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SAP Sustainability Control Tower

Score8.8 out of 10

35 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Sustainability Control Tower?

SAP Sustainability Control Tower is a software solution that helps to enable users to reach sustainable business ambitions with holistic enterprise-wide sustainability performance management.

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Who Buys & Uses SAP Sustainability Control Tower

Pros

  • Seamless integration with various data systems
  • Robust data management for emissions and activity data
  • Configurable KPI mapping for sustainability metrics

Cons

  • Limited ready-to-use data connectors, requiring manual intervention
  • Opportunities for expanded industry-specific standards
  • Need for more granular calculation capabilities, e.g., production emissions

AI based Data Governance and Reporting Management System.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used as centralized data sourcing and there on creating analytics based reports from the data. It was critical in supporting cross reporting services with proper validation checks.

Pros

  • Connecting multiple data sources
  • Creating Reports
  • Data Imports

Cons

  • Complex configurations
  • Bit of time taking

Return on Investment

  • Automation is the main out come along with data utility
  • Can't share the ROI, but it in good shape if used proper way

Usability

Other Software Used

Sales Force Assistant, SAP Billing and Revenue Management (RevSym)

All your sustainability tracking at one place

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP Sustainability Control Tower mostly for EsG reporting purpose for corporate governance and reporting to our main office. With a new and recent addition to our sap suite we are still exploring the capabilities of SAP Sustainability Control Tower for vendor esg data and footprint of supply chain.

Pros

  • ESG report generation
  • Auditing

Cons

  • It is still a new field in our corporation integration with more modules.
  • Help in accurate forecasting

Return on Investment

  • Inpact not yet realized as it is fairly new addition to our SAP suite.

Usability

Other Software Used

SAP Ariba, SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence

SAP Sustainability Control Tower

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Sustainability Control Tower help us to undestard emision and control.

Pros

  • control
  • analysis
  • calculations
  • analisis
  • calculos

Cons

  • calculate production emissions
  • materials production control dashboard

Return on Investment

  • materials production control dashboard
  • fast ROI

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Joule Studio, Joule, SAP Ariba and Oracle Analytics

Other Software Used

SAP SuccessFactors HCM, Oracle Analytics, eWMS, SAP Ariba

Room to improve on sector specific content

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP Sustainability Control Tower (SCT for short from now on) to build reports that are able to plot in a relatively simple way aspects as comples as monitoring L2 and L3 process emissions in a way which not only can be understandable for non-technically inclined stakeholders, but that it also helps them take action based on said reports

Pros

  • Integration with ERP data
  • Some standard content (not always industry specific though)

Cons

  • Industry specific standard content
  • More ease of integration of external data sources

Return on Investment

  • More visibility on what causes emissions
  • Better understanding of supplier backgrounds

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SAP Analytics Cloud and Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Sales Cloud, Microsoft Power BI

A Strong Platform for Centralized Sustainability.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It brings sustainable data from different business processes into a single place, creating a single source of truth where we analyze actual performance against sustainable targets and identify areas for corrective action.

Pros

  • Great dashboards and visualization.
  • Data consolidation.

Cons

  • I believe it can work around the data integration part by providing ready-to-use connector options for simpler integration, reducing manual intervention.

Return on Investment

  • To a great extent, it has brought everything onto a single platform, reducing the time spent collecting data from different places to support the documentation.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability

Other Software Used

SAP Cloud ERP (SAP S/4HANA Cloud), SAP Analytics Cloud