SAP Product Footprint Management

Name: leverX Company
Brand: LeverX
Rating: 4.9 (114 reviews)

Calculate product footprints at scale, improve the CO₂ footprint, and digitize sustainability with SAP Product Footprint Management.

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LeverX is a certified partner of the SAP Center of Expertise. This accreditation ensures our unwavering commitment to upholding SAP's highest standards. Our mission is to deliver excellence, providing unparalleled support, and facilitating the seamless integration of SAP solutions into your business framework.

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To combat climate change, organizations worldwide strive to implement sustainable development initiatives. SAP Product Footprint Management is a cloud application running on the SAP Business Technology Platform that calculates the product's carbon footprint.

With SAP PFM, you can integrate sustainability data into business processes and control material movements from the integrated SAP services. Using its best-practice experience in the SAP PFM implementation, LeverX guides system optimization on a case-by-case basis. Assign emission factors to automatically determine the product's carbon footprint and contribute to a zero-waste economy with LeverX!

Key SAP PFM Capabilities

Sustainability is a challenge for the world and, therefore, for every single company. Without a healthy planet, there is no basis for continuity, long-term profit, and growth. One-fifth of the world’s carbon emissions comes from supply chains, which opens an immediate need for action.

SAP PFM can calculate footprints for any stage in the value chain, such as logistics, manufacturing, human resource management, technology development, and procurement. By analyzing the data, this solution can help companies manage their environmental impact.

Data Acquisition

The system collects master data from your operational business processes and SAP business applications, reusing data that is already available and validated. Calculate the footprints for each of your products by using the data of all the emissions that occur within your company and how they contribute to your final products.

Emission Factors Management

SAP PFM imports emission factors from product lifecycle assessment data to calculate footprints at scale across the entire product inventory. For now, data is either retrieved from SAP Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) database or reused from information provided by the LCA database. Ultimately, the plan is to use data provided directly from the suppliers.

Footprint Calculation

Using a pre-configured footprint calculation template, you can define the products to add to the calculation. This pairs each product with its emission factor (both purchased materials and raw materials for production), thus providing an overview of the carbon emission during a product lifecycle. SAP PFM also provides a built-in governmental carbon price calculation for better budgeting and planning.

Footprint Analytics

You can also use the quick filters available as a drop-down list to view the footprint results for a specific state. Each position in the table is based on the status of added semantic colors to individual footprint results to highlight their importance. The calculated footprints are integrated back into the end-to-end processes to visualize the pain points.

Footprint Integration

As the calculated footprints are integrated into the core processes of SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, you can monitor and visualize the KPIs for sustainability improvement. Such a targeted control allows for significant resource savings and increased transparency.

SAP S/4HANA Integration Scenarios

SAP PFM supports the integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud to import master data and transactional data. The integration is possible via SAP Integration Suite, SAP Process Integration, SAP Cloud Connector, and other SAP Cloud services.

Emission Factors Management

Smart interconnected services contribute to sustainability through digitalization. With the help of SAP Product Footprint Management, an organization can become an industry forerunner in reducing its emissions on the product level.

Footprint Calculation at Scale

SAP PFM reduces the effort and cost of calculating, analyzing, and reporting product footprints. With a simplified calculation method using the pre-configured templates, the solution also frees up internal resources for more value-adding work.

Steering & Analytics

SAP Sustainability Control Tower

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

SAP Product Footprint Management (PFM)

SAP Business Technology Platform

Footprint Inventory

Footprint Calculation Template

PFM Extractor

Mapping / Derivation

Sustainability Integration Component

Footprint Provisioning

Data Extractor

Idea to Market

Source to Pay

Plant to Fulfill

Lead to Cash

Finance

End To End Processes

Emission Factors

Other Data Sources

External Data Providers

Industries We Serve

Leveraging our experience with SAP together with diverse industrial expertise, we’ll help you select solutions that will drive meaningful, long-term value for your company.

Automotive

Industrial Manufacturing

Transportation & Logistics

Pharmaceuticals & Life Science

Why LeverX?

Proven track record

For over 20 years, we have helped businesses worldwide succeed with SAP. We’ve already completed 950+ projects for over 800 clients, including top names on the Fortune 500 list.

Industry experts

The LeverX team comprises professionals with hands-on knowledge in 30+ industries, including manufacturing, logistics, and oil  and gas.

SAP partnership

We implement SAP projects end-to-end  and collaborate with SAP on the development and enhancement of its existing solutions.

Quality and security track record

LeverX operates in compliance with international standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, and ISO 55001, ensuring reliability and quality in every project.

Investment in innovation

We actively integrate advanced technologies, such as Data Science, IoT, AI, Big Data, Blockchain, and others, to help clients efficiently address their business challenges.

Flexibility

Our team is available 24/7, which enables us to quickly deploy projects, maintain process transparency, and adapt each development phase to meet your specific requirements.

Implementation Roadmap

We follow the SAP Activate methodology, which breaks down the implementation of SAP Product Footprint Management into six essential stages:

Current Processes Evaluation: Assess existing business processes and identify the organization's needs.
Defining Technical Requirements: Create a detailed specification of the functional and technical needs of the new system.

Discover

Setting Goals and Objectives: Establish and agree on the goals to be achieved throughout the project.
Assembling the Project Team: Appoint team members and define their roles and responsibilities.
Project Plan Development: Create a comprehensive plan that outlines project phases, timelines, resources, and key performance indicators.
Budget Determination: Estimate and approve the budget.
Specifications Preparation: Develop the technical and functional specifications for the development team.

Prepare

Ensuring Business Requirements are Met: Check that SAP PFM aligns with business requirements and project objectives.
Data Validation: Verify the accuracy and compliance of the data.

Explore

Data Migration: Transfer data from existing systems to the new one.
System Configuration: Set up the solution according to requirements and specifications.
Customization: Develop additional features and modules, if the standard solution does not meet all needs.
Integrations: Configure SAP PFM to work with other IT systems and applications.

Realize

Testing: Perform functional, integration, regression, and load testing to ensure that all works correctly.
User Training: Organize sessions to help users become familiar with the new system.

Deploy

System Readiness Check: Verify that the system is ready for operational use.
Launch: Officially transition to active use of SAP PFM.
Ongoing Support: Continuously monitor solution performance to identify and resolve any issues.

Run

FAQ

How does SAP Product Footprint Management calculate carbon footprints?

SAP Product Footprint Management uses lifecycle assessment (LCA) methodologies to calculate the carbon footprint of products, considering factors like raw material sourcing, production processes, transportation, and disposal.

Can SAP Product Footprint Management be integrated with other SAP solutions?

Yes, SAP Product Footprint Management integrates with solutions like SAP EHS and SAP Supply Chain Management to track and manage the environmental footprint of products throughout their lifecycle.

Does SAP Product Footprint Management support sustainability reporting?

Yes, SAP Product Footprint Management includes tools for reporting sustainability metrics, helping businesses comply with regulatory requirements, and sharing environmental impact data with stakeholders.

How does SAP Product Footprint Management improve supply chain sustainability?

By providing insights into the environmental impact of products and materials used in the supply chain, SAP Product Footprint Management helps companies make more sustainable sourcing and production decisions.

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