SAP Sustainability Control Tower

A solution that helps improve ESG transparency and sustainable business performance

Software that helps users drive holistic steering by setting targets. It is used to monitor progress and gain actionable insights from dependable sustainability data, and helps to establish robust and auditable ESG reporting.

As a central key figure ledger of sustainability-related data, the solution enables users to set targets, monitor progress, and gain actionable insights with automated and updated performance reports by business unit and location. Users can also:

• Source and integrate data from SAP and non-SAP applications into a central sustainability data warehouse
• Harmonize, allocate, and calculate granular sustainability figures along established structures from finance, HR, real estate and operations
• Analyze and report sustainable business data according to established ESG reporting frameworks
• Drive targeted action by giving business units a dedicated view on their sustainability performance

Benefits as described by the vendor:

• Holistic Steering - Offers a holistic understanding and performance management across social, environmental and financial indicators.
• Actionable Insights - Manages financial, operational, and sustainable business performance at a level of granularity which allows decision making and targeted actions for business units, departments, and locations.
• Reporting - Delivers automated and auditable ESG reporting against a variety of regulations, standards, and ratings.
• Confidence and Trust - Improves trust with stakeholders by creating reliable transparency on ESG performance.

Key Features

• Support for 17 of the 21 World Economic Forum (WEF) identified Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) metrics such as diversity, and anti-corruption
• Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) metrics related to climate change
• Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) metrics on water, andclimate
  
• Qualitative Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) metrics related to governance, strategy, and risk management
• Integrates and acquires sustainability and ESG data
• Includes data models to support established reporting frameworks and customer-specific adaptations
• Imports data from any source and enhances its value by directly integrating it with SAP data sources
• Consolidates and harmonizes disjointed data from multiple sources
• Enriches data and performs calculations to create high-quality sustainability key figures
• Supports methods, such as aggregation and disaggregation, to allocate data along established structures from finance, HR, real estate, and operations
• Offers an overview of an organization's holistic sustainability performance with management dashboards
• Data can be used to locate patterns and answer specific reporting inquiries