you will also have established clear systems to manage inefficiencies in every
aspect of your operational phases, from your product safety (which includes
hazardous substances and dangerous goods) and waste management to your
industrial hygiene and safety and your occupational health. If by then your
business has not progressed beyond merely complying and reached that place
where it is actually excelling, rest assured that it won’t be long until you do.
This is SAP’s approach to GRC — integrated so that your environmental risk
assessment feeds into the SAP Enterprise Risk Management (see Chapter 2
for details).
Without customized software integrated into your organizational processes,
your company will have great difficulty meeting industry demands to comply
with the regulatory standards that seem to be growing up around you faster
than luxury condos in every city center. SAP GRC environmental solutions
include SAP Environmental Compliance for emissions control, energy man-
agement, and other regulatory mandates, as well as the Waste Management
module in SAP Environment, Health, & Safety (SAP EH&S) for tracking the by-
products of your processes. Both solutions are fully integrated into the SAP
Business Suite family of business solutions.
SAP Environmental Compliance .......................................................
The most difficult obstacle to surmount when attempting to comply with
today’s stringent emissions standards and engage in successful emissions
trading is the inability to easily access and use the multitude of systems that
are required to run a typical manufacturing plant. SAP Environmental
Compliance enables you to overcome these barriers. Because it is a compos-
ite application with sophisticated cross-functionality, it provides you with
access to emissions-related applications, functionality, and data that are
trapped in assorted systems spread throughout your company. And not only
can you fully access and exploit these wide-ranging data sources, but SAP
Environmental Compliance also enables you to extract and integrate relevant
emissions-related data from them, which is then used as the basis for
on-going emissions calculations.
As you can imagine, the resulting benefits are legion. When you deploy this
application to its full capacity, you can conquer access barriers, align your
business processes, and enhance the flow of information throughout your
business. The system can monitor, document, and control plant emissions
output, maintain compliance status, and track, document, and create reports
for performance benchmarks. You can also use it to engage in trading, energy
management, and collaboration management to communicate with key stake-
holders, both in and out of the company.
To perform these tasks, SAP Environmental Compliance uses
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