Combining SAP Product Carbon Footprint Analytics with SAP Integrated Business Planning?

[ivan_kostakev]

Dear SAP Climate 21 team,

I find your new initiative very compelling and followed the demo with great interest.

When looking at the "Climate 21 Solution Overview", I don't see the "Plan-to-Produce" part, hence I was wondering if there is any plan to integrate the data collected through "SAP Product Carbon Footprint Analytics" into a planning solution such as SAP Integrated Business Planning? This would allow to take into account carbon footprint (e.g. CO2e) information during all phases of Supply Chain Planning, and thus aligning the company's sustainability strategy with the actual long-, mid- and short-term plans.

I see on the roadmap that by 2022 you are planning to "integrate the solution into Operations & Supply Chain", not sure if this is related to IBP too?

Best regards,
Ivan Kostakev

[lingaiahvanam · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You are right as per Climate 21 Solution Overview 2022 road map integrate into Operations & Supply Chain as part of this solution.

It is difficult to get the details of integrate into Operations & Supply Chain functionalities.

Best Regards,

Lingaiah

[CButzlaff]

If you speak about the current (2020) product carbon footprint analytics solution PCFA, it is based on SAC and as the name states, an analytics solution. Here I can analyse the carbon footprint of my product and also make the main contributor to the carbon footprint visible (for example, which raw material, which production activity contributes how much to the overall footprint) As Jan is pointing out, there is a separate demo in IBP, where I could plan and maybe optimize the product carbon footprint of a product. In IBP I could simulate different raw materials or choose a different production plant with a lower footprint and see what the means from a fulfillment perspective.

In PCFA we get all the required carbon footprint equivalents (for raw material, activities etc.) into one place. This should be the "master data" source for these kind of data for IBP. If this is the case we could evaluate a product carbon footprint in PCFA, but plan and optimize a carbon footprint in IBP. If anyone would be interested in that use case, please get in contact with me.

[JWRouwhorst]

there seems to be a bottum up approach S/4-> SAC and to roll-in later IBP functions. There is a seperate demo on Carbon footprint in IBP locally (dee demo store, alexandra)

[ivan_kostakev]

Hi Jan-Willem,

Thanks for the reply. Could you please be more specific about where to find this demo?

KR, Ivan