In 2021, Globe Telecom, a provider of integrated telecommunication services, was named The Game Changer in the inaugural SAP Best Run Awards for Southeast Asia for successfully implementing several SAP cloud-based solutions such as SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, SAP Fieldglass and migrating to SAP S4/HANA. Adapting the SDA (Simple, Digital, Agile) principle, the telco was able to streamline processes and embrace a re-architectured scalable system landscape that propelled its transformation journey.

Fast-forward to today, Globe deepens its alliance with longstanding technology partner, SAP, this time to deliver on the company’s commitment to driving sustainability for Philippine enterprises. As one of the leading telecommunications companies in the country, Globe has the opportunity to champion change for a sustainable future as highlighted in the recently held event in collaboration with SAP, Globe Innovtalks.

Simone Pigason, Head of Digital, Resilient, and Sustainable Supply Chain of SAP Southeast Asia, and Ivan Curada, Cloud Engineer at Globe’s Information Systems Group (ISG) discussed the critical role of digital technology in advancing the sustainability efforts of businesses in the country, particularly in supply chain management and workplace innovation.

Sustainability Innovations in Supply Chain and the Workplace

In recent years, enterprises are progressively integrating sustainability as an integral part of their operations, most especially in the supply chain, driven by the increasing awareness of the societal and environmental benefits of sustainable practices. According to a CDP study in 2020, 92% of the whole greenhouse gas (GHG) emitted by a business is attributed to emissions from the supply chain.

During the event, Pigason emphasized how digitalizing supply chains not only significantly reduce businesses’ carbon emissions but also, most importantly, drives an agile, productive, connected, and resilient supply chain. On the unprecedented impact of the pandemic on the global supply chain, Pigason said:

“The global health crisis has shown businesses the importance of having resilient supply chains. And as various disruptions still happen globally, resilient supply chains are a must to provide consumers consistently with the goods and services they need.”

To help enterprises further their environmental measures, Pigason highlighted two SAP solutions– the SAP Sustainability Control Tower and Plastics Warrior – that can help organizations manage their green line.

The SAP Sustainability Control Tower solution allows companies to enhance their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) transparency while improving business performance. It helps businesses record authentic sustainability data, report audit-ready ESG metrics, and embed sustainability in business processes.

On the other hand, SAP’s gamification initiative Plastic Warriors gives the stakes to supermarket consumers to contribute to saving the environment through recycling. It alerts the shoppers of their plastic use as well as the retailers of their plastic waste by leveraging advanced analytics. This sustainability solution is an encouraging tool for the Filipino people to embrace recycling.

As for sustainability innovations in the workplace, Curada shared that Globe digitalized its 4,000 memos (with an average of 5 pages) per month through a company-owned system called memo.ph– significantly cutting paper consumption and allowing faster approval processes. He detailed:

“This serverless application digitalizes our memo approval processes to allow us to save at least two trees every month. It also offers templates to make memo creation as easy as possible while using an open-source library, so you are not paying for any license to make this application possible.”

Commending Globe’s efforts to becoming a sustainable enterprise, Pigason said it is essential to digitalize traditional processes. She added:

“All these solutions and applications prove how technologies can help build a sustainable future in today’s world.”

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Today, sustainability has become an indispensable part of corporate management, but many companies are still lacking the knowledge on how to start their efforts when it comes to sustainable practices. Fortunately, there are many different types of sustainability management programs in place that can help with this issue.

For example, SAP started its sustainability initiatives in 2009, with the aim of promoting its own initiatives to be an industry leader in sustainability and to develop specific products and solutions that assist in the development of sustainable consumption. The company has remained committed to its green agenda and is today seen as an exemplar for other corporations around the world when it comes to sustainable business practices.

Furthermore, the German tech giant has been working to develop a variety of projects over the past few years with the goal of achieving zero in all aspects of climate change, recycling, and inequality. The company’s efforts include a plan towards zero carbon emissions and developing a recycling economy that is geared towards zero waste. These projects are part of SAP’s more recent response to the concept of sustainability; their social responsibility strategy aims to create a more balanced world with a focus on building communities that are socially and environmentally conscious.

In recent years, SAP has provided many solutions to assist customers with their sustainability goals. One of the most popular is SAP Product Footprint Management which is one of the tools that can be used to calculate and manage CO2 emissions from a company’s products, both from within and outside the company, in an itemized format. 

Last May, during the SAP Sapphire conference in Orlando, the company announced a new direction for expanding the SAP Product Footprint Management. A supply chain managed by any given company typically spans across multiple industrial sectors, and consists of heterogeneous networks and software that are linked to implement an effective decarbonization plan.

Latest SAP Sustainability Solutions in Japan

SAP has been created and developed as not only a tool for an individual company to measure their carbon emissions, but also as a way for other companies to be able to measure these emissions in order to comply with the standards of the Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT) of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The API for carbon data linkage is installed on SAP Product Footprint Management, intending to provide an interactive mapping to see how a company’s CO2 emissions are influenced by their suppliers and customers.

In Japan, SAP’s local subsidiary has announced plans to promote environmental sustainability in the workplace, focusing on reducing the ecological footprint of their headquarters building. In order to do so, they are evaluating how the company operates and what policies they offer. Additionally, SAP Japan is also looking at how to make SAP products more environmentally friendly and promote green initiatives at home and abroad.

Moreover, SAP Japan has announced their latest “Sustainability Service Package” which provides comprehensive support from the planning stages to the development and introduction of sustainability management solutions for companies. This time, the company’s service package offers complete support for a variety of issues faced by business such as “customer recycling,” “energy conservation,” and “waste reduction.” (InsideSAP Asia often references articles from websites in other languages to bring you as much information as possible.)

As part of the latest announcement, SAP Japan will offer a service for customers interested in building solutions with minimal initial investment. The quick start service provides a basic set of features that are designed to quickly provide value to businesses. This includes the SAP Product Footprint Management, which will help organizations document their compliance with sustainability requirements. The SAP Responsible Design and Production solution, which will help facilitate the transition of businesses to a circular economy through sustainable products, is also included in the quick start service.

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