cbs.zero

Our approach to sustainable business. For your sustainable business.

A value chain that is both robust and sustainable is the backbone of your business. This is where you make the difference. For your customers. For your suppliers. For the planet.

We support you in putting your roadmap towards sustainable business to the test. And together we will find suitable solutions for climate protection, circular economy and social responsibility.

The five building blocks of our framework

The cbs.zero framework provides you with a viable lever for addressing the challenges you currently face: Climate change, pollution, resource scarcity. By adopting sustainable practices, you minimise your company’s carbon footprint.

You reduce your emissions and conserve your resources. You help preserve our planet for future generations and reduce the risks associated with pollution.

The cbs.zero framework helps you make your supply chain more efficient, reduce costs and improve the management of your critical resources. Your company becomes more attractive to customers, employees and investors who increasingly value environmentally sustainable business practices. You become part of the solution and more competitive in the long term in today’s fast-changing environment.

Integrated Reporting and Steering

Elastic sustainability data is important for your company to be able to manage supply chains and measure progress. Your company, like your customers and suppliers, needs to understand the impacts of your actions, and you need to comply with various pieces of legislation. Integrated reporting meets the needs of your stakeholders and turns environmental and social risks into opportunities.

Less Emissions

You make the transition to low-emission production and transport by using sustainable energy sources and starting to make the entire supply chain sustainable. In this way, in addition to meeting your legal obligations, you contribute to slowing climate change, preserving the environment, protecting our health and thus actively contributing to a more liveable planet.

Less Waste

By reducing your waste and optimising the use of resources, you minimise the extraction of natural raw materials, reduce energy consumption, decrease the release of greenhouse gases and thus counteract the loss of biodiversity and natural habitats. By viewing current waste as future raw materials, you contribute to a healthier future for generations to come.

Less Inequality

By increasing transparency in your supply chain, you help ensure decent work and respect for human rights. Responsible business practices ensure that risks of increasing inequality are minimised and equal opportunities for education and development are available to all. Current barriers can be reduced and future potential can be realised.

Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain

Sustainable and resilient supply chains promote environmental protection by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, conserving natural resources and minimising waste generation. By adopting sustainable processes such as environmentally friendly manufacturing, efficient packaging and the use of renewable energy, you are combating climate change and preserving our environment for future generations.

The four steps of your sustainable management

RECORD

Measure, calculate and document data for internal and external reporting. This includes the collection of emission and waste-relevant data, as well as data on social indicators and general governance information.

This step is key to meeting the information requirements of both the legislator and customers. It is also the starting point for identifying high-impact areas and tracking progress towards sustainability goals.

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REPORT

This step is about communicating your sustainability goals and progress towards them to relevant stakeholders – your employees, investors, customers, partners and the public.

This includes making the data of your actual CO2 emissions along your value chain transparent and accessible.

This is how you fulfil your accountability obligations and create trust.

2

IMPROVE

Introduce improvement measures based on the measured and reported information.

Energy flows can be used to analyse where efficiency increases are possible. This also includes increasing efficiency in the use of resources and avoiding waste.

Improvement measures help you to secure your USP in the market and hold your own against the competition.

3

INNOVATE

Develop new business models and products.

This includes thinking about alternatives in design, purchasing, production and transport and offering sustainable products and packaging.

The joint introduction of end-to-end processes leads to a more sustainable supply chain overall.

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cbs.zero Portfolio

Would you like to know how the SAP Sustainability Control Tower, SAP Sustainability Footprint Management, SAP Responsible Design & Production and SAP Product Compliance can support your compliance and ESG management?

Talk to us and make an appointment for a tour of our demo system.

Understand and Discover

ESG Awareness Workshop

Executives representing core functions of the business (CIO, CFO, CSustO, …)

1-day workshop to highlight current ESG requirements
Discussion on ESG challenges
Presentation of SAP sustainability solutions
Discussion on potential solution designs

ESG Maturity Assessment

Executives representing core functions of the business (CIO, CFO, CSustO, …)

Pre-check of available information e.g. sustainability reports
Interviews with ESG responsibles
Cross-check of information on ESG maturity model
Management presentation of ESG maturity check

Design

Sustainability Target Picture

Executives representing core functions of the business (CIO, CFO, CSustO, …) and business experts from departments/responsible functions

Scoping ESG challenges
Provision of Status quo by analyzing ESG strategy, processes, and system landscape
Derive business capabilities for meeting ESG strategy and translation to digital capabilities and solutions
Definition of target picture with corres-
ponding roadmap

Build

Sustainability Implementation

Business experts from departments + responsible functions

Delivery of target picture landscape

cbs demosystems: understand use cases and capabilities

Sustainability Control Tower

Sustainability Footprint Management

Responsible Design & Production

Sustainability Data Exchange

Green Token

Scenario/Use Case:

EU Taxonomy Reporting
CSRD Reporting
Generic ESG Reporting
Monitoring of strategic ESG objectives based on current ESG performance

Sustainability-related cluster:

Steering & reporting

Addressed challenges & needs (mandatory & voluntary perspective):

EU Taxonomy
CSRD
Sustainability Reporting

Provided Capabilities:

Import of master and transaction data for ESG reporting
Calculation of key figures in the form of data points according to ESG reporting requirements
Support through ready-made process steps, e.g., EU Taxonomy Alignment and Eligibility Screening
Accelerated implementation through ready-made key figures in the ESRS Starter Pack (Business Content)
Defined APIs for data exchange between systems

cbs.zero service/product:

Besides generic consulting services from cbs.zero, following specific consulting services could be relevant:
Business consulting on analysis of the data in their source systems for EUT, CSRD & Co
Technical consulting on solution design
Implementation partner for realization of the requirements in the area of sustainability

Scenario/use case:

Calculation of the product carbon footprint (PCF)
Calculation of the corporate carbon footprint (CCF)
Management of emission factors

Sustainability-related cluster:

Climate Action

Challenges and needs addressed (mandatory and voluntary perspective):

PCF & CCF
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
Emission reporting in CSRD & EU Taxonomy

Provided functions:

Data integration:
- Master data import from SAP S/4HANA
- Transaction data import from SAP S/4HANA
- Re-integration of calculated emissions into SAP S/4HANA
- Export of calculated emissions to SAP Sustainability Control Tower
- Export of calculated emissions to SAP Sustainability Data Exchange
Emission factor management:
- Management of emission factors from LCA databases
- Creation of supplier-specific emission factors
- (AI-supported) mapping of emission factors to material master records
Emission calculation (scalable across all plants, products, and greenhouse gas categories):
- Calculation of production emissions considering direct emissions and actual energy consumption (GHG Scope 1 and 2)
- Consideration of emissions from externally procured products (GHG Scope 3)
- Calculation of emissions from internal and external transportations
- Manual capture of additional greenhouse gas emissions for all GHG categories
- Calculation of the corporate carbon footprint (CCF)
Analysis and additional functionalities:
- Analysis apps for visualization and evaluation of the calculated emissions
- Utilization of transferred emission data in S/4HANA apps

cbs.zero service/product:

In addition to the generic consulting services provided by cbs.zero, the following specific consulting services may be relevant:
- Technical consulting for solution design
- Data integration from SAP S/4HANA and other ERP systems, e.g., ECC

Scenario/use case:

Calculation and management of plastic taxes and packaging fees
- Detailed maintenance of packaging compositions for multiple levels of primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging with various materials
- Packaging optimization for lower fees and improved recyclability

Sustainability Cluster:

Circular Economy

Challenges and needs addressed (mandatory and voluntary perspective):

Compliance with plastic and packaging taxes (e.g., plastic packaging tax for Spain and the UK) in alignment with current legal regulations
Fulfillment of extended producer responsibility (EPR) reporting requirements
Sustainable product design through material composition analysis
Support for circular economy models (e.g., recycling rates, reusability)

Provided functions:

Data integration
- Import and utilization of master and transactual data from SAP S/4HANA
- Return of calculated tax rates to SAP S/4HANA
Compliance and tax reporting
- Automated calculation of packaging and plastic taxes based on quantity data for products and their packaging materials
- Support for EPR reporting in accordance with regional regulations
- Management of recycling rates and reuse targets
Analysis and additional functionalities
- Analysis of material composition to identify non-sustainable materials
- Visualization and reporting for guiding sustainable product designs

cbs.zero service/product:

In addition to the generic consulting services of cbs.zero, the following specific consulting services may be relevant:
- Technical consulting for solution design in SAP RDP
- Data integration from SAP S/4HANA and other ERP systems, such as SAP ECC

Scenario/use case:

Exchange of Scope 3 emissions data with business partners
Management and standardization of product carbon footprint (PCF) data

Sustainability-related cluster:

Climate Action

Challenges and needs addressed (mandatory and voluntary perspective):

Capturing and exchanging accurate PCF data along the supply chain
Compliance with standards such as the Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT)

Provided functions:

Data request and exchange:
- Proactively request and share precise PCF data with business partners
- Automated collection of primary data for PCF calculations
Standardized data models:
- Conformity with industry frameworks such as Catena-X and WBCSD PACT
- Ensuring interoperability through standardized data formats
Data management:
- Centralized management of current and historical PCF data
- Prevention of double counting of emissions
- Identification of products or processes with high potential for carbon reduction
Analysis and additional functionalities:
- Integration with SAP Sustainability Footprint Management for seamless use of exchanged data in emissions calculations
- Support for compliance with sustainability standards and certifications

cbs.zero Service/Product:

In addition to the generic consulting services provided by cbs.zero, the following specific consulting services may be relevant:
- Prototype development in your or our demo tenant
- Technical consulting for solution design
- Integration of SAP Sustainability Data Exchange into existing ERP systems and SAP sustainability solutions

Scenario/use case:

Tracing and managing material flows and their sustainability attributes at the transactional level
Supporting compliance with regulations such as:
- EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
- Mass Balance (RedCert & ISCC)

Sustainability-related cluster:

Climate Action & Circularity

Challenges and needs addressed (mandatory and voluntary perspective):

Ensuring traceability of raw materials
Compliance with sustainability standards and certifications
Transparency in complex supply chains

Provided functions:

Declaration management:
- Compliance with standards and regulations such as ISCC, RSPO, REDcert, and EUDR
- Management of declarations for various programs and areas within a single solution
- Automatic collection, creation, and transfer of declarations in accordance with certification standard requirements
Segregated or mass balance accounting:
- Efficient setup and management of supply chain accounting for the entire organization at a large scale
- Consideration of material transformations and movements

Analysis and additional functionalities:

Use of blockchain technology to create a digital twin of materials
Detailed insights into the origin of raw materials, material movements, and net balances
Ensuring transparency of material flows across the entire supply chain

cbs.zero service/product:

In addition to the generic consulting services provided by cbs.zero, the following specific consulting services may be relevant:
- Building a prototype in your or our demo tenant
- Technical consulting for solution design
- Integration of SAP Green Token into existing ERP systems
- Support for compliance with sustainability standards and certifications