Sustainable supply chain

Strengthen compliance, optimise resources and drive long-term value across your supply chain using SAP Sustainability solutions.
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Build resilient supply chains with sustainability intelligence

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Sustainability built into every decision

Embed sustainability intelligence into processes to gain real-time visibility, improve resilience, automate compliance and make smarter decisions across your autonomous supply chain.

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Automate compliance and reduce risk

Automate regulatory and sustainability requirements across supply chain processes.

Unify supply chain and sustainability data

Connect supplier, product and emissions data to improve visibility and decision-making.

Optimise decisions with sustainability AI

Balance cost, service, resilience and emissions with AI-powered recommendations.

Explore sustainable supply chain management capabilities

Advance from visibility to optimisation and autonomy, with sustainability embedded in every supply chain decision.

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Compliance and product design

Design compliant products and sustainable packaging.

Optimise material choices and product designs

Calculate extended producer responsibility (EPR) obligations, plastic taxes and corporate commitments.

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Automate product compliance tasks

Enforce compliance at each step of the product lifecycle by managing regulatory and sustainability requirements.

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Creating a safer workplace with AI

Join our webinar 22 October and discover how integrated EHS and AI help organisations shift from reactive incident management to proactive risk prevention.

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SAP Supply Chain Connect

Join us 5-7 October to discover how AI drives resilient, compliant supply chains through traceability, sustainable packaging and safe operations.

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EPR in the USA

Discover how EPR policies are evolving in the United States and across the globe.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP

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Scaling sustainable operations with AI

Learn how HARTING Technology Group uses AI-powered sustainability insights to automate emissions mapping and support smarter business decisions.

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Building autonomous compliance at global scale

Learn how ArcelorMittal uses AI-enabled packaging data and automation to simplify compliance, improve accuracy and reduce reporting effort.

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Elevating product compliance processes through automation

Learn how WestWood Kunststofftechnik GmbH is using SAP S/4HANA Cloud for product compliance to automate product safety workflows and support sustainable international business growth.

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Leading the way in supply chain decarbonisation

Discover how WITTE Automotive resolved their carbon footprint and data-sharing challenges using SAP Sustainability Footprint Management and SAP Sustainability Data Exchange.

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See what analysts are saying about SAP

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SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise Architecture Shifts Sustainability from Disclosure to Decision

The IDC Market Note highlights SAP's AI-powered approach to embedding sustainability across finance, supply chain and operations, helping organisations transition from sustainability reporting to sustainability execution.

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SAP named a leader among product compliance software providers

SAP was recognised as a leader in Verdantix’s 2025 Green Quadrant Product Compliance Software report, reflecting a proprietary analysis that incorporated a wide range of research.

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Sustainable supply chains: from insight to action

Deloitte and SAP share actions that COOs and supply chain leaders can take to prepare their supply chains for the future.

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Resources

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Supply chain leaders speak: Sustainability and AI insights

Explore where sustainable supply chain leaders are focused amid evolving regulations and economic uncertainty.

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Product compliance for discrete manufacturers

Learn how to streamline and automate product compliance processes and meet REACH, RoHS and other regulations with SAP S/4HANA solution for product compliance.

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Managing global supply chains in a new regulatory era

Read the guide to making compliance auditable and scalable for EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and beyond with SAP Green Token.

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Ready, Set, Comply: Preparing your business for the PPWR

Navigate PPWR compliance with SAP and Eunomia: key obligations, data requirements and practical guidance.

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Unpacking Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in the US

Understand the developing landscape for EPR in the US, steps  to prepare and how SAP Responsible Design and Production may be used to support compliance.

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How consumer goods companies can prepare for EPR in the US

Hear from industry experts and partners on how to navigate EPR regulations in the United States.

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Manage global product compliance throughout the product lifecycle

SAP S/4HANA for product compliance helps process industries mitigate risks, reduce compliance costs and enable growth.

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How businesses can prepare for the era of global plastic regulation

Prepare for evolving plastic regulations with unified data, compliance insights and sustainability gains.

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Discover SAP Sustainability solutions for supply chain management.

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Experience SAP Sustainability solutions in action

Get a closer look at SAP Sustainability solutions with product tours, free trials and solution demos.

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Frequently asked questions

An autonomous supply chain leverages AI, automation and real-time data to predict disruptions, optimise operations and automate decision-making across planning, sourcing, production and fulfilment. The goal is to improve resilience, efficiency and responsiveness while reducing manual effort and helping organisations adapt more quickly to changing demand and supply conditions.

A sustainable supply chain integrates ethical, environmentally responsible and profitable practices across the entire value chain, from sourcing and manufacturing to logistics, returns and recycling. It relies on end-to-end transparency and digital technologies to reduce waste, manage risk and support sustainability goals while improving resilience and performance.

Designing a sustainable supply chain starts with building resilient, transparent and data-driven networks that align business performance with sustainability goals. SAP recommends improving end-to-end visibility across suppliers and logistics; embedding sustainable design and circular economy principles; leveraging AI-driven insights; and using responsible sourcing practices to reduce risk, emissions and waste while creating long-term value.

Supply chain sustainability is important because it helps organisations improve resilience, meet growing regulatory requirements, strengthen supplier accountability and make better business decisions with trusted data. SAP emphasises embedding sustainability into core processes and using cloud ERP to connect environmental, operational and financial data, enabling organisations to reduce risk, increase transparency, track emissions and turn sustainability into a competitive advantage.