SAP Green ledger brings financial-grade precision to your carbon accounting. Designed to work natively within your SAP ERP, it enables organizations to capture CO₂ data at the transaction level—across procurement, production, and logistics—just like financial data. This real-time, auditable visibility supports GHG protocol compliance, CSRD/ESRS readiness, and internal carbon steering.

With BearingPoint’s implementation expertise, your organization can move beyond estimation and build a reliable foundation for sustainability-linked business decisions, carbon budgeting, and ESG reporting.

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What it is:
  1. Captures emissions at transaction level
    CO₂ data is logged in parallel to financial entries (e.g. production orders, procurement, logistics).
     
  2. Uses actual data instead of averages
    Enables more accurate, product- and process-specific carbon accounting.
     
  3. Integrated with SAP S/4HANA
    Built into your ERP system for seamless data flows and process alignment.
     
  4. Works with SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM)
    Pulls product and process-level emissions into carbon ledgers.
     
  5. Supports Scope 1, 2 & 3 accounting
    Covers direct, indirect, and supply chain emissions – aligned with GHG Protocol.
     
  6. Enables carbon budgeting & internal carbon pricing
    Supports decarbonization strategies and strategic decision-making.

How it works:
  • Foundation for carbon accounting based on existing and trusted financial processes and structures.
     
  • Financial quantification of carbon impact and the integration into operational decision-making processes, financial reporting, and overall strategic business decisions.
     
  • Leverage rigor and trust associated with financial reporting for carbon accounting and reporting, making carbon accounting traceable, accountable, and auditable. 
     
  • ​Make strategic decisions by aligning carbon and financial plan and actual data. 

 

Benefits from SAP Green ledger:

  • Track carbon like cost: 
    Gain real-time, finance-grade visibility into your CO₂ emissions – directly linked to your business transactions. We help you embed carbon tracking into cost flows, enabling transparency down to the product and process level.
     
  • Base decisions on actuals, not estimates: 
    Use real operational data to identify true emission drivers and decarbonization levers. We ensure accurate data mapping across your systems to replace averages with actuals – for better decisions.
     
  • Integrate carbon into your business logic: 
    Align emissions tracking with financials, cost centers, and products – all within your SAP system. With our SAP expertise, we connect sustainability KPIs directly to controlling and procurement logic.
     
  • Strengthen ESG reporting:
    Feed high-quality, finance-grade carbon data into SAP Analytics Cloud for integrated performance tracking. We configure analytics models and dashboards tailored to CSRD, SBTi, and internal reporting needs.
     
  • Scale across your organization:
    •Deploy a future-proof, ERP-native architecture that grows with your sustainability ambitions. We support scalable rollouts across business units, regions, and legal entities.
     
  • Seamlessly integrated into your SAP landscape: 
    SAP Green Ledger connects with key systems across your SAP environment:
    • SFM provides product- and process-level emissions data.
    • S/4HANA supplies financial and operational transactions (e.g. procurement, production orders).
    • SAP Analytics Cloud enables detailed, real-time analysis and ESG reporting.
    • This end-to-end integration ensures consistent, auditable carbon data across all business processes.

We ensure this end-to-end setup works seamlessly – from data flow to governance and user enablement.

Turn carbon into a managed business metric

Turn carbon into a managed business metric

Get in touch with our experts to explore how SAP green ledger can transform your emissions tracking and ESG reporting — directly in your SAP ERP.

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  • Use case: Carbon and financial accounting get sustainable with SAP Green ledger

    Embedding carbon into ERP – SAP green ledger in action

    A global manufacturer implemented SAP Green Ledger to bring carbon accounting to the same level of accuracy and control as financial reporting. By integrating CO₂ emissions data directly into their SAP S/4HANA system, the company was able to:

    • Track emissions at transaction level (e.g., production orders, procurement).
    • Replace estimates with actual, auditable CO₂ data.
    • Link carbon data to financial KPIs such as CO₂ per revenue or per product.
    • Align with GHG Protocol and prepare for CSRD/ESRS reporting.
    • Enable internal carbon steering by treating CO₂ as a "second currency".

    This approach empowered sustainability and finance teams to collaborate around a shared data foundation – turning carbon performance into a manageable, reportable business dimension.

    Carbon and financial accounting get sustainable with SAP Green Ledger

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Related CO₂ software implementation SAP solutions:

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  • SAP Sustainability Footprint Management

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  • SAP Sustainability Data Exchange

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  • SAP Sustainability Control Tower

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  • SAP S/4HANA Design for Carbon Management

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