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Record, report, and act with SAP Sustainability solutions

​​Sustainability in business is more relevant than ever. You’re under pressure to be transparent with your data and processes. We’ve got you covered with sustainability management solutions for ESG reporting, climate action, circular economy, and social responsibility.

SAP ​​Sustainability solutions deliver company-wide functionality and industry-specific features that can help you incorporate sustainability in business at scale by embedding operations, experience, and financial insights into your core business processes.​​

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SAP sustainability solutions address four key areas

Holistic Steering and Reporting - We have moved beyond financial measures to evaluate the consequences of actions on society, the environment, and the wider economy.

Zero Emissions with Climate Action - SAP has embedded analytical and transactional capabilities into enterprise applications.

Zero Waste with Circular Economy - SAP solutions offer enterprises ways to systemically shift to build long-term resilience, generate business and economic opportunities.

Zero Inequality with Social Responsibility - Fully integrates ethical and environmentally responsible practices into a competitive and successful model — end-to-end supply chain transparency is critical.

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Sustainability portfolio overview

SAP are the right partner for your sustainability journey with the most comprehensive portfolio and holistic sustainability vision. Embed sustainability into your business DNA with our extensive range of solutions evolving towards a Green Ledger. Ensure seamless E2E integration into business processes. Leverage SAP systems with embedded ESG solutions to gather accurate, real time and required data (scope 1-3) in your supply chain. SAP know your industry specific challenges and can provide the right solution, connecting you with the largest sustainability network.

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ESG data moves from averages to actuals

SAP has developed SAP Sustainability Control Tower, which was introduced in early 2022. In a market update available now, the solution offers what companies are looking for today to run more sustainably.

Companies want to record ESG factors based on actual data, not averages. SAP Sustainability Control Tower easily imports cross-enterprise data from SAP systems like SAP S/4HANA, SAP Product Footprint Management, and SAP Environment, Health, and Safety. It also integrates with non-SAP systems using a range of APIs to create audit-ready data. Businesses can integrate and analyze granular ESG data using the established structures from their finance, HR, and operations teams using templated data models and calculations.

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SAP Product Footprint Management

SAP Product Footprint Management integrates into your SAP S/4HANA Cloud or SAP S/4HANA system and reuses your existing business data to combine it with environmental factors and to calculate the footprints of your products periodically and at scale. Enterprise scale and cloud deployment. Live connectivity to SAP S/4HANA with vast reuse of existing business data & structures. Emission factors management & monthly calculation of all products in the system. Inbuild integration back to SAP S/4HANA systems and the relevant end-to-end processes.

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SAP Responsible Design & Production 

Access enterprise or third-party system data and combine it with information on global regulations to calculate obligations in key markets with the SAP Responsible Design and Production solution. Cloud deployment. Live connectivity to SAP S/4HANA with vast reuse of existing business context, data, and structures. Ability to calculate and report on EPR fees, plastic taxes, and corporate commitments. Insights that give strategic decision makers a lifecycle view into costs and planetary impact of design choices.

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S/4 HANA Product Compliance

Enforce compliance at each step of the product lifecycle with SAP's product compliance software. With SAP S/4HANA for product compliance, you can manage regulatory and sustainability requirements, track registrations and substance volumes, classify products, and create compliance documents, as well as package, transport, and store hazardous materials properly with accurate labeling.

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SAP Environment Health & Safety EHS Solution

The SAP EHS solution delivers a single primary source of emissions data that can be provided both for overall corporate sustainability reporting and carbon credit accounting. As a consequence, fulfilment of compliance obligations becomes both easy and cost effective.

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Develop a more diverse and inclusive work force with SAP Success Factors

While we can all continue to learn, grow, and change, what I do know with certainty is this: Technology–specifically human resources (HR) technology–has a leading role to play in helping organizations live and work by diversity, equity, and inclusive practices.

SAP has been working on putting this principle into action for quite some time. When we introduced Business Beyond Bias in 2016, our intention was to help customers optimize features within their SAP SuccessFactors solutions to eliminate inherent biases around age, race and ethnicity, differently-abled, and LGBTQ+ communities. All this functionality exists today.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product Centric Enterprises

Gartner defines the market for cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) for product-centric enterprises as a market for application technology that supports the automation of operational and financial activities for the manufacturing, distribution, delivery and servicing of goods. Gartner considers ERP to be a foundational technology for operating enterprises.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service Centric Enterprises

Gartner defines a service-centric cloud ERP solution as a suite that is sold and marketed as integrated products comprising the following Financial Management System functionality, Order-to-Cash, Procure to Pay and Human Capital Management and other administrative ERP to support service-centric industries, such as project management (for project-centric capabilities), extended planning and analysis, and real-estate lease management. Additional verticals are also considered higher education, public sector and utilities.

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The Forrester Wave - Digital operations platforms for manufacturing & distribution

As technology executives modernize their old technology to meet modern business needs of agility and innovation, they are replacing their old enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems with modern choices — which are versionless, cloud-based, and built with AI at the core. These systems are more open, modular, cloud, and ecosystem-oriented than their predecessors, and they have support for modern development techniques such as low-code and no-code. Forrester uses the term digital operations platforms (DOP) to refer to this new generation of ERP systems. These systems offer ready-to-go business functionality spanning finance, accounting, and other operational areas that run the enterprise — such as inventory management, procurement, and resource planning.

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IDC Marketscape Worldwide SaaS and cloud-enabled operational ERP applications 2022 vendor assessment

The digital-first world has arrived and with it comes a focus on digital-based capabilities in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The automation of workflows, with innovation like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), robotic process automation (RPA), natural language processing, and predictive analytics coupled with SaaS and cloud capabilities that enable anywhere and anytime access are enhancing the operational efficiencies of the organization. These new capabilities are improving the employees experience with greater insights, which can lead to better performance outcomes.

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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide holistic supply chain planning 2022 vendor assessment

This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that explain a vendor's success in the holistic supply chain planning (SCP) space and help assess current and anticipated performance in the marketplace. Supply chain planning has become both central and critical to the success of the resilient supply chain. This IDC study assesses the capabilities and business strategies of 17 key vendors with broad competencies in overall supply chain planning.

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Gartner Reprint Critical capabilities for procure-to-pay suites Q4 2022

P2P suites are common purchases for organizations looking to simplify and digitize their procurement processes. The P2P market is mature, with mainstream adoption. There is a growing trend for customers to purchase P2P offerings as part of a larger S2P deal with a single vendor. Many of the core P2P capabilities have become mainstream, and vendors now compete on AI/analytics and industry-specific innovations. P2P suite vendors may also offer products with additional functions, including: Budget management, Contingent workforce management, Dynamic discounting and/or supply chain financing (SCF), Inventory management, Supplier information management (SIM) and/or supplier registration, Employee expense management & Payments

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Gartner Reprint Magic Quadrant for procure-to-pay suites Q4 2022

Procure-to-pay (P2P) suites have a broad appeal for organizations across all industries and geographies. Key differentiators in the market include depth of support for multiple spend types (see Note1), supplier network intelligence, advanced analytics and automation. Ease of use is the No. 1 factor for new buyers as implementation fees continue to grow, making successful user adoption critical. Additional key buying decision points include: global support, supplier onboarding and configurable industry capabilities. Gartner expects increased process automation, prescriptive analytics insights and turnkey integrations to heavily influence vendor selection in coming years.

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Chartis RiskTech for Governance, Risk & Compliance - 7 Quadrants Reports

A set of 7 Chartis RiskTech Reports

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Waste & Recycling One Success story book 

The success stories are as much a testament to the devotion and dedication of our customers as well as ISB Global’s hard work. With digital transformation at the forefront of climate change mitigation and circular economy, there is opportunity for us to all play our part in exceptional teamwork, driving the transition to a net zero economy, ensuring the clean habitation and survival of the planet.

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ISB Global & Rumpke CEO Magazine 

In 2018, ISB Global entered a strategic partnership with Rumpke Waste & Recycling, launching an implementation of ISB Global’s Waste & Recycling One, integrated with SAP S/4HANA. 

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Albermarle - Providing value added solutions that contribute to a
more sustainable planet

Albemarle’s purpose today is to make the world safe and sustainable. The company, founded in 1887, provides energy, electronics, and transportation sectors with innovative bromine, catalyst, and lithium solutions that promote safety, preserve resources, and change the way the world looks at energy. As part of its growth strategy, Albemarle wanted to consolidate multiple ERP systems and harmonize, simplify, and standardize its business processes. The company recognized this digital transformation was also an opportunity to build a platform for future innovation.

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Allied Rongda: Fueling an intelligent enterprise with a robust integration management solution

Headquarted in Huairou, Beijing, Allied Rongda Enterprise Group has been a pioneer in high-tech engineering materials research and manufacturing since its founding in 1996. Allied Rongda’s product portfolio ranges from unshaped refractory materials to high-performance concrete and chemical building materials. With more than 20 years of investment in R&D and its talented employees, Allied Rongda has obtained more than 50 patents and achieved Beijing “well-known trademark” status.

As a typical process manufacturer, Allied Rongda faces severe efficiency, compliance, and talent pipeline challenges. It needed the right software to help it unify production, sales, and business processes and enable a swift transition to intelligent, digitalized operations.

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Asian Paints: Transforming from paint chemicals to decor using cutting edge enterprise IT

Asian Paints Limited has been at the forefront of paint innovation for 75 years. From small beginnings in 1942, it has grown into one of the top 10 global paints and coatings companies, with 26 plants and customers in more than 60 countries. Driven by an innovative spirit and by market trends, Asian Paints is transforming to become a provider of décor products and services. Powering this transformation, is a single instance of SAP S/4HANA ® for Indian and international operations as well as the SAP ® BW/4HANA ® solution for data warehousing. It is also scaling manufacturing operations using the SAP Extended Warehouse Management, SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence, and SAP Manufacturing Execution applications, supported by SAP Services and Support offerings. The result is a digitally unified group.

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Ballance: Delivering Value for Farmers Through Innovation and Technology

Embracing advances in agriscience and technology, Ballance Agri-Nutrients Limited is a New Zealand-based farmer-owned co-operative. It is committed to helping farmers farm more productively, profitably, and sustainably through its range of science-based nutrient products, services, and advice. To unlock more value for its customers, Ballance needed to refresh its customer experience and increase engagement. Shifting its focus from volume to value, Ballance wanted to help farmers make informed management decisions with the right product, at the right time, in the right place, and in the right quantity. To get there, Ballance embarked on a multiyear cloud program of work to improve productivity, digital agility, and speed to market for its company and other organizations in its ecosystem, including fertilizer applicators and logistics providers.

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Chemanol: Streamlining processes and operations with a digital transformation

Methanol Chemicals Company, also known as Chemanol, is one of the world’s leading formaldehyde producers. It has an annual capacity of one million metric tons, exporting to more than 50 countries in upward of 21 industries. With such widespread operations, Chemanol needed to better integrate key business processes to gain a competitive edge in the global market. Recently, Chemanol set out to use resources within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to manufacture high-value specialty products and to become a major supplier for customers around the globe. To achieve these goals, the company knew it would need to simplify and optimize its existing technology landscape. Only then could Chemanol become an intelligent enterprise and begin automating business processes.

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How can business innovation help unify a complex ERP landscape in just four months?

Improving processes across 10 locations under a tight deadline - Innovative offerings from flue gas extraction and ventilation system leader M&G Group B.V. help customers transition to a cleaner future, including through hybrid solutions such as combining a central heating boiler with a heat pump. Numerous international acquisitions meant the plants producing these offerings effectively operated as individual companies with their own ERP setups and processes. In setting out to harmonize this environment, M&G Group faced a major challenge: it had to complete the transformation before the launch of a new integrated factory and start of peak season. M&G Group needed assistance to accelerate and optimize this critical implementation.

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How can optimized sales software increase customer engagement and create a competitive advantage?

Improving customer service across a product offering comprising more than 22,000 items - Pacific Coast Supply, LLC (“PCS”) is a large and diverse provider of building supply products in the western United States, with operations in 14 states. It needed a solution that would integrate with the SAP® ERP application to modernize its store operations. PCS turned to SAP partner DataXstream, LLC and the OMS+ cross channel, order management solution for assistance. OMS+ reimagines the user interface to reflect real life customer engagements and provides the platform for making SAP ERP the foundation of a true unified commerce strategy.

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PROFILINK: Establishing an intelligent enterprise through digital transformation

PROFILINK Ltd. is a leading polymer manufacturing company with a focus on profiles for architectural solutions. The company has been developing window solutions for more than 30 years. PROFILINK aims for long-term growth and expansion, recognizing the need for transparency, scalability, and vertical process integration driven by digital transformation. The company decided to embark on its journey to become an intelligent enterprise by implementing innovative solutions that could scale as it grows.

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A library of industry sector references and success stories from SAP detailing implementation, transformation and unifying operations can be found on SAP.com

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Accelerate decision-making with planning, analysis, and execution in one solution

Harness analytics to become an intelligent enterprise - To win in fast-moving markets, you need rapid access to information that enables you to take decisive action. With live integration to SAP S/4HANA®, the SAP® Analytics Cloud solution lets you monitor enterprise data in real time. You gain instantaneous, in-context, analytics- driven insights that help you accelerate decision-making, make better choices, and adapt faster to change. 

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SAP Intelligent Asset Management Solution Overview 

Adopt new collaborative processes and ‘products as a service’ business models across Networks. Manage asset health with Industry 4.0 for real time predictive maintenance and service. Closed Loop strategy, planning and execution processes to optimize Asset Performance Management. Synchronize maintenance and service across the enterprise for responsive customer care and supply chain resilience. Empower users with Mobile asset intelligence, work automation and safe, sustainable EH&S policies. Optimize maintenance and service with intelligent scheduling and crowd sourced resource management. 

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SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain

SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain full suite is a world-class solution for supply chain monitoring, sales and operations planning, demand management, inventory planning, and response and supply planning. Take advantage of powerful supply chain analytics, what-if simulation, alerts, and more – in the cloud.

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SAP Digital Manufacturing Portfolio 

Paperless production with intuitive user interfaces for production operators, automatic data collections and set machine parameters, thereby lowering cost, increasing productivity and quality. Design, distribute and dynamically control manufacturing shop floor activities enabling a smart factory. Shift and labor planning to ensure business operations with right qualifications. Production Order scheduling and dispatching considering labor, resource and maintenance constraints to plan operations and adopt to short term changes. Cross plant real-time analytics for manufacturing performance e.g. perfect order fulfilment, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, loss analysis along with machine data to identify improvement opportunities.

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SAP Insights - The Balance Sheet Blindspot - How Sustainability Affects Competitiveness & Profits

In a recent SAP Insights global survey of business professionals who are knowledgeable about their organization’s sustainability goals, actions, and reporting methods, respondents tell us that most of their companies are taking at least some steps toward greater environmental sustainability – and that the more effort companies put toward that goal, the more successful they expect their performance to be. In fact, we found a significant minority of respondents who say that environmental sustainability is already financially material* to their businesses and another group that believes it will become imminent in the near future.

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Closing the Green Gap - How the network effects take corporate sustainability from commitment to impact

The evidence is clear: sustainability drives business success. But actions speak louder than words, and too many companies take insufficient action to attain their goals. Success depends on reaching across business ecosystems to include suppliers, regulators, employees, and board leadership in sustainability efforts.

Research from Oxford Economics and SAP shows that sustainability is at a turning point. The global survey of nearly 2,000 executives reveals that sustainability is widely recognized as driving efficiency, building brand reputation, meeting the expectations of modern consumers and employees, and driving profitability. In addition, fully 63% of respondents indicate that their company has a formal  sustainability plan already in place.

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A Fresh Look at Industry 4.0 Arc Advisory Group white paper

This white paper takes a fresh look at the vision for Industry 4.0 and suggests ways to take advantage of the broad view and applications of the concept. Implementations of Industry 4.0 have mostly focused on using new technologies to provide economic benefits. The sustainability and social aspects have received less attention, despite their great potential in terms of adding economic value. To increase profitability and competitiveness, manufacturers should apply Industry 4.0 and make smarter products with higher added value by empowered workers and intelligent assets.

Industry 4.0 is not Industrial IoT, it is not only about technology, but is “the next stage in the organization and control of the entire value stream along the lifecycle of a product. This cycle is based on increasingly individualized customer wishes and ranges from the idea, the design, the development, the order, production, and delivery to the end customer through to recycling and related services.”

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Aberdeen Report - Cloud ERP, the Backbone Behind Finance & Accounting Agility 

While many disruptions brought about by the pandemic may seem like they’re in the past, lingering impacts like volatility in demand, residual revenue loss, and inflated energy costs are still affecting business’ bottom lines today. The issues that companies face are driven by uncertainty, which intensifies the demands on finance and accounting teams, to respond quickly with accurate insights into decision making. This report examines how cloud-based ERP solutions enable finance and accounting teams to streamline and improve their processes in response to market demands.

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How New Technologies Are Innovating Finance 

Modern finance and risk teams are embracing technology more quickly than in the past, thanks to innovations such as automation and artificial intelligence that help them achieve their goals and enhance  collaboration with their counterparts across the value chain of the business. Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of CFOs participating in a survey conducted by StrategicCFO360 and SAP in September 2021 say the influence of the finance function in corporate technology decisions has increased over the past year—and even more so at larger organizations ($1 billion + in annual revenues), where 81 percent of CFOs report having gained more influence over technology decisions during the same period.

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IDC Spotlight Report - Embedding Sustainability into Supply Chain Planning

According to the report, it appears the more advanced a company's supply chain and digital supply chain capabilities, the more focused the company is on sustainable operations. Which one follows the other could be debated, but the correlation is evident. What is less debatable are the intended outcomes of a focus on sustainable operations. According to IDC's Supply Chain Survey, the three top reasons to focus on sustainable operations are:

1. A reduction in waste and gain in efficiency. In an environment of rising costs, constraints, and disruptions, the opportunity may exist to leverage sustainable practices to improve efficiency and resiliency simultaneously.
2. A focus on understanding and managing resource consumption. The ability to manage consumption may offer significant opportunities beyond the standard aims of efficiency.
3. A desire to meet energy efficiency requirements and regulations. Manufacturers in some industries must focus to hit regulatory requirements.

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Intelligent ERP - Power to RISE Above Customer Expectations

In today’s hyper-connected operating environment where supply chain automation and managing customer experiences are all the rage, conventional ERP – as monolithic systems of record – is no longer fit-for-purpose. Aspiring market leaders now demand reliable contextual insights that can fuel split-second decisions and enable real time adaptation to market dynamics. Next-generation, cloud-based intelligent ERP systems respond to this need with an altogether more sophisticated and cognitive approach: one that blends machine learning, blockchain, and big data with a mobile-first perspective that places user experience front and center.

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Operating in the Digital World Requires a Focus on Cloud ERP to Reduce Mission Critical Risk

Organizations are growing more resilient, better able to navigate disruptions and fulfil customer requirements while meeting their overall business objectives. The cloud, innovation, intelligence, real-time data, and anywhere, anytime access are among the capabilities that organizations have embraced to help reduce mission-critical risk and enable more resiliency. However, companies still struggle with operational legacy applications because they only semi-automate business processes, utilize batch or near-real-time information and data, update infrequently (every few years versus quarterly), and are static underpinnings within their organizations. These static legacy systems make it harder to meet operational and customer commitments in the digital-first and real-time information world.

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SAP HANA - The Database for the Intelligent Enterprise

An intelligent enterprise requires a business-ready database that helps you find
the signal in the noise and unleash your data’s potential for better business
outcomes. SAP HANA® provides the next-generation data management foundation
for SAP® solutions. It also helps you develop applications that deliver solutions for the intelligent enterprise quickly.

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Sustainability - A Question of Supply Chain Planning

SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a cloud-based planning solution that helps businesses analyze, manage and optimize their supply chain. It provides a single platform to analyze, predict and simulate the entire value chain to anticipate changes and respond with a resilient and sustainable action plan. With SAP IBP, the customer is able to manage multiple end-to-end processes in real time, by combining planning functions such as sales and operations planning, demand planning, inventory management, and supply planning fully integrated into financial planning, manufacturing, logistics and the SAP Business Network for trading partners.

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The Transformation Mindset - Expanding Priorities for Leaders of Growing Companies

The usual factors involved in setting financial priorities ‒ for example, increasing efficiency, reducing cost, and improving brand recognition and reputation – rarely change, but a new survey from the SAP Insights research center shows that finance leaders are adjusting their approach to achieve those priorities. Survey participants revealed how they view current and emerging priorities, opportunities, and risks and how they transform their processes to elevate their future growth, profitability, and competitiveness.

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The Sustainability Imperative - A Value Chain Response to a Systemic Imperative 

News clippings from the world over illustrate the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation resulting from human activity. The global economy cannot sustain this level of growth without increased environmental impacts. This is a global, systemic problem that requires a global solution. While many industries contribute to the problem, products are central to the solution, products that are sustainable by design. Digital twins and modelling and simulation are key to understanding the changes needed early in the product lifecycle when they have the most impact. A digital thread spanning the value chain is essential to gathering the necessary data to achieve sustainability objectives and is increasingly enabled by business platforms that can create, gather, manage, and help leverage disparate data sources. This is becoming critical as extended producer responsibility (EPR) regimes become pervasive that require value chain reporting by manufacturers in most industries. Leading companies are embracing these changes and are finding ways to enhance revenues and improve their environmental record.

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Accenture: Harnessing SAP Technologies for Today's CFO

The threads connecting all three roles of today’s CFO—economic guardian, architect of business value and catalyst of digital strategy—are speed and adaptability. From a technology perspective, finance organizations can increase pace by starting
with a limited proof of concept, then scaling fast. Increasing maneuverability is also required, so an organization doesn’t become stuck in old ways of doing things. Leadership must encourage fresh thinking and innovation through new and powerful tools, enabled by cloud, to allocate resources with greater agility and mitigate risks
more effectively in a volatile environment.

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Deloitte: Turning Adversity into Advantage - Finance Paves the Way for Future Growth

As new types of spending, pricing and business model shifts, new regulatory requirements, remote work, and other changes forced rapid adaptations, organizations have looked to technology solutions that provide responsiveness, predictability, insights, and enhanced control, all without sacrificing the user’s experience. Many organizations seized the opportunity to reassess financial processes and adopt new solutions. Here, Deloitte and SAP share their perspectives on the major forces continuing to influence business, how
financial leaders are coping with these new realities, and the strategies they are adopting to help their organizations move forward stronger than ever.

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