Welcome to my 3rd blog as promised .This blog post is on SAP Product Footprint Management. In today’s rapidly changing world, organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of integrating sustainability into their operations
In this series I will publish blog on following products,
SAP Product Footprint Management is a new portfolio of sustainability-specific business applications that deliver transparency and measurement capability across the supply chain, allowing companies to move toward lower carbon emissions and more sustainable operations
Here I will be discussing how to implement SAP PFM for your organization based on the
To Begin with there are few pre-requisites which need to be checked Prior to implementation of the SAP Product Footprint Management with integration to SAP S/4HANA On Premise
Process Flow to Calculate Product Footprint
Figure: Process Flow
Import Master Data :
Company’s master data is the basis for calculating your corporate and product footprints. It contains the essential information about your company such as plants, products, and suppliers.
Below is the sequence is which the master data need to be imported
Reason for the sequence is the without that the configuration import would fails for example without Valuation area plant import would fail as the configuration of Plant is depended on it . Another example would be dependency of the Product group on the Product type .
Figure: Import of Master data
Manage Inventory Footprint Scope :
This actually define the boundary of the footprint Calculation and also limits the scope of the transactional business data import from SAP S/4HANA system.
Figure: Defining the boundary of Carbon Footprint Calculation
Import Business Transaction :
Source system data such as goods receipts, goods issues, transfers, and returns these becomes the basis of carbon footprint calculation which are imported for a specified timeframe.
This imported data are verified automatically against the master data imported in the previous step .
Figure: Importing Transactional Data
Manage Emission Factor :
Based on this Emission factor the carbon footprint of the product is calculated as this would contribute to the product which we have procured from supplier . Important thing is 1 Product can be procured form multiple country in such case the emission factor may differ.
Step to Import the Emission Factor:
Figure: Emission Factor import
Manage Mapping :
Here we map the Emission factors imported in the previous step to the individual product here the mapping can be based on
As the emission factor could be supplier specific or Generic where the commodity code could be used to map
Figure: Map Emission factors to Product
Manage Purchased Product Footprint :
This allow to check if we have emission factor for all the purchased product
Figure: Purchased Product Co2e
Calculate Footprint
Lastly we have the Calculation where we utilizes all the below , to calculate
Step to calculation :
Figure: Excel Template
Figure: Calculation for Carbon Footprint
If anyone opts to use the excel template for the data upload here is the sequence and the template to be used
Figure: Manual Upload Matrix
Error Handling:
At each and every Step of the Process error are clearly stated if any .
Some common errors