Nuria Fernández
Environmental management has become a central focus of modern business strategy. Not only because of current legal obligations, but also for the company’s reputation, sustainable investment and operational continuity. SAP has developed an ecosystem of tools to digitize, automate and optimize environmental management.
Solutions from the SAP EHSM Environment Management, SAP Product Compliance and SAP Sustainability families enable companies not only to comply with regulations, but also to anticipate regulatory changes, minimize impact and verify environmental commitment.
Main environmental functionalities in SAP
- Emissions and Waste ManagementSAP EHSM allows you to collect, analyze and report data on air emissions (Scope 1,2 3), discharges and hazardous/non-hazardous waste, ensuring compliance with regulations such as ADR, RID, IPPC, etc.
- Environmental compliance assessmentYou can periodically evaluate the degree of legal compliance, help manage environmental audits and trigger automatic alerts for non-conformities or deviations.
- Monitoring of environmental indicatorsSAP allows you to configure and visualize environmental indicators such as energy consumption, CO₂ emissions, waste generation per unit produced or environmental efficiency indicators.
- Legal and regulatory product compliance managementWith SAP Product Compliance you can control environmental impact from product design, ensuring compliance with regulations such as REACH, RoHS, WEEE or GHS.
Challenges in environmental management
- International regulatory compliance: Companies must adapt to regulations such as REACH, CLP, RoHS, SCIP, IPPC, CSRD and green taxonomy, which requires a platform capable of integrating and reporting under different legal frameworks.
- Transparency and traceability of environmental data: Pressure from investors and consumers makes it necessary to report reliable and traceable data. SAP makes it possible to centralize this information, reducing audit risks.
- Digitization of environmental processes: Many organizations are still working with spreadsheets or disconnected software. Digitization with SAP makes it possible to integrate data from multiple sources and improve efficiency.
- Lack of automation in data management. (collection, curation, contextualization, semantics, usage)
- Environmental management in the supply chain: SAP allows extending control to suppliers, collecting carbon footprint or material compliance data from the source.
- Lack of maturity of the source management systems or origin of the base data to feed the reports and indicators.
SAP provides a complete ecosystem of tools that enable companies to manage their environmental performance in a digital, integrated and strategic way. Digital transformation in environment not only enables you to comply with regulations, but also to anticipate, innovate and lead in sustainability.
The combination of solutions from the SAP EHSM, Product Compliance, Sustainability and Analytics Cloud product families enables you to turn environmental data into value – for people, for the planet and for business.
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