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SAP Sustainability Control Tower.
Your digital command center for sustainability management.
As global focus on sustainability intensifies, with reporting frameworks such as the CSRD, EU Taxonomy, ISSB, and TCFD gaining prominence, businesses require automated, data-driven solutions to simplify compliance, monitor ESG performance, and turn sustainability goals into tangible actions. SAP Sustainability Control Tower (SCT) provides the comprehensive platform needed to meet these challenges, offering real-time insights and advanced analytics to support informed decision-making and accelerate sustainability initiatives.
What is SAP Sustainability Control Tower?
SAP Sustainability Control Tower (SCT) is a comprehensive, cloud-based platform that helps businesses monitor, manage, and optimize their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance in real time. It acts as a centralized hub for sustainability data, allowing organizations to comply with regulations, reduce carbon footprints, and drive sustainable growth.
With growing global emphasis on sustainability reporting frameworks like the CSRD, EU Taxonomy, ISSB, and TCFD, businesses need automated, data-driven solutions to simplify compliance, track ESG performance, and turn sustainability goals into action. SAP SCT is the answer.
Why SAP Sustainability Control Tower?
Businesses today face three major sustainability challenges:
1
Fragmented Data &
Manual Processes
Manual Processes
Sustainability data is scattered across multiple systems, making reporting inefficient and error-prone.
2
Regulatory Compliance
Complexity
Complexity
New global regulations require comprehensive sustainability disclosures, increasing compliance pressure.
3
Lack of
Actionable Insights
Actionable Insights
Organizations struggle to turn sustainability data into business impact, missing opportunities to drive real change.
SAP SCT solves these challenges by centralizing sustainability data, automating ESG reporting, and enabling predictive insights—helping businesses move from compliance to proactive sustainability leadership.
Technology change & business alignment.
Key challenges
Fragmented data systems
Manual reporting processes
Slow real-time insights
Regulatory compliance complexity
High cost of sustainability tracking
Lack of predictive sustainability insights
Inconsistent supplier compliance
Scalability for future sustainability goals
Customer
values
values
Increase operational efficiency
Optimize costs
Ensure compliance and mitigate risk
Key
differentiators
differentiators
Automated data
integration across systems
integration across systems
Real-time GHG and
ESG reporting
ESG reporting
Compliance tracking with global standards
(TCFD, ISSB, CSRD)
(TCFD, ISSB, CSRD)
Scalable for global operations
How it works.
SAP SCT is built on three core pillars: Record – Report – Act.
RECORD
Automates data collection from multiple sources (SAP and non-SAP systems) for comprehensive sustainability tracking.
Sustainability Metric management
WE enable businesses to leverage both pre-defined and customized sustainability metrics within SCT. By aligning key performance indicators with global sustainability goals, organizations can ensure real-time, accurate tracking across all operations.
Data sourcing & integration
WE streamline data ingestion from various internal and external sources, eliminating silos and
providing a single source of ruth for supplier compliance, greenhouse gas (GHG) tracking & sustainability performance.
Data quality assurance
Our automated data validation and completeness checks highlight potential issues, ensuring that sustainability reporting is reliable, compliant, and audit-ready.
Data enrichment & calculation
WE enhance SCT with advanced disaggregation and calculation tools to fill missing data gaps, accurately track Scope 1, 2, and 3 GHG emissions, and assign financial value to key sustainability initiatives.
Period
closing
closing
By automating data consolidation and audit processes, we ensure that businesses seamlessly transition from reporting to action, meeting regulatory standards and enabling informed sustainability decisions.
REPORT
Ensures compliance with global regulations through real-time ESG reporting and analytics.
KPI Tracking
SCT provides an intuitive, real – time dashboard that visualizes sustainability KPls across business units and locations.
Drill-down capabilities enable organizations to align sustainability goals across operations with precision.
Analytics
Organizations can leverage
SCT’s analytics capabilities to identify trends, assess risks, and forecast
sustainability performance, enabling data-driven decisions for long-term impact.
Reporting
WE enable businesses to generate automated, regulation-compliant reports for both internal stakeholders and regulatory bodies. SCT supports voluntary and mandatory ESC frameworks, keeping organizations aligned with global sustainability regulations.
Benchmarking
By integrating external sustainability benchmarks, organizations can compare performance with industry peers, prioritize sustainability actions, and align with best practices and future ESG regulations.
ACT
Transforms insights into action by embedding sustainability into core business processes.
Target setting &
planning
Westernacher enables businesses to define clear sustainability goals across both long-term commitments and daily operations. By setting granular sustainability targets, organizations can ensure accountability and measurable progress toward
ESG objectives.
Simulation and
forecasting
forecasting
With advanced simulation tools, organizations can forecast sustainability scenarios, anticipate regulatory changes, operational shifts, and market trends, and align long-term sustainability
strategies with evolving business needs.
Initiatives
tracking
tracking
Keep track of your
sustainability actions, create transparency and create a single platform for aligned sustainability KPI tracking and action. Provide expected quantitative improvements from each action in order to feed into the overall planning and forecasting cycle.
Embedding in business processes
Operationalize sustainability action by integration with operational processes and systems to drive long lasting impact.
Key features of SAP SCT.
Real-time sustainability monitoring
Tracks Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions with automated data integration.
Provides instant visibility into sustainability performance using SAP’s analytics engine.
Provides instant visibility into sustainability performance using SAP’s analytics engine.
Regulatory-ready ESG reporting
Ensures compliance with CSRD, ISSB, EU Taxonomy, TCFD, and other frameworks.
Generates audit-ready reports for both internal and external stakeholders.
Generates audit-ready reports for both internal and external stakeholders.
AI-driven predictive analytics
Forecasts sustainability risks and opportunities using machine learning models.
Benchmarks performance against industry peers and helps set strategic sustainability targets.
Benchmarks performance against industry peers and helps set strategic sustainability targets.
Circular economy & business network integration
Optimizes resource utilization and reduces waste through a circular economy approach.
Facilitates carbon data sharing across supply chains using SAP’s Business Network for Sustainability.
Facilitates carbon data sharing across supply chains using SAP’s Business Network for Sustainability.
Sustainable Finance & KPI Tracking.
Measures sustainability-linked investments and financial risks and defines clear measurable ESG goals with KPI dashboards.
The Impact.
Up to 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions within the first two years.
40 percent improvement in emissions tracking accuracy through automated data integration.
Faster regulatory reporting with AI-driven insights, reducing reporting effort by up to 50 percent.
With SAP SCT, businesses can move beyond compliance and actively drive their sustainability strategy, leading the way toward a zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality future.
Westernacher. Your trusted SAP SCT partner.
At Westernacher Consulting, we help companies implement and maximize the value of SAP Sustainability Control Tower. Our team provides:
End-to-end implementation and customization tailored to your business needs.
Integration with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and other systems to ensure seamless data flow.
Ongoing support and consulting for ESG strategy, compliance, and reporting.
Sustainability Insights.
Articles
White paper
Sustainable manufacturing: A path to ecological production.
Sustainability roadmap with an integrated planning solution.
Sustainability Analytics: How to set up a Corporate Carbon Footprint with SAP S/4HANA and SAC. – Part 1
Sustainability Analytics: How to create your carbon footprint monitor. – Part 2
Sustainability Analytics: How to integrate the reporting and planning of your carbon emissions into your company. – Part 3
