SAP Sustainability Footprint Management
Decarbonize your value chain with ERP-centric carbon management.
Decarbonize your value chain with ERP-centric carbon management.
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM) helps organizations calculate their corporate and product carbon footprints (CCF & PCF) using actual SAP ERP data. The solution integrates seamlessly into your business processes, enabling data-driven decisions and scalable decarbonization. Whether you're just starting or ready to roll out globally, BearingPoint supports you with proven SAP SFM implementation expertise.
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1. Corporate and product footprint calculations
Assess your corporate carbon footprint across all GHG Protocol scopes (1, 2, and 3), and evaluate product carbon footprints across your portfolio, including materials, transportation, and production.
2. Integration for highly granular calculations
Pull in existing master and transactional data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud, integrate supplier data, third party sources, and facility energy flows for accurate footprint results.
3. Decarbonization driven by ERP
Integrate footprint results into key business processes like procurement, supplier management, finance, operations, planning, and reporting to enable data-driven, transparent, and sustainable decision-making.
How it works: |
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With SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM), you can efficiently measure, manage, and reduce your corporate and product carbon footprints (CCF & PCF) across all GHG Protocol scopes using real business data. The solution leverages existing ERP data and integrates carbon insights directly into your processes to enable impactful decarbonization.
Setup & Configuration
We configure SAP SFM in your SAP BTP environment, enabling standardized CCF and PCF calculations.
Data Integration & Footprint Calculation
We analyze, prepare, and load relevant business and emissions data to calculate carbon footprints based on actual ERP data – cradle-to-gate for products and company-wide for corporate reporting.
Emission Factor Management
We define where to use primary or secondary emission factors and, where available, connect SAP SDX for automated PCF data exchange. Optionally, we support the integration of high-quality LCA datasets from providers like ecoinvent and CarbonMinds to enhance data accuracy and completeness.
Validation & Documentation
We validate the calculation results, derive key sustainability KPIs, and ensure that SAP SFM makes the carbon footprint data consistently available within the system for analysis, reporting, and integration – in full alignment with the GHG Protocol.
Enablement & Rollout Planning
We train your key users, conduct a lessons-learned workshop, and help plan for scaling and future integration.
From strategy to execution – with deep SAP SFM implementation know-how
We combine in-depth sustainability knowledge with hands-on SAP delivery expertise. With dozens of successful SFM rollouts across industries, we turn complexity into tangible results.
Bridge Between Sustainability and IT
Our consultants speak both business and IT. We translate your sustainability goals into SAP-native solutions that integrate seamlessly with your landscape.
Fast results through a structured approach
Benefit from our proven methodology to accelerate your time-to-value – from first PCF/CCF calculations to decision-relevant insights.
Standardized, yet tailored to you
We ensure full alignment with GHG protocol, SAP standards, and your industry, while customizing the setup to match your data availability, system architecture, and process maturity.
From footprint to compliance and strategy
We help you translate your SAP SFM results into actionable insights for achieving your SBTi and net-zero targets. Beyond calculation, we support you in integrating footprint data into ESRs-compliant sustainability reporting and in identifying where the results can be used effectively, from strategy definition to disclosure across relevant reporting sections.
Expertise in emission factor management
We provide activity-based and spend-based emission factors and support you in applying primary or secondary data depending on supplier input and data availability.
Empowerment, not dependence
Through tailored enablement and knowledge transfer, we ensure your internal teams can confidently operate, scale, and improve the solution long after go-live.
Sustainability as a business driver
We help you move beyond reporting, turning footprint transparency into operational improvements, cost reductions, and competitive advantage.
Connected SAP sustainability solutions
Sustainability control tower, SAP sustainability data exchange, or SAP green ledger, to build a cohesive and future-ready carbon management system. This enables you to use calculated footprint data from SFM for enterprise-wide steering, ESG reporting, and continuous performance monitoring – all within your SAP landscape.
With BearingPoint, you don’t just implement a tool – you implement a carbon strategy.
Reach out to our experts and explore how we can help you operationalize carbon insights across your value chain.
Get in touchTo support strategic decision-making around sustainability technology investments, a leading manufacturer of industrial equipment engaged in a structured Proof of Concept (PoC) with our team. The aim was to explore the value and capabilities of SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM) for Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculations within a complex, multi-site manufacturing environment.
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| As part of the Proof of Concept, the client was provided with a temporary SAP SFM tenant hosted by our team for non-productive use. Selected product and emissions data were used to perform initial cradle-to-gate PCF calculations. Throughout the process, our experts conducted hands-on working sessions with key users to demonstrate SAP SFM functionalities, data flows, and how the solution supports GHG Protocol-compliant calculations across Scope 1, 2, and 3. |
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| The PoC enabled the client to assess the system’s fit, data readiness, and usability in a realistic setting. It provided internal stakeholders with a solid understanding of how SAP SFM can support operational sustainability and reporting requirements. Ultimately, the PoC offered a low-risk opportunity to explore SAP SFM’s potential, helping the client build a solid business case for future expansion. |
A globally leading trailer manufacturer partnered with our team to pilot the implementation of SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM) and SDX as part of their long-term decarbonization strategy.
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As part of the pilot project, our experts set up and configured SAP SFM in the client’s system landscape and supported the definition of a tailored carbon management approach aligned with international standards such as the GHG Protocol. The project included:
A technical go-live was achieved, allowing the client to use SAP SFM productively in a controlled scope and to integrate first results into internal sustainability and reporting processes. |
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The pilot provided the client with clear insights into the capabilities of SAP SFM and SDX for both calculations – PCF and CCF – including data requirements, integration workflows, and reporting logic. It served as a proof of applicability for the client's industry-specific needs and supported their ambition to meet science-based targets (SBTi) and achieve a Net-Zero emissions strategy. Based on the results, we jointly designed a target system architecture and global rollout strategy, enabling the client to scale SAP SFM and SDX across business units, product lines, and regions as part of their long-term decarbonization roadmap. |
A globally operating manufacturer of construction materials partnered with our team to implement SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM) at scale. The objective: to establish a harmonized solution for calculating both Product Carbon Footprints (PCF) and the Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF) in alignment with global climate targets and reporting requirements.
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Following a successful pilot, our experts supported the client through a global rollout of SAP SFM, including full configuration and localization for multiple regions. Key activities included:
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| With SAP SFM fully integrated and globally deployed, the client now benefits from automated, standardized carbon footprint calculations across all relevant operations. By aligning and enhancing ERP data for sustainability use cases, the solution delivers reliable, GHG Protocol-compliant results for both internal performance tracking and external disclosure. The project laid the foundation for data-driven decarbonization, increased transparency, and long-term alignment with Net-Zero goals – fully embedded into operational workflows. |
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM) is an SAP cloud-based carbon accounting solution designed to help companies calculate and manage their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It enables the determination of both corporate carbon footprints and product-level footprints based on actual business data from ERP systems, such as material flows, energy consumption, and logistics.
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM) integrates seamlessly with SAP S/4HANA and other SAP or non-SAP data sources to enable automated, data-driven carbon accounting.
By embedding sustainability metrics like carbon footprints into core business processes, SAP SFM allows companies to assess environmental impacts at a product or purchasing level.
Yes, SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM) is designed for global scalability and can be deployed across multiple sites, product lines, and business units worldwide.
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM) supports the calculation and management of Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions in alignment with the GHG Protocol.
At the product level, SAP SFM focuses on cradle-to-gate footprints, enabling companies to assess emissions from raw material extraction up to the point the product leaves the factory.
At the corporate level, it provides comprehensive organization-wide carbon footprinting, helping organizations meet regulatory and voluntary reporting requirements.
The solution can be extended with external data sources and emission factors to support deeper Scope 3 category coverage as needed.
We combine deep SAP implementation expertise with specialized sustainability and carbon accounting know-how. This unique combination enables us to deliver end-to-end support across the entire lifecycle of SAP SFM initiatives – from initial proof of concept (PoC) and data integration, to global rollouts, regulatory alignment, and user enablement.
Our cross-functional teams ensure that technical delivery is aligned with sustainability goals, business strategy, and evolving regulatory requirements such as CSRD, ESRS, and the GHG Protocol.
As a trusted SAP partner, we help organizations embed sustainability into core business processes – efficiently, reliably, and at scale.
