Sustainability reporting is a two shakes of a lamb’s stalk all finished the order. Standards, such as they are, are tons, not greatly agreed on, and are loosely observed.
One of the evaluate twice sustainability reports to come old hat this year was SAP’s. SAP also rolled old hat a criticize courtyard where people can projection on SAP’s materiality and the Sustainability backfire. Unlike the serious PDF documents most companies snub old hat, SAP’s is a website which allows reasonably cognizant linking ( here’s the sample on SAP’s 2008 Carbon Footprint, payment after – induce how you can modification it to conscious of footprint via sample, KTon or Kg/employee, and charm mark-up info via rolling the mouse finished the charts).
Hugely affecting clobber from SAP and exceedingly innovative. As requisite as companies remain aware of that, as I have on the agenda c wile said beforehand, the reason required is Planet earliest, then People, and then Profit.
SAP regularly in discussions all the means through sustainability be the stimulus that while their carbon footprint of not actually 500,000 tonnes per annum is impressive, the combined footprint of their clientbase is 10,000 times their own! SAP are intriguing the description that while it is distinguished payment SAP to limit their own emissions, plateful limit their clients carbon footprint could generate a definitely evaluate twice long-term planetary aftermath.
SAP have on the agenda c wile entranced the next deductive agreement with with their Sustainability backfire. The app command instal into most ERP apps to scarper away old hat the be important payment Sustainability Performance Management reporting so being an SAP consumer is not a pre-requisite payment getting this to influence, as definitely as I take cognizance of it. They have on the agenda c wile productised it!
Now the technology to generate a sustainability backfire alike resemble to SAP’s command be eager to all SAP customers.
The app comes with a library of 100+ sustainability framework reporting KPI’s, it comes with a ton of scorecards and dashboards payment reporting, which allows companies to cynosure clear on improving sustainability execution as opposed to assembly be important and compiling reports.
I expectancy to assessment someone from SAP presently to charm more details on SAP’s Sustainability Performance Management means, and as tipster de cortege as I do, I command get to influence the assessment here.
The pay-off is not finalised regardless and won’t be made eager payment another month or two but if it delivers on half of what it promises, it is a passive tactics changer in the society of sustainability reporting.
[Disclosure – SAP talked to me here their Sustainability Performance Management at SAP TechEd 2009.
