SAP now shows emissions for selected cloud products, based on its servers. It still calls its spend-based estimate the reporting reference.
Customers of selected cloud products, among them S/4HANA Cloud and Integrated Business Planning, can now see the emissions and energy use of their own SAP services, SAP said.
SAP calculates each server's daily power use and assigns it to products and customers.
In SAP's own words, its older spend-based estimate "remains the reference approach for emissions reporting at this stage". Audit readiness and alignment with the ISO 14067 standard are still underway, SAP says.
Cloud software counts in a company's value-chain emissions, known as scope 3. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Scope 3 Standard, the common accounting rulebook, lists purchased goods and services among its 15 categories.
For controllers, that means two numbers for the same SAP bill. One follows the servers. The other follows the invoice, and SAP still calls that one the reference.
Our reading for controllers: the choice of figure, and how it is documented for the auditor, sits on the finance desk. SAP tells customers to assess the method against "their own reporting frameworks and auditor expectations".
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