Prioritizing sustainability over financial performance.

Maintaining separate systems for sustainability and finance to avoid confusing two fundamentally different types of data.

Disconnected business processes.

Streamlined and efficient auditing and reporting process.

Integrating carbon emissions data into ERP processes

Using SAP Sustainability Footprint Management to calculate carbon footprints at a product level to support sustainable procurement and product design.

Implementing reverse logistics processes with SAP Responsible Design and Production.

Building custom metrics within SAP Sustainability Control Tower

Using SAP S/4HANA for product compliance to track the financial impact of biodiversity loss.

Most major innovation has been done and solutions are becoming commoditized. Therefore, SAP competes mainly on price and not capabilities.

Pure-play vendors are just starting to enter the market, and SAP has an opportunity through integrated business processes and data, and also its extensive AI portfolio.

The sustainability solutions market is still developing, with significant potential for growth and evolution. This stage of maturity provides SAP with substantial opportunities to shape and dominate the market.

The sustainability solutions market has minimal competition, as SAP’s competitors are still evaluating their response to growing regulation.