SAP
Why is ERP- centricity important to SAP? Our customers have been using ERP systems for many years to manage corporate goals in finance, procurement and the supply chain. Over time, they’ ve defined much of the essential data required for sustainability purposes. For example, when calculating a product’ s carbon footprint, you need information about materials movement, which is tracked within ERP – how materials move during production, purchased goods, semi-finished products and so on. We also integrate additional data, such as energy usage.
Simply put, most of the data necessary for sustainability is already storedin ERP systems and our aim is to make full use of that.
Many sustainable activities in organisations are still not fully enterprise-ready: much data is collected on spreadsheets or circulated through emails. Clearly, we need to elevate this to an enterprise level; data must be auditable and reliable. We aim to help customers build an enterprise-class data foundation for sustainability. This is also vital for AI: the better and more contextual your data, the better the outcomes of your AI activities. Data quality and AI are very closely linked.
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