Master data from SAP Human Resources
Material consumption data from SAP Supply Chain Management
Emissions-relevant substance data provided by the SAP EH&S capabilities
in SAP Product Lifecycle Management
Equipment data and functional hierarchies produced by the asset life-
cycle management capabilities of SAP Product Lifecycle Management
Plant maintenance cost information from SAP Financials
Third-party data historians or other plant floor operational systems via
SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII)
Emission-certificate pricing data from third-party emissions trading
platforms
By participating in emissions trading, companies that meet prescribed
targets receive credits; they can then trade these credits like stocks to
companies that haven’t met their targets (the potential revenue from
such trading is well into the hundreds of millions of dollars)
In addition, SAP Environmental Compliance works with SAP Product Lifecycle
Management to create plant maintenance orders that optimize workflow for
compliance tracking. It updates SAP Financial, too, so that emissions below
the permitted levels are treated as financial assets, and it submits buy or sell
emissions-certificate orders through trading platforms. All required data is
regularly and systematically delivered to SAP Business Intelligence for report-
ing purposes.
Building emissions models and analyzing emissions
With SAP Environmental Compliance, your business can build structured
representations of facilities and processes. You can also generate records
that detail emissions types, source amounts, and environmental effects, and
automatically estimate complex emissions data. Forecast scenarios can be
defined and applied, and performance goals estimated based on environmen-
tal key performance indicators. When you need to document your communi-
cations as required by industry regulations, this application does it for you,
automatically and on demand.
Managing compliance
Use SAP Environmental Compliance to track, analyze, and record emissions
measurement data, control interactive processes, and exercise risk manage-
ment responsibilities. This application evaluates existing emissions data, as
well, and generates forecast scenarios to assess the effects of operational
modifications. While your asset management teams can deploy it to calibrate
and maintain measurement equipment, your operational teams can lighten
their load by letting its functionality manage workflow and role-based tasks.
Triggers that automatically generate alerts when emission values exceed
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