Climate action is top of mind for many companies. The pressure to reduce CO2 emissions is coming from all directions – investors, customers, and regulators. But how can leaders safeguard earnings without CO2 data transparency? How can they show competitiveness if no benchmarks exist? And how can they steer the right action in the face of such uncertainty?
To help deal with such complex questions, SAP launched Climate 21, an initiative to help customers minimize the CO2 footprint of their products, operations, and supply chains.
With Climate 21, we are embedding sustainability metrics as a new dimension into analytical and transactional applications to enable intelligent enterprises to minimize CO2 emissions across entire value chains, from cradle to grave. This will enable business leaders to act on the insights, ultimately creating transparency and the ability to initiate climate-friendly buying decisions.
In this course, you’ll learn why climate action is relevant for your business. You’ll understand how SAP’s Climate 21 initiative can help your company to minimize its CO2 footprint and you’ll be introduced to the first solution of the Climate 21 initiative, SAP Product Carbon Footprint Analytics. We’re also interested in your feedback, so you’ll get the chance to let us know which of the requirements specific to your company SAP should address through the Climate 21 initiative.
Week 1: Climate Action – The Challenge
Week 2: Climate 21 Initiative
Week 3: Product Carbon Footprint
Week 4: Final Exam
No requirements
Eric Storrer has been with SAP for several months, working in a student position in the Solution Management and Go-to-Market team for Sustainability and Climate 21. Eric contributed greatly to this openSAP course, creating content with the experts – product managers, consultants, and subject matter experts – developing slides, and writing test questions.
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Thomas Saueressig is a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. He leads the SAP Product Engineering board area and has global responsibility for all business software applications. This includes all functional areas from product strategy and management to product development and innovation, as well as cloud operations and support.
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Bettina Zedlitz is a senior director for Sustainability and Climate 21 within the SAP S/4HANA Go-to-Market and Solution Management organization. Over the last 5 years she has been driving innovation for SAP S/4HANA, focusing on all aspects of the cloud.
As SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Daniel Schmid has been globally responsible for sustainability at SAP SE since 2014. He is a member of the steering committee of econsense, a forum for sustainable development of German business.
Priti Prabhoo leads product definition for the Climate 21 initiative. She is an experienced product leader, with a proven track record as product owner in large and complex enterprise application development environments such as ERP cloud transformation. She shares her knowledge and expertise in talks and by joining initiatives to support others in their careers.
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Gunther Rothermel is SVP and head of SAP S/4HANA Sustainability, leading the sustainability product unit of SAP. This includes new initiatives like “Climate 21” for carbon footprint management, circular economy, and sustainability reporting, as well as existing products like Environment, Health and Safety and product compliance.
Stephan Müller is a project manager at SAP, focusing on customer and partner collaboration for Climate 21 and other sustainability solutions. Prior to this role, Stephan spent many years providing consulting services for customers all around the world and co-innovating with them on new products.
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Stefan Hack is the global head of R&D and Sustainability for SAP Services. He is passionate about innovation and sustainability – two important pillars of SAP's success – and is deeply committed to making SAP the partner of choice for sustainable digital transformation.
He has several patents for inventions for SAP and is a published author in the fields of information technology and sustainability.
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