BOSTON — Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a leading strategy consultancy, announces a partnership with SAP (NYSE: SAP), a market leader in enterprise application software.
- BCG and SAP will provide transparency on sustainability “at the push of a button” and deliver impact based on a combination of strategy, technology, and business model change, with BCG and SAP solutions that can be ready to use within weeks.
- BCG and SAP want to help accelerate companies in their journey to zero waste and zero emissions. BCG and SAP can enable companies to achieve emissions reductions of up to 40%.*
- Early-adopter companies can realize up to 15 years of competitive advantage, generating more than a 10% market premium on shares in many industries.**
The joint transformation offering will allow companies to identify the business value in sustainability, setting the right climate ambitions and powering an actionable sustainability road map.
The SAP and BCG partnership will help companies tackle the generational challenge of climate change and respond to increasing investor pressure and ever stricter regulations. Research from analyst firm IDC shows that sustainability has become a top business priority.†
“According to one of IDC’s recent end-user surveys, three-quarters of executives involved in their company’s sustainability initiatives believe that environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are ‘very important’ for the enterprise value of their organization,” said Bjoern Stengel, the global sustainability research lead at IDC. “BCG and SAP have both been at the forefront of operationalizing sustainable transformation with their clients, and this partnership will further help IT buyers use sustainability-focused technology strategically to achieve their goals.”
SAP and BCG offer market-leading solutions in three areas that are of particular relevance in a sustainability transformation — strategy, business model change, and technology innovation — to complement their respective efforts in the sustainability space.
To help companies accelerate on their net-zero-emissions journey with an up to 40% emissions reduction potential,* BCG and SAP will enable companies to integrate leading-edge carbon-tracking measurement and intelligence into their core business operations and strategic decision-making. Combining two market-leading solutions in BCG’s CO2 AI and the SAP Product Footprint Management solution, the partnership targets Scopes 1, 2, and 3 via BCG’s CO2 AI as well as an integration into core SAP software through SAP Product Footprint Management.
To help achieve zero waste in supply chains, SAP and BCG will assess the circularity opportunity in a company’s portfolio across its entire supply chain and product portfolio. Based on BCG’s CIRCelligence and the SAP Responsible Design and Production solution, this offering will enable customers to accelerate the zero-waste journey.
The sustainability transformation efforts of customers will be guided by a Holistic Steering and Reporting solution backed by the SAP Sustainability Control Tower solution and BCG’s Compliance Target Operating Model to help ensure that the transformation is driven with a focus on business value and that companies comply with all regulatory requirements.
“Sustainable businesses will create positive impacts for future generations, but no organization can achieve its sustainability goals alone,” said Christian Klein, CEO and Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. “Being sustainable requires coordination across the value chain, and this is where SAP’s partnership with BCG plays a key role. Bringing together BCG’s expertise, tools, and services with SAP’s technology gives companies the transparency, actionable data, and strategic guidance they need to successfully tackle end-to-end sustainability and create value for all its stakeholders.”
This new partnership is designed to effect enterprise-wide change, spanning complex supply chains and creating business value from sustainability.
“I firmly believe that an organization’s environmental impact will soon be as important to its key stakeholders as its financial performance. Early movers in sustainability can experience up to 15 years of competitive advantage and a 10% market premium.** This is an enormous opportunity for companies around the world. This partnership with SAP will allow our clients to transform at an unprecedented pace,” added Christoph Schweizer, CEO, BCG.
The Sustainability Transformation offering from BCG and SAP is deployed at lighthouse customers right now, with an expected broader launch in the third quarter of 2022.
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About Boston Consulting Group
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About SAP
SAP’s strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: SAP customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers’ businesses into intelligent enterprises. SAP helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want – without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people’s lives. For more information, visit www.sap.com.
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*Karalee Close, Norbert Faure, and Rich Hutchinson, “ How Tech Offers a Faster Path to Sustainability,” Boston Consulting Group, October 14, 2021.
**Aré, Berthaud, Fuisz-Kehrbach, Haloui, Hutchinson, Loureiro, Perzanowski, Rhodes, and Semmel, “Sustainability as Advantage,” 2022.
†ESG Business Services Survey, IDC, 2021.