SUSTAINABILITY
“SHIFTING TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY MEANS CHANGING HOW WE DESIGN NEW PRODUCTS AND MATERIALS TO ELIMINATE WASTE ”
STEPHEN JAMIESON GLOBAL HEAD OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY SOLUTIONS , SAP reality is that the data needed is often in disparate systems .”
He adds : “ Sometimes , it might be in a SAP system , but oftentimes not . It could be across many different stakeholder groups within your organisation and across third parties , such as suppliers and packaging providers . Then the data might be in the form of an Excel worksheet or in a more formal system .”
This is why SAP is working with Nestlé on ways to access such data .
“ We want to solve the data problem to provide a view of the renewables in chocolate-box packaging . What ' s its recyclability ? How compostable is it ? What ' s the thickness ? What ' s the weight ?
“ Once we understand such things , we can then start to aggregate analytics at a
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