SAP C_BCSSS_2502 Positioning SAP Sustainability Solutions as part of SAP Business Suite Exam Practice Test

By enabling businesses to create a story that most enhances their green story.

By accelerating processes to save time and reduce risks associated with ESG reporting.

By amplifying expertise through predictive insights and recommendations.

By automating complex and time-consuming tasks.

By ‘outsourcing’ all sustainability activities to AI and allowing employees to concentrate on their core business.

Corporate Energy (Carbon to Clean) identifies operational contexts for energy transition.

Sustainable Design (Idea to Market) to support ethical and circular product design.

Integrated Finance (Record to Report) with ESG data aligned to financial KPIs.

Procurement (Source to pay) to procure ethically with transparency.

Hire to Retire to implement new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategies.

Focus solely on cost reduction and efficiency strategies

Comprehensive Integration of Sustainability Capabilities into SAP Business Suite applications

A focus on quality over quantity of product offerings

Exclusively manual implementation process

Lower motivation: It has been shown that dedicated solutions are associated with increased employee engagement in contrast to spreadsheets.

Higher costs: Increased total cost of ownership (TCO) due to the need to maintain separate systems for ESG and financial reporting & steering.

Complex auditing: Limited data lineage increases audit costs.

Data quality issues: Poor data alignment with financial processes and master data.

Disconnected processes: Separation of the data lake from business processes supports the independence of the sustainability officer.

Chemicals

Industrial manufacturing

Professional services

Consumer products

Finance and banking

Provides a data lake and master data management capabilities for the different sustainability products.

Shares actual product carbon footprints with business partners across the value chain, enhances data accuracy, and supports regulatory compliance.

Identifies and reuses common data that is needed in overlapping regulatory regimes and jurisdictions.

Shares data and product specification details between sustainable product designers to ensure a product designed according to circular economy principles.

SAP Green Ledger

SAP Responsible Design and Production

SAP Sustainability Footprint Management

SAP Sustainability Data Exchange

Most major innovation has been done and solutions are becoming commoditized. Therefore, SAP competes mainly on price and not capabilities.

Pure-play vendors are just starting to enter the market, and SAP has an opportunity through integrated business processes and data, and also its extensive AI portfolio.

The sustainability solutions market is still developing, with significant potential for growth and evolution. This stage of maturity provides SAP with substantial opportunities to shape and dominate the market.

The sustainability solutions market has minimal competition, as SAP’s competitors are still evaluating their response to growing regulation.

SAP makes all its sustainability solutions open-source to allow for customers and citizen developers to add to their capabilities.

SAP makes sure that all sales interactions are carried out via MS Teams/Zoom to show that SAP ‘walks the talk’ when going through the sales cycle.

SAP's sustainability solutions are tightly integrated into its cloud ERP system.

SAP has a holistic view of sustainability that goes beyond mere ESG reporting.

SAP solutions come with built-in AI features, helping businesses automate sustainability processes.