positioned to take advantage of future capabilities, including AI-supported approaches, and scale them over time.
Step 1: Get to know your sustainability essentials package capabilities
SAP's sustainability essentials package integrates ERP-centric, AI-enabled solutions within your existing SAP Cloud ERP processes to help maximize audit-ready ESG reporting, financial impact management in sustainability, and sustainability footprint optimization.
The following capabilities are already available to SAP S/4HANA Cloud customers.
SAP Sustainability Control Tower
SAP Sustainability Control Tower is an AI-enabled ESG reporting and sustainability performance management solution. By activating it, organizations establish a governed data foundation for automated ESG data collection, audit-ready disclosure, and AI-assisted report generation across multiple frameworks. Organizations can reduce reporting costs, manage compliance risk, and build stakeholder confidence from a single governed system.
- Establish your governed ESG data foundation: Set up your organizational structure, configure regulatory frameworks, and collect ESG metrics from SAP and connected systems, with full traceability from source to published disclosure.
- Generate audit-ready sustainability disclosures: Produce governed disclosures across IFRS S1/S2, ESRS, GRI, and other frameworks using AI-assisted report generation, automated change logs, and governed workflows that meet finance-grade assurance standards.
- Manage and improve ESG performance: Track performance against targets, monitor ESG metrics across reporting periods, and use analytics to support planning decisions and produce verified disclosures that meet investor and stakeholder expectations.
- Gain AI-enabled regulatory readiness: Tackle new and changing ESG regulations with the Sustainability Regulatory Readiness Agent.
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management provides ERP-centric carbon management capabilities that support decarbonization at scale. This solution enables organizations to calculate emissions, connect sustainability data across systems, and incorporate carbon insights into day-to-day business decisions.
- Calculate carbon footprints enterprise-wide: Automate corporate and product carbon footprint calculations with standardized methodologies and scale across thousands of products and suppliers.
- Embed sustainability into existing ERP: Connect SAP S/4HANA Cloud data with supplier information, facility data, and external sustainability sources through automated integration and data acquisition capabilities.
- Enable decarbonization decisions: Bring carbon insights directly into business processes to support sustainable procurement and carbon management strategies.
- Turn environmental footprint data into reduction opportunities: Reduce carbon footprint more efficiently with an AI agent that can help decide where to focus sustainability efforts.
SAP Sustainability Data Exchange
SAP Sustainability Data Exchange helps organizations standardize how they share product carbon footprint data across value chains in a secure and scalable way. The solution supports greater Scope 3 emissions transparency by enabling collaboration with suppliers and customers while helping organizations improve the quality and consistency of sustainability data.
- Share carbon footprint data across your value chain: Exchange actual carbon and packaging data with suppliers and customers while maintaining interoperability and data sovereignty across industries and business networks.
- Support carbon reduction initiatives: Identify opportunities to reduce emissions, improve product footprint visibility, and use supplier-specific data to support more informed sustainability decisions.
- Standardize sustainability data exchange: Simplify audits and improve data accuracy through standardized data models, workflows, and industry-aligned exchange frameworks.
Step 2: See SAP's sustainability capabilities in action
The fastest way to understand the value of SAP’s sustainability essentials package is to preview how these solutions work. These short product demos show how sustainability data flows into existing ERP business processes to inform reporting, carbon footprint calculations, analytics, and decision-making workflows.
SAP Sustainability Control Tower
Explore how SAP Sustainability Control Tower automates audit-ready ESG disclosure and sustainability performance management from a single governed data foundation.
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management
Get an overview of how SAP's cloud-based carbon management solution directly pulls from existing business data to calculate carbon footprints at scale and drive sustainable decision-making.
SAP Sustainability Data Exchange
See how SAP Sustainability Data Exchange enables secure, standardized sharing of product carbon footprint data across supply chains to improve Scope 3 transparency and support sustainability collaboration at scale.
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Step 3: Schedule your walkthrough
A personalized walkthrough can help you identify the capabilities most relevant to your sustainability goals and carbon management initiatives while showing how the solutions can integrate with your existing ERP landscape.
Request a demo of your sustainability essentials package solutions from SAP.
Step 4: Connect with SAP to activate
Whether you're beginning your ESG reporting journey or looking to use AI-enabled sustainability solutions more effectively, SAP experts can help you activate your available sustainability essentials package from SAP and begin realizing your sustainability vision.
Contact SAP today to get started.
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FAQ
The sustainability essentials package from SAP is a set of ERP-centric, AI-enabled cloud solutions embedded into SAP S/4HANA Cloud that weave sustainability into your cloud ERP system. It helps organizations:
- Streamline regulatory compliance and ESG reporting.
- Access real-time sustainability insights that can improve decision-making.
- Enable scope 3 product data sharing across their value chain.
SAP's sustainability essentials package includes SAP Sustainability Control Tower, SAP Sustainability Footprint Management, and SAP Sustainability Data Exchange.
Organizations can get started with SAP's sustainability essentials package in four simple steps:
- Understand the available sustainability solutions included with their existing license.
- Review product demonstrations.
- Schedule a solution walkthrough led by SAP.
- Contact SAP to begin activation.
This approach helps organizations quickly realize value from their sustainability investment.
SAP Sustainability Control Tower is an AI-enabled ESG reporting and sustainability performance management solution. It delivers finance-grade ESG metrics and end-to-end traceability from a single governed data foundation, supporting audit-ready disclosure across multiple regulatory frameworks through AI-assisted report generation and governed workflows.
Included in SAP's sustainability essentials package, it also enables organizations to track performance against targets, monitor ESG metrics across reporting periods, and connect sustainability data to business decisions on cost, risk, and capital.
SAP Sustainability Control Tower supports ESG reporting by helping organizations:
- Automate ESG data collection through governed, workflow-driven processes.
- Manage finance-grade ESG metrics aligned with regulations and sustainability standards.
- Generate audit-ready ESG report drafts using AI-assisted, workflow-driven reporting.
- Produce disclosures that strengthen investor confidence and support access to sustainable finance markets.
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management helps with carbon accounting by calculating, analyzing, and managing carbon emissions using both enterprise and supply chain data. Integrated with SAP Sustainability Data Exchange, it enables companies to:
- Calculate product and corporate carbon footprints with greater accuracy.
- Move from emissions estimates and averages to actual supplier-provided carbon data.
- Improve Scope 3 emissions transparency across the value chain through standardized carbon data exchange.
- Identify emissions hotspots and opportunities for decarbonization.
- Support auditability and reporting with traceable carbon data, workflows, and sustainability analytics.
Organizations can gain the following business benefits by activating SAP’s sustainability essentials package:
- Increase operational efficiency: Optimize resources and reduce waste, driving cost savings.
- Centralize data and reporting: Streamline data collection and enhance sustainability tracking.
- Improve sustainable sourcing and supplier management: Increase supplier transparency and reduce procurement-related emissions.
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