by Jennifer Scholze, SAP
SAPinsider - 2011 (Volume 12), October (Issue 4)

With growing environmental concerns, sustainability is becoming more important than ever. Many companies are making strides to make their business practices greener. For manufacturers, however, the topic becomes even more complicated because they must think about packaging, recycling, and product end-of-life processes. In this article, discover how SAP enables manufacturers to meet their product and packaging recycling goals and requirements with SAP Recycling Administration.

by William Newman, Managing Principal, Newport Consulting Group
GRC Expert - Volume 4 (2011), Update 6

Brands and manufacturers maintain complex supply chains of material, service, and component vendors. To demonstrate compliance with a myriad of social, economic, and environmental regulations, maintaining accurate records of supplier compliance in procurement and ongoing supplier management activities is necessary. Likewise, suppliers to multiple brands receive duplicative compliance requests simultaneously, driving up compliance reporting and business improvement activities when resources are not available to accommodate such requests.

by Marty Etzel and Jeremiah Stone, SAP
SAPinsider - 2011 (Volume 12), July (Issue 3)

Did you know that 57% of companies believe sustainability is necessary to be competitive, but only 33% actually have a business case for it? This installment of the "Sustainable Business" column offers a guide to executing the sustainability business case by addressing key areas that customers most often have questions about and laying out five strong cases for sustainability.

by Tobias Kutning, SAP AG
SAPinsider - 2011 (Volume 12), July (Issue 3)

How can a company be sure that the energy-efficient server it chooses is truly a sustainable one? To help, SAP, in close cooperation with its partners, introduced the SAP server power standard application benchmark, which tests a vendor's server, allowing that vendor to demonstrate the server's efficiency — and enabling customers to evaluate it before purchasing. Explore the results from one SAP partner, Fujitsu, which earned the first SAP server power standard application benchmark

by William Newman, Managing Principal, Newport Consulting Group
GRC Expert - Volume 4 (2011), Update 1

Forthcoming carbon emission reporting and monitoring efforts enacted by US regulatory authorities represent yet another compliance dimension for many commercial interests. Learn how SAP has created a flexible approach for assessing your carbon footprint and follow-up steps you can take in your compliance and sustainability program.

by Sami Muneer, SAP
SAPinsider - 2011 (Volume 12), January (Issue 1)

If you look across the SAP customer base, you’ll see a clear corporate focus on reducing the environmental inputs and outputs of operations. To help with these reduction efforts, customers worldwide are implementing the latest release of SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand; this article highlights customers’ feedback and experience with the solution.

by William Newman, Managing Principal, Newport Consulting Group
GRC Expert - Volume 3 (2010), Update 10

The Sustainability Executive Advisory Committee (EAC) of SAP is developing several roadmaps to enable functions and processes to address corporate sustainability reporting (CSR), planning, and monitoring activities. Stay ahead of the curve on sustainability by previewing these conceptual roadmaps and the expected releases of related SAP functionality.

by Laura Casasanto
Project Expert - Volume 3 (2010), Update 9

Sentilla, a provider of energy management solutions for data centers, has released a new version of Sentilla Energy Manager, which monitors and manages data center energy consumption. It provides open interfaces to integrate with SAP Carbon Impact and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. With the new version, the software is able to populate both SAP solutions with energy usage information, providing companies with more visibility into energy performance and carbon consumption.

by David Hannon
insiderPROFILES - 2010 (Volume 1), October (Issue 4)

This year’s SAPPHIRE NOW conference provided practical advice on both how to build a business case for sustainability and how the IT organization can support sustainable business practices with technology. Get expert advice from 16 sustainability experts who presented at SAPPHIRE NOW and learn why sustainability matters not only to the business, but also why it matters to the IT organization.

by Paige Leidig and Joydip Das, SAP
SAPinsider - 2010 (Volume 11), October (Issue 4)

Small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) have historically been at a disadvantage when it comes to software infrastructures. But cloud computing and software-as-a-service have begun to level the playing field. Discover how SAP Business ByDesign functionality lets SMEs unlock the value of cloud computing and tilt the field in their favor with dynamic adaptability, increased innovation, and deeper data visibility.