Sustainability has become a top priority
Sustainability has evolved into an urgent business imperative. Its value extends far beyond compliance reporting and developing an audit-ready stakeholder response. It can unlock broader financial and operational business benefits – from protecting value at risk and building resilience to capitalising on new commercial opportunities and strengthening competitive advantage. That’s why it’s time for every organisation to embrace sustainability.
“Failure to adapt to the rapidly changing sustainability risks and regulations is a missed opportunity for businesses. By implementing the right data and technology strategy, organisations can start to see the hidden potential for value creation.”
Will Jackson-MoorePwC Global Sustainability LeaderSustainability isn’t like other business requirements
Sustainability is unlike any challenge encountered before. Its breadth and depth are unprecedented, because it touches every single part of the organisation. It calls for a new breed of subject matter expertise. And it requires you to gather and report on information that you’ve never previously collected, then use that data for compliance reporting and business steering.
All of this means that sustainability demands a deep transformation of compliance and risk management, while unlocking new ways of doing business. It requires new capabilities, built on digital solutions, which are key to managing the data required to generate insights and gain competitive advantage in this new frontier.
Putting sustainability at the centre of corporate strategy also revives the classic theme of “measure what you manage”. When strategy moves to execution, backed by a solid business case, this is where sustainability becomes operationalised and where technology becomes an enabler for driving returns.
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PwC and SAP: Sustainability
Technology innovation is strengthening data and reporting capabilities
Today, most businesses are at the start of their journeys in learning to collect, process and disclose sustainability-related information. This means that introducing even relatively straightforward enhancements and standards can have a significant impact on data and process reliability. Further action is urgently needed, as investors are increasingly eager to understand organisations’ impact on the environment and how sustainability impacts their balance sheets. Better data and reporting are essential to generating clearer insights for decision-making.
Why SAP should sit at the heart of your sustainable transformation
At PwC, we believe navigating sustainability-related financial risk and opportunities, starting with climate, will be increasingly important for organizations. Sustainability needs to be embedded into reporting and the wider strategic goals of an organization, which requires equal rigour in data management, systems and process design. Great strategic importance is placed on assurance and materiality (as required by regulations in many jurisdictions). This approach supports compliance and gives confidence in data-driven decision-making, which in turn makes SAP ERP and finance-centricity key success factors in the long run.
Your SAP ERP sits at the heart of your operations, making it the ideal starting point for embedding sustainability into business as usual. We help you leverage insights from any initial data and gap assessments as part of reporting readiness. And we put SAP ERP and finance at the core of your efforts to unlock greater value from sustainability reporting, risk management and product design. Around this, we interweave ready-to-use data models and automated workflows, plus AI, cloud and digital capabilities. Our approach gives you the flexibility to meet all your internal and external sustainability-related demands, while getting the most out of your investment in SAP.
“If you run your business on SAP, the best approach is using your existing and newly available SAP solutions to create a robust, underlying, holistic data model for all sustainability-related information. You can then slice and dice the data in different ways to comply with any regulation you face, to generate management reports and to steer your business.”
Gunther DütschSustainability Services & Climate Change, Partner, PwC GermanyWhy PwC is the right partner to help
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How we support clients
We have a strong partnership with SAP, covering everything from co-innovation and roadmap alignment to joint solution design and go-to-market. Together, we bring you the best of two leading global organisations.
We can support you with SAP technology maturity assessments, architecture design and data quality reviews for all sustainability requirements – whether that’s reporting, steering, helping you on your journey to the Green Ledger or any other use case. We can also help you configure and implement SAP’s core sustainability solutions such as SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM); SAP Sustainability Control Tower (SCT); SAP Responsible Design and Production (RDP), SAP S/4HANA for product compliance, SAP Environment, Health and Safety Management (EHS); and SAP Green Token.
We can also help you configure core SAP modules which are critical across functions within your organization, which include Material Master, Ariba, Success Factors and Management of Change.
Our proven rapid implementation approach, powered by AI and global delivery models, is designed to accelerate projects of all sizes and scopes: proof of concept, minimum viable product or full technical go-live. We can also support at any stage of your transformation, whether you’re working on an ongoing SAP S/4HANA migration, following up on a sustainability gap and materiality analysis, or just getting started with data modelling and management.
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How are PwC supporting clients with their sustainability challenges? Hear the thoughts Michael Rasch and Neil Morton who talk to PwC's innovation in this space, a recent award win and collaboration with SAP.
Plus, we offer specific solutions to help you comply with regulations in the countries where you operate. These include:
- PwC’s award-winning CSRD reporting tool helps you comply with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and International Sustainability Standard Board (ISSB).
- PwC Germany’s award-winning “Check your value chain” solution helps you comply with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) and Germany’s Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (SCDDA).
- PwC Germany’s EU Taxonomy solution enables you to analyse your economic activities, support eligible alignment processes and calculate KPIs for revenue, CapEx and OpEx.
- PwC Germany’s Climate Excellence tool gives you the insights you need to manage climate-related financial risk.
- PwC US’s Leading with Insights enables you to start harnessing the power of the latest SAP analytics solutions – including SAP Analytics Cloud – in real time, even before your SAP S/4HANA go-live.
You can start using our solutions even if you haven’t yet moved to the cloud, RISE with SAP or GROW with SAP. No matter your requirements or technology stack, we’re here to help you every step of the way.
