Sustainability along the entire Design to Operate end2end process

and customers will choose ethical traceability over a doubtfully cheap alternative.

“These regulatory requirements, they really affect the entire supply chain throughout the design to operate cycle, end-to-end, and at the end,” Andreas states. “It's all about generating and managing master data. You really need master data to be generated and managed across the entire value chain, so you are able to decide every step in the business process. How sustainable is this step? What are my choices? What is the financial impact? And then, as a decision-maker, you need to have the data available there to make the right decision here.” This is where SAP’s design to operate (D2O) approach is well positioned to enable companies to get a view on every aspect across critical business processes and make intelligent decisions backed by data. In addition, SAP CEO Christian Klein has already talked about SAP adding a green ledger to enterprise resource planning (ERP) so that companies can account for their carbon emissions in the way they currently account for their financial situation.

“We can offer you reliable environmental, social and governance (ESG) data for your entire enterprise,” says Andreas. He cites the newest version of the