SAP’s Solutions for Sustainability Brief — DO NOT PUBLISH

This white paper from SAP explores how BusinessObjects Sustainability Performance Management can help you manage economic, social, and environmental risks and opportunities to increase profitability.

From the introduction to the white paper:

Sustainability is a rising priority on the CEO agenda as management, investors, customers, and employees all try to understand the social and environmental implications of the company’s financial and operational decisions. This is especially critical for companies in highly regulated and brand-conscious industries. Leading companies realize sustainability is not about “going green” for the sake of going green. To be feasible, sustainability practices and processes must work in concert with core business goals and strategies to improve enterprise profitability. In the end, companies need to protect their brand, manage risk, and find opportunities to improve returns.

Sustainability Challenges and Opportunities

While the priority given to sustainability has never been higher, responding to its challenges has never been more difficult. Companies that try to establish sustainability programs discover a number of unique obstacles, including:

• A proliferation of different sustainability standards and guidelines

• A lack of reliable information about the company’s sustainability performance

• An inability to align sustainability performance with the other data and processes management uses to run the business