SAP Sustainability Data Exchange (SDX) is your secure, scalable platform for sharing product carbon footprint (PCF) data with customers and suppliers across your value chain. Fully aligned with standards like GHG Protocol, Catena-X, and Pact, SDX supports both regulatory compliance and ESG transparency. It also integrates seamlessly with SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM), enabling automatic, real-time data flows into your internal carbon accounting systems.

With BearingPoint as your implementation partner, you gain expert support for supplier onboarding, change management, and system configuration — all tailored to your specific sustainability goals.

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What it is:
  1. Strategy development & stakeholder engagement
    We work with you and your key stakeholders to design a customized supplier enablement framework, including strategy, communication, and training guidelines tailored to your supplier landscape.
     
  2. Supplier prioritization
    We support you in prioritizing suppliers based on your company’s strategy and targets, as well as supplier maturity levels or emissions intensity.
     
  3. Flight plan & rollout planning
    Together, we define a high-level supplier enablement roadmap (“flight plan”) with a wave-based rollout approach.
     
  4. Communication strategy & key messaging
    We develop a clear and compelling communication strategy, including high-level key messages to effectively engage your suppliers.
     
  5. Technical integration
    We provide hands-on support for the setup and integration of sap sustainability data exchange (SAP SDX) — both internally and in collaboration with your suppliers.

How it works:
  • Request and answer:
    As a buyer contact suppliers and request them to provide actual carbon footprint data (PCF); as a supplier reply to requests with actual PCF information.
     
  • Update previously sent PCF:

    Enable proactive data sharing of new updated versions of PCF values after having a request answer flow completed.
    The updates can be sent to multiple (verified) parties at a time.

  • Push PCF:
    Enable proactive data sharing of actual product carbon footprints (PCF) across value chains with multiple verified parties at a time, without a (previous) request.
     

Benefits from SAP Sustainability Data Exchange:

  • Integrated data flow to SAP sustainability footprint management (SFM)
    When used in combination, SAP SDX and SAP SFM enable the automatic forwarding of supplier-provided product carbon footprints (PCFs), ensuring that primary emissions data is consistently available in real time for both transactional and analytical processes.
     
  • Tailored guidance and expert support
    We offer hands-on support for change management, system integration, and supplier onboarding, enabling a smooth rollout even in complex supplier networks.
     
  • Proven expertise in SAP SDX implementation
    Our consultants bring deep experience from cross-industry SAP SDX implementations. We accelerate your onboarding through proven best practices and technical expertise.
     
  • Structured supplier enablement
    We deliver a prioritized onboarding roadmap and step-by-step communication materials for your suppliers, ensuring clarity and efficiency at every stage.
     
  • Pragmatic, scalable methodology
    Our approach is designed for practical execution – easy to scale, replicate, and adapt to your supplier base.
     
  • Compliance with leading industry standards
    We ensure full alignment with frameworks such as Catena-X, GHG Protocol, and TFS PCF Guidelines. As an active Catena-X member with real-world implementation experience, BearingPoint ensures these standards are applied effectively and operationally.
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Make supplier carbon data exchange part of your ESG strategy

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  • Use Case: Enabling product carbon footprint (PCF) exchange for a German trailer manufacturer

    We supported a leading german trailer manufacturer in the enablement and onboarding of a pilot supplier for the exchange of product carbon footprints (pcfs) through SAP sustainability data exchange (SAP SDX).

    Watch the Catena-X carbon data exchange demo case


    Our scope included:

    • Setup of a tailored RACI flow diagram
      Created a customer-specific RACI model, including best practices for efficiently requesting pcfs from suppliers – ensuring clear roles and responsibilities across all parties.
       
    • End-to-end pilot supplier onboarding
      Managed the full onboarding process, including the technical setup, system configuration, and secure PCF data exchange via SAP SDX.
       
    • Pact-compliant data guidance
      Delivered a detailed walkthrough of all mandatory and optional pcf data fields as defined by the pact framework v2 — ensuring supplier compliance and data quality.
       
    • Integrated implementation with SAP SFM
      Supported the alignment of SAP SDX with SAPsustainability footprint management (SFM) to ensure a consistent data flow from supplier PCF inputs into internal carbon footprint calculations — enabling end-to-end integration within the sustainability system landscape.

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