SAP Green Ledger Is Out Now

Viola · ‎2024 Dec 16

SAP is committed to reduce its net carbon emissions by 2030.

Sustainability is one of the top-of-mind topics in today’s world. Embark with us on the journey towards a more sustainable future with the SAP Green Ledger! We’re happy to announce the General Availability (GA) and first public release of the SAP Green Ledger solution

The SAP Green Ledger is hosted on the SAP Business Technology Platform and combines your financial accounting with GHG emissions quantities for your business. By applying the financial principles of double-entry accounting to carbon costs, it provides a clear and quantifiable understanding of the carbon impact, from provisioning to delivery. It supports you in defining targeted emissions reduction actions to be taken at specific business units, cost centers, departments, locations, profit centers, or segments. It also provides you with auditable reports regarding sustainability standards and regulations.

Let’s take a closer look at our vision with this video.

The SAP Green Ledger solution comes with the following key capacities:

Support for integration with other systems

The broad benefits of this solution come in part from its ability to integrate with other systems. Among them are the following:

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, and SAP S/4HANA
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (this is optional, but it facilitates importing carbon data into SAP Green Ledger)

SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud (this is optional, but it allows for better reporting and analysing of carbon data)

Replication of corporate financial master data

You can import corporate master data from connected business systems like SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, thus aligning carbon accounting with the global corporate financial framework.

Carbon data collection and posting

SAP Green Ledger is the central hub for the accounting of greenhouse gas emissions data incurred by a company through its activities or its purchased goods and services. You can import this data seamlessly from SAP Sustainability Footprint Management import it from external sources by uploading spreadsheets, or enter it manually, and later post it to the journal at the entity level.

Carbon data export to group reporting

You can export carbon data from SAP Green Ledger to SAP Group Reporting Data Collection. From there, your data is mapped and imported to group reporting inSAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. The data is consolidated with financial data for group reporting and analysis.

Allocation management

You can allocate posted carbon quantities to the specific cost centers, profit centers, or accounts responsible for those emissions. This lets you quantify the global carbon and financial cost for specific departments, functional areas, locations, profit centers, segments, or units in your company.

Visualization and reporting

Thanks to SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud, you can visualize the data in multiple ways and create audit-quality reports to support data-driven decision makin This integration allows you to analyse your carbon data in comparison to your financial data. It allows for analytics on financial dimension in relation to financial figures, such as revenues, margins, or income.

Additionally, you can create internal reports and use them to further analyse your carbon data within SAP Green Ledger.

GHG Emission Planning

You can use your carbon data to provide actuals for GHG emission planning Based on these actuals emissions and their financial impact can be planned and simulated for future fiscal periods. For more information, see Blog Post: Driving Corporate Sustainability.

For more information regarding features and functions, see the Feature Scope Description.

SAP Green Ledger is your ticket towards more sustainability. Why don’t you join us on our sustainability journey? Learn more about SAP Green Ledger today!