companies build a more circular economy using the SAP Responsible Design and Production software .
Rothermel built this cloud-based solution based on SAP ’ s Business Technology Platform , its flexible development and customisation platform . The solution helps companies react to quickly changing plastics taxes , for example , and adapt product packaging specifications to respond to new Extended Producer Responsibility policies .
Ensuring social sustainability SAP ’ s social sustainability software and ESG packages are an important part of its offering , which SAP has been investing into for years and covers more operational aspects of sustainability .
“ Customers use this for the operational compliance on a plant level for emissions management and waste management related topics , but it also has a strong health and safety component ,” explains Rothermel . “ It covers incident management , because SAP operates in many industries that are also very regulated .”
Mendelsohn emphasises that sustainability can ’ t all be about carbon emissions .
“ Fundamentally , we still talk too much about carbon and climate as an environmental problem , as if this is something separate than social . At SAP , we have the ability to measure the social elements . What I want to emphasise is that when we talk about treating carbon
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