This course was retired in September, 2023.

Course Summary

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.

Here is what some participants are saying about the course:

• “My company is doing some management consulting to SAP customers and lately we are seeing more and more interest in Sustainability and Carbon Footprint. As such, this course has been very helpful with giving me some insights on SAP's latest offerings in that area.” Read the original post

• “For people that are new to sustainability, this is an interesting and unique training program as it goes well beyond the theoretical of most intro level courses and applies a real-world solution (PCFA) which is extremely commendable.” Read the original post

• “Great that SAP is taking the direction of embedding sustainability as a new dimension of success along the core value chain processes! … Course was very well structured, visual and covered all dimensions: strategic objectives, customer case, demo, services ...” Read the original post

• “I am loving the way the course content is being arranged. It is really good quality material and the course is very comprehensive.” Read the original post

• “The course does a great job of communicating SAP's vision and progress.” Read the original post

• “I like the approach used in introducing the system, the simplicity of the presentations, and most importantly SAP's advocacy for climate action.” Read the original post

Course Characteristics

• Starting from: January 19, 2021, 09:00 UTC. (What does this mean?)
  
• Duration: 3 weeks (2-3 hours per week)
  
• Final exam: February 9-17, 2021, 09:00 UTC
  
• Course language: English
  
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Course Content

Week 1: Climate Action – The Challenge
Week 2: Climate 21 Initiative
Week 3: Product Carbon Footprint
Week 4: Final Exam

Target Audience

• Business decision makers and business strategists
  
• Finance experts and decision makers
  
• Sustainability experts and professionals involved in their company’s sustainability effort
  
• Business consultants and application consultants
  
• Everyone interested in sustainability and carbon footprint reduction
  

Course Requirements

No requirements

About Further Content Experts

Eric Storrer

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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