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SAP Sustainability Control Tower

Holistic ESG reporting

Onye Dike
Written by Onye Dike
Published July 9th, 2025
2 min read
Published Jul 9, 25

Summary

SAP Sustainability Control Tower (SCT) is a cloud-native SaaS tool designed for sustainability leaders, finance teams, and executive decision‑makers who want to manage ESG performance with the same precision as financial metrics. SCT captures actual, granular data from SAP systems—such as S/4HANA and SuccessFactors—as well as non‑SAP sources, creating an integrated, audit‑ready dataset. Executives can view emissions, water use, or diversity figures alongside financial KPIs, making it easier to weigh trade‑offs between cost and environmental impact. This unified view helps companies manage ESG strategically, turning it into a powerful business differentiator rather than merely a compliance task.

Details

Name
SAP Sustainability Control Tower
Date of establishment
2022-01
Organization
SAP

Features

AI-Powered Insights for Optimization
Audit Support
Carbon Footprint Calculation
Compliance Reporting
Customizable Dashboards
Customizable Reporting Templates
Data Import/Export
ESG Metrics Tracking
Emissions Factor Database
Goal Setting & Tracking
Scenario Analysis for Emissions Reduction
Scope 1 Emissions Tracking
Scope 2 Emissions Tracking
Scope 3 Emissions Tracking
Our principle

Cut through the green tape

We don't push agendas. At Net Zero Compare, we cut through the hype and fear to deliver the straightforward facts you need for making informed decisions on green products and services. Whether motivated by compliance, customer demands, or a real passion for the environment, you’re welcome here. We provide reliable information—why you seek it is not our concern.

Deep dive


Core Features

SCT delivers robust, enterprise-level sustainability capabilities in a single platform:

  • Data Sourcing & Integration - Connects automatically to SAP and non‑SAP data systems, validating and aggregating granular ESG data (e.g., actual GHG, water use).

  • Metric Management & Calculations - Supports pre-defined models aligned with GRI, TCFD, CSRD, ESRS, EU Taxonomy, and allows custom metric definitions for Scope 1–3 emissions.

  • Performance Insights & Dashboards - Visualizes metrics in drill-down, dashboard, mapping, and chart formats for ESG trends and benchmarking.

  • Action‑Ready Steering - Enables goal-setting, forecasting, scenario planning, and tracking sustainability actions within business locations or units.

  • AI‑Driven Report Generation - Automates ESG-report drafting using AI-powered templates that support CSRD and other frameworks.

  • Security & Audit‑Readiness - Provides data validation workflows, change-logging, audit trails, and live integration for audit-grade reporting.

Closing Insights

Customer stories from the platform’s website underscore SCT’s ability to drive tangible sustainability progress. The Tyrolit Group, for example, applied SCT to achieve CSRD compliance across a complex corporate structure and earned recognition as an SAP Innovation Award finalist. Meanwhile, msg global used the solution to consolidate ESG data from HR, finance, operations, and non‑SAP sources, successfully publishing its first structured sustainability report. Leaders there emphasize that SCT allowed them to treat sustainability metrics with the same rigor as financial data, shifting from estimated averages to precise, real-time insights. Recent updates have added new capabilities such as qualitative metric management, customizable multi‑dimensional metrics, instance‑based authorizations for secure role‑specific data access, and a modern “Analyze ESG Data” application for flexible dashboarding. Expanded live connectivity now covers a comprehensive suite of data sources, and AI‑driven report templates enhance automation and executive readiness. These enhancements strengthen SCT’s foundation as a governance-grade ESG platform, helping organizations integrate sustainability deeply into strategy, operations, and reporting.


Onye Dike
Written by:
Onye Dike
Sustainability Research Analyst
Onye Dike is a Sustainability Research Analyst at Net Zero Compare, where he contributes to research and analysis on environmental regulations, carbon accounting, and emerging sustainability trends.