Energy data management in SAP

With environmental regulation and mechanisms like cap-and-trade coming up, every organization will need to collect its energy and emission data in detailed form; and make it available for analysis / decision-making.

For example, additional KPIs like carbon footprint for products may be extremely important for businesses (think of information saying this TShirt or this pack of Orange Juice contributed 23 Units of CO2 emissions - on the label).

Most of emission data can be collected from existing information in multiple systems. Taking a case of a manufactured product, it can be determined how much emission happened per product (add the emission from energy used in producing, energy used in facility/maintenance, energy/fuel used in warehousing/shipping - and convert to dollar value by using the carbon trading rates).

For a somewhat related example check the information at site www.sapsustainabilityreport.com

This is a BI type application which can collect information from production, logistics, plant maintenance, warehousing and transportation modules and calculate carbon footprints in dollar terms for products, employees, locations and so on.