How SAP’s Vision
and Purpose Come to Life
Enabling Our Customers to Improve the Economy,
our Society, and the Environment through Technology
May 2017
Contents
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Letter from Bill McDermott
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Improving the Economy, Society,
and the Environment
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Economy
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Society
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Environment
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How SAP Makes a Difference
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Making a Difference
Letter from
Bill McDermott
SAP’s vision is to help the world run better and
improve people’s lives.
In service to this enduring purpose, we have
committed our people and our products
to address the world’s biggest economic,
environmental, and societal issues. SAP
customers have made significant impact in areas
such as chronic disease prevention, humanitarian
relief, digital government, and energy efficiency.
We are inspired by these efforts. We also know that
much more work lies ahead.
This publication shows what is possible when
modern innovation is applied to longstanding
global concerns. Mobility, cloud computing, big
data, and the Internet of Things – all enabled by
our once in a generation SAP HANA architecture
– give us more potential than ever before. A better,
more intelligent world is now within our grasp.
We now have the technology to deliver economic
opportunity for all people and substantially
improve lives.
Let’s come together and tackle the greatest
challenges because they truly are our biggest
opportunities. I warmly welcome you to this cause.
Bill McDermott
CEO, SAP SE
Our vision is to help
the world run better
and improve people’s
lives. Our solutions help
people, businesses,
and institutions achieve
economic development,
social progress, and
environmental impact.
—Bill
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Improving the Economy,
Society, and the Environment
The world today presents us with
opportunities like never before. But it also
poses challenges on a much larger scale.
The United Nations has defined 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) to transform the
world’s economy, society, and environment. These
goals are a universal call to action to end poverty,
protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy
peace and prosperity.
We integrate these goals with our own higher
purpose: to help the world run better and improve
people’s lives. They inspire us to remain focused
on doing our part to solve the most pressing issues
facing the billions of inhabitants on our precious
planet Earth.
We believe digital technologies will enable
companies and organizations to tackle some of the
world’s most complex, intractable problems, such
as abolishing poverty, saving the lives of the more
than 6 million children who don’t live to see their
fifth birthdays, and reducing global CO2 emissions
by a third – to name a few.
To learn more and find details from this report, visit www.sap.com/unglobalgoals
SAP’s opportunity is to provide our customers,
partners, and consumers with the tools they need to
have an impact – whether it’s empowering the poor
through financial services, providing personalized
medicine, building infrastructure, or combating
climate change. In collaboration with our customers
and other organizations, we are determined to
deliver on our higher purpose of making the world a
better, more sustainable place, ultimately improving
the lives of billions of people.
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Making a
Difference
Society
SAP brings people and
technology together to
improve people’s lives
and make the world a
better place.
Economy
Environment
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Economy
Society
Environment
Economic improvement goes beyond revenue
growth. It is also about providing meaningful work
to people across the world—empowering prosperity
through a living wage, shelter, and nutrition. Another
component is to promote innovation by developing
a strong industry while protecting individual and
organization privacy.
Health, education, access to technology, and
public safety are at the core of a peaceful and just
society. They are what enable citizen engagement
and human progress. When people are more
productive they lead happier, healthier, and more
fulfilling lives.
Climate change touches everyone today and will
impact the lives of future generations. Whether
in rural or urban areas, the need for water, clean
energy, and responsible development is key to
continued prosperous life on this planet.
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Together, we can impact...
Economy
Economy
Society
Work & Prosperity
Innovation & Security
Health & Education
The main factor in providing economic
empowerment and ending poverty, hunger, and
exclusion is fairly paid jobs. Creating 30 million
jobs every year would eradicate poverty.* SAP
software helps companies work better to
bring economic prosperity and jobs to people
around the world.
Innovation is key to human progress and
economic development.* But in this age of hyperconnectivity and cloud, security and privacy are
major concerns for people and companies alike.
SAP provides innovative solutions with world
class security standards to more than 300,000
customers so they can in turn develop their
respective industries, provide work, and ensure the
mobility of people and goods, thereby improving
people’s standard of living.
Health and education are essential to well-being
and sustainable development. For example, since
2000, measles vaccines have averted nearly 15.6
million deaths.* SAP technology is at the
epicenter of complex medical issues around
prevention, treatments, and cures for cancer,
diabetes, and other diseases. We are also deeply
committed to empowering the world’s youth,
working adults, differently abled people and the
unemployed with the right skills they need to
thrive in the digital economy.
We can help the 2.2 billion people who live on less
than $2 a day earn a decent living*
We can give >2 billion people permanent
access to electricity*
We can save the lives of >6 million children who
today don’t live to see their fifth birthday*
*United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals – 17 goals to transform our world, www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals
To learn more and find details from this report, visit www.sap.com/purpose
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Together, we can impact...
Society
Environment
Environment
Smart Cities and
Safe Communities
Clean Planet and
Climate Change
Responsible Growth
Cities are centers of innovation and culture,
but are facing growing populations and aging
infrastructure. Half of humanity – 3.5 billion people
– lives in cities today, and it will grow to 60% by
2030.* SAP solutions for the Internet of Things
can help manage and monitor resources so cities
can run more sustainably and help citizens enjoy
happier, safer lives.
We are all affected by climate change. For example,
energy accounts for approximately 60% of total
greenhouse gas emissions.* Therefore, lowering
energy consumption and producing cleaner
energy are essential to our well-being. SAP
technology is helping our customers make
the world more energy efficient, cleaner, and
greener for future generations.
We can improve the lives of the 60% of humanity
who will live in cities by 2030*
We can reduce by 1/3 global CO2 emissions,
back to the 1990 level*
With the world population growing steadily,
humanity will need to provide water, food, and
shelter to billions of additional people in the
coming years. For example, more than 80% of
waste water resulting from human activities is
discharged into rivers or seas without any pollution
removal.* SAP solutions help optimize resource
utilization and minimize waste, supporting the
responsible growth practices necessary to ensure
the survival of future generations.
We can encourage millions of companies around
the world to adopt sustainable practices for clean
water, resource and energy consumption*
*United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals – 17 goals to transform our world, www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals
To learn more and find details from this report, visit www.sap.com/purpose
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Economy
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Economy | Work & Prosperity
Diakonie Michaelshoven:
The Human Touch
“Giving a home to the people we care for, is really near to our hearts,” says Elke Faulhaber,
Divisional Head of Diakonie Michaelshoven. Behind her, disabled senior citizens are
gardening. In another building, disadvantaged families and children return home to a safe
haven, refugees accept guidance and help which offers a broad range of social services to
thousands of people in Germany every year.
But the growing need for help presents challenges. “Society is changing very fast. Public
funding will not increase... It is our responsibility to keep administration costs low so we can
help as many people as possible,” says Uwe Ufer, Commercial Director.
Diakonie Michaelshoven streamlined its business and finance processes with SAP S/4 HANA
to help integrate processes and to provide real-time, daily operational information. “Our culture,
our self-confidence have changed tremendously,” said Ufer. Now, the company uses SAP
software in nearly every area, including property management, sales, and human resources.
“The money we save—we can reinvest for additional employees….a direct benefit to our people.”
Impact
Solution
SAP BusinessObjects
Lumira helps map all 80
locations in one view in
real time
SAP S/4 HANA
Human Resources will
digitize the workflow for
1,000 people
SAP S/4 HANA
SAP BusinessObjects
Lumira
SAP Real Estate
Management
Over 14,000 people
annually rely on Diakonie
Michaelshoven for
assistance
That additional human touch is simply priceless. “Nothing works without our care givers,”
says resident Anja Vannerum.
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Economy | Work & Prosperity
Purchasing Power: A Better Way to Buy
“I was raised to eat meals together as a family,” says Camillia Cooper, a single mother of
three. “But after my divorce, I was facing financial difficulties, and when we moved, we did
not have dining room furniture. I wanted that for my children, so the first thing I bought on
the plan was a dining room set.”
In addition to furniture, Camillia can buy laptops, educational services, retirement and
healthcare plans and other products thanks to Purchasing Power, a simple payroll
deduction plan used by 7.8 million employees at 260 organizations in the US.
“Americans cite money as their number one source of stress*,” says Richard Carrano,
President and CEO, Purchasing Power. Over 56% of American consumers do not qualify
for prime credit, putting them in a precarious position when it comes to dealing with
healthcare, emergencies or purchasing necessary items. “Our program fosters disciplined
purchasing through manageable payments and pre-set spending limits aligned to the
person’s salary. There are no late fees, ballooning interest rates or other surprises. If
someone loses their job, we help them set up an alternative payment program,”
says Richard.
Purchasing Power implemented SAP Hybris to customize the ecommerce experience,
increasing customer satisfaction and enhancing business capabilities with easy to use,
self-service features.
* Purchasing Power Customer Survey 2015
Impact
Solution
What customers say*
about the program:
SAP Hybris
• 94% say it reduces
their financial stress
• 78% say it makes
them more likely
to stay with their
employer
• 80% say it increases
satisfaction with their
employer
• 85% say it makes
them less likely
to withdraw from
retirement savings
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Economy | Innovation & Security
Tata CLiQ: Connects 1+ Billion People
with Modern Retail
It’s a monumental goal: seeking to personally connect with each of India’s 1.25 billion
people, especially in remote, digitally-fragmented places, and to offer them a customized,
modern, online retail experience. “At the end of the day, we are all customers and we would
like to feel special,” said Tata CLiQ CEO Ashutosh Pandey.
Currently, only residents in India’s ‘Top Ten’ cities can easily shop online for desired
brand name clothes, appliances, and goods, said Pandey. So, Tata CLiQ connected with
SAP Hybris to break through India’s infrastructure limitations and ultimately offer
customers hundreds of brands—and thousands of items—on one online platform.
Customers can click-and-collect merchandise from a nearby store, or pre-order
merchandise for home delivery. Stores can compete for customers’ business, in this
new physical-meets-digital model.
Tata CLiQ built on its core SAP stack to launch this new business. The resulting scalable
tech also helps the retailer build personalized, real-time relationships with customers.
“We were fairly clear that we were not going to adopt the bandaid approach,” said Pandey.
Impact
Solution
SAP Hybris helps
connect people in 900
Indian cities and 10,000
villages to modern,
online retail.
SAP Hybris
SAP Hybris helps Tata
CLiQ cover 3.2 Million
sq. km of India with
unique physical + digital
experience to touch more
than 1.25 Billion Indians.
“I think trust is one of the big anchors, and that is behind the continued relevance of
the Tata Group.”
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Economy | Innovation & Security
SK Solutions and QDVC:
Saving Lives on Construction Sites
Philippe Garnier, plant manager for QDVC, a thriving construction company in Qatar, is
responsible for all the machines and vehicles needed to build the new highway that will
circle the city of Doha. He is also responsible for the safety and welfare of the thousands of
workers and visitors on all QDVC’s projects.
“When people drive down this highway,” Philippe said, “it will be just another road. No one
will be thinking of the thousands of lives touched by these roadworks.”
Construction cranes are notoriously dangerous if they fall over or crash into one another.
But at QDVC there is much less danger of that happening, thanks to SK Solutions, 3D anticollision software designed specifically to save human lives.
SK Solutions, powered by SAP HANA, is the brainchild of Dr Severin Kezuo. “My goal is to
save lives. It was really unacceptable for me to see how many people were dying every day
on construction sites.” So Severin invented a system to prevent moving equipment from
colliding using sensors that deliver critical information in 3D images to a dashboard. “SAP
HANA gives us real time capacity for analytics,” he says. “That was the key because we need
insight into the business to make the right decision at the right time.”
Impact
Solution
SK Solutions and SAP
partner for safety on
construction sites. As a
result, customer QDVC:
SK Solutions
SAP HANA
• is operating at
95% efficiency
• has had zero
accidents or injuries
in 7 years
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Society
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Society | Health & Education
Heidelberg University Hospital:
Helping to Save Lives of Kenyan Women
Esther Jeruto left her home at 5am to walk the 10 miles for a check-up at the Huruma
Health Center. While waiting in line, a young man introduced himself: Dr. Omenge from
Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret. He approached a taboo in Kenya - cervical
cancer. Jeruto heard how this cancer can develop from a common infection, the HPV virus,
and agreed to participate in a research study to identify women at high risk of developing
cervical cancer.
After her screening examination, Jeruto was shocked to learn she tested positive. The nurse
discovered precancerous lesions, and Jeruto received life-saving treatment. Now, Jeruto is
sharing this news with other women in her village, urging them to get screened.
Heidelberg University Hospital wants to make cancer screenings more available to Kenyan
women, so the Department of Applied Tumor Biology teamed up with SAP Design and its
Design and Co-Innovation Center to digitize the cervical cancer screening process. The new
mobile and cloud-based study helps to treat women who are infected. It provides remote
access to more accurate research data and enables nurses to receive test results faster.
Impact
Solution
Heidelberg University Hospital and
Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital,
Eldoret study:
SAP Cloud Platform
Mobile Application
600+ Kenyan women
screened with further
research ongoing as in
Kenya, cervical cancer
is the leading cause of
cancer deaths
Jeruto’s story is just one example of how technology and applied medical research can help
Dr. Omenge and his many colleagues globally on their missions to save lives.
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Society | Health & Education
SAP Code Weeks:
Refugee Code Week Middle East
“I knew nothing about computers,” says Shifaa Jumaa Al-Hariri, a young girl in Al Zaatari,
the world’s second largest refugee camp with 80,000 inhabitants located in Jordan. “I like
coding because it gives us important information that helps us prepare for our future.”
Impact
Solution
SAP Code Weeks 2016 in numbers:
SAP Africa Code Week
Shifaa and thousands of other children learned basic coding skills during Refugee Code
Week, an initiative sponsored by SAP in collaboration with the United Nations Commission
for Refugees (UNHCR) and Galway Education Center. The aim of Code Week was to
introduce refugees in the Middle East to the basics of computer programming, with courses
held in Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Turkey.
10,200 youth reached
in the Middle East: 43%
girls; 2,439 teachers
trained by SAP experts
and volunteers
There are millions of refugees of all ages stuck in camps throughout war zones and
in hosting countries. For children, the biggest issue is lack of education beyond the
elementary level. The IT industry, on the other hand, needs highly trained specialists to
drive digital transformation for long-term economic growth.
426,758 youth
introduced to coding in
Africa: 46% girls; 5607
teachers trained
There is no better way to invest in the future than by tapping into the tremendous
motivation of refugees.
First Code Week in Latin
America reached 400
youngsters
SAP Code Weeks in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America give refugees and other
underprivileged people a chance to contribute to the economy.
SAP Refugee
Code Week
SAP LATAM
Code Week
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Society | Smart Cities & Safe Communities
Smart Utility Systems:
Reducing Energy and Water Consumption
“You don't need TV…. When you go home at the end of the day, what you need the most is
water and power.” Deepak Garg founded Smart Utility Systems (SUS) to give consumers in
North America simple ways to conserve water and energy. About 95% of the water entering
our homes and businesses goes down the drain while 7.4 billion people rely on less than 1%
of the planet's accessible drinking water.*
Customers’ thermostats become part of the greater “Internet of Things,” so SUS can
correlate the data. Real-time, two-way communication helps customers track how
much water, energy and gas they’re using. Plus, they benefit from lower bills. “Being fully
integrated means we are able to provide all the intelligence back to the utility so that they in
turn can manage their operations to support sustainability,” said Deepak.
The SAP Mobile Cloud Platform allows the SUS software to be deployed 5 to 6 times faster
and make correlations in consumer consumption patterns. Running on SAP S/4 HANA
allows SUS to perform real-time analytics and get real-time usage alerts.
“My core goal is to work with a team and help everyone globally who is leveraging water
and energy in any form. That’s my day-to-day focus: this global challenge we are all
facing,” said Deepak.
Impact
Solution
SUS's Mobile Solution:
SAP S/4HANA
Results in a 40%
reduction in water,
energy a and gas
consumption
SAP Mobile Cloud
Platform
Deploys to end users 5 to
6 times faster with SAP
Mobile Cloud Platform
90% increase in visibility
of water & energy
consumption, enabling
customer empowerment
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Society | Smart Cities & Safe Communities
Dons Solidaires:
Helping People Who Need It the Most
Hygienic products, household cleaning items, school supplies, clothing. Boxes and boxes of
these donated necessities fill Dons Solidaires’ huge warehouse. Volunteers and employees
pack them up, and ship them out, and ultimately women and children in need, elderly,
homeless and refugees thankfully receive them. These daily necessities help people
improve their lives and help them maintain their dignity.
Dons Solidaires gathers these surplus supplies from more than 100 companies like L’Oréal,
Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson. To help manage a warehouse full of donations, Dons
Solidaires turned to SAP Business One to provide clear visibility of the stock, complete
control over all logistics flows and develop an online catalog. Dons Solidaires now tracks
donated products as they come in. Then, a network of charities simply go-online, check the
available stock, and order the products they need. This customized approach ensures that
the right supplies go to the right people who desperately miss them. The connect-the-dots
solution also allows Dons Solidaires to provide a social solution for donating companies, by
helping them reduce waste in their supply chains.
Impact
Solution
€130M products
collected since 2004
SAP Business One
500 network charities
receive donations
650,000 people helped
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Environment
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Environment | Clean Planet & Climate Change
Stara: Connecting People, Plants
and Machines for Sustainable Farming
When Rogerio Pacheco, the owner of a mid-sized farm in the south of Brazil, decided to
invest in a tractor with infrared sensors from a company called Stara, neighboring farmers
thought he had lost his senses. But in just two years, he was able to recover his investment.
Today Rogerio is Brazil’s second largest producer of soybeans. “High productivity and
sustainable farming practices are only possible with technology,” he says. “I was able to
increase the yield per acre without having to cut down trees, maintaining the balance
between cropland and forest on my farm.”
“The Internet of Things (IoT) revolutionized our business model,” explains Cristiano Buss,
Stara’s Director of Research & Development. “Previously, we viewed the machine and the
farmer as separate entities. Now we can connect machines to people and plants.” Stara’s
tractors already had sensors, but needed a real time system to make use of the data
collected. The company worked with SAP Labs Latin America to integrate the sensors with
a Digital Farming platform powered by SAP HANA.
Now Stara can offer data analytic capabilities to farmers so they can gain better insights
and make better decisions.
Impact
Solution
Pioneering work by Stara,
SAP and local farmers
enables sustainable
agricultural practices.
Precision farming
enables farmers to:
SAP IoT
SAP HANA
• Increase productivity
• Increase yield per acre
• Decrease
deforestation
• Decrease use of
fertilizer
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Environment | Clean Planet & Climate Change
University of San Francisco:
Saving Trees from Extinction
Researcher Gretchen Coffman followed her team of “fearless” local guides through one
of the most remote jungles on the planet. Their destination was an ancient forest in Laos
where the almost extinct Chinese swamp cypress tree can be found. “We really want to
save this organism… So the last thing I wanted to worry about doing was my expenses and
receipts!” Her National Geographic grant required that the University of San Francisco
professor maintain scrupulous records; yet, many of her receipts for food and supplies
were handwritten on paper scraps, and she often paid bills in local currency.
To comply with the grant requirements, USF Disbursement Service Director Dennis Miller
customized Gretchen’s expense reporting with Concur. He designed a unique coding
system so that her photos of receipts were automatically audited against the grant
requirements. “It was painless,” said Dennis.
Impact
Solution
With Concur, USF is able
to save employees up to
50% of processing time
Concur
USF customizes expense
reporting so researchers
focus on their missions
while complying with
grant requirements
Dennis has innovated and leveraged Concur’s solutions to solve problems before they
happen, for USF’s faculty and staff “…that to me is my contribution to make this a better
place,” said Dennis.
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Environment | Responsible Growth
Siemens:
A Green Future
A building’s exterior may simply look like concrete to us, but Dr. Johannes Milde looks
deeper – into the walls, floors, and ceilings. “We assume that in the future the buildings
will cover their energy needs themselves or even generate energy...” said Milde. He has
studied how concrete stores thermal energy. He believes garages full of electric cars could
store more energy in their batteries. And, he believes technology helps people make good
decisions to save water, electricity, and gas. Dr. Milde has long worked with Siemens’
Building Technologies Division.
Siemens was the first global industrial company to commit to carbon neutrality by 2030,
investing €100 million in energy-efficiency projects. Milde’s team partnered with SAP to
introduce the Building Performance Management Cockpit. The resulting project is designed
to help building managers holistically analyze and improve how buildings use energy.
Siemens’ expertise in building automation and metering systems, combined with SAP
HANA’s high-speed, in-memory database and analytics platform, results in a co-innovation
project to consolidate commercial, energy-related, and technical infrastructure data into
one data set.
“This kind of transparency is hard to achieve or is missing altogether for most companies.
Working together, Siemens Building Technologies and SAP have made it a reality.”
Impact
Solution
Siemens Building
Technologies and
SAP developed the
Building Performance
Management Cockpit
to save energy,
reduce costs, improve
performance
SAP HANA
SAP Cloud Platform
SAP HANA helps connect
infrastructure data
with energy efficiency
information
For an average building’s
lifecycle 80% costs are
operational of which 40%
is spent on energy
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Environment | Responsible Growth
DPaschoal: Digital Strategy
Enables Sustainable, 5 Star Service
DPaschoal prides itself as a company that fosters a responsible use of resources.
“We help our customers save on maintenance costs and reduce their footprint on the
environment. Every client has a personalized maintenance plan that tells them exactly
when it’s time to replace tires, oil or other parts. This enables us to be more efficient
when it comes to procuring and warehousing, and it allows us to manage wastes and
residuals in a responsible manner,” says Henrique Cavalhieri, eCommerce Manager at
the auto parts supplier.
Personalization is a key factor in the company’s ecommerce offering which is powered by
SAP Hybris. “The customer experience begins online and ends in the shop,” says Henrique.
“We want to bring them in at the right time when the parts are available, so they don’t
waste time or energy driving around. Every customer gets tailored alerts when it’s time for
maintenance. This helps eliminate driving disasters such as breakdowns or flat tires.”
SAP Hybris enables DPaschoal to provide customers with a complete omni channel
experience enabling efficiency throughout the entire process, from presales to sales and
post sales, to service in the shop.
Impact
Solution
SAP’s ecommerce
solution helped
DPaschoal achieve:
SAP Hybris
• 80% of tires collected
are processed for
re-use in other
consumer products
• 40% increase in time
customers spend on
the website
• 90% of customers
who buy items on
DPaschoal’s website
get their vehicles
serviced at a local shop
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How SAP
Makes a
Difference
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Economy
Business Beyond Bias:
Autism at Work
“I was homeless for a number of years,” said Mark Jessen, a successful IT consultant and a
valued team member based in SAP’s Silicon Valley office. “I was surviving from day-today, struggling to get back to work, but not getting any traction. I knew I had good skills,
but there were so many obstacles! Companies weren’t willing to look at me, or take me
seriously. Then I heard about SAP’s program.”
To compete in the innovation economy, companies need employees who think differently.
That’s why, SAP launched its Autism at Work program, which is aimed at recruiting and
hiring adults on the autism spectrum. “The program has been such a success, we are
working to expand it,” said José Velasco, head of the Autism at Work program at SAP.
Autism at Work is one of the programs within SAP’s push to enable Business Beyond
Bias. In addition, SAP supports governments’ commitment to advance inclusion in the
field of technology. The company is also enabling inclusion through its product portfolio
by building new capabilities into SAP SuccessFactors software that help companies
review job descriptions and people processes for potential bias, and suggest changes
to encourage equality.
Impact
Solution
When it comes to diversity, SAP:
SAP Autism at Work
is the first tech company
to receive Economic
Dividends for Gender
Equality (EDGE)
certificate
SAP Business
Beyond Bias
will increase
percentage of women
in management to 25%
by 2017; SAP North
America has already
achieved 30%
is committed to have
1% of its total workforce
on autistic spectrum
by 2020
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Society
SAP Skills
for Africa
Antony Gatuke, one of nearly a thousand graduates of the SAP Skills for Africa program,
says he already knew as a child that he had raw talent in maths, but he needed a roadmap
for his future career. “In high school, I thought the key to business was accounting, so that’s
what I studied. Later I found out that businesses run on enterprise management systems,
and that if I wanted to enter that world, I would need a whole new skill set.”
Today Antony works as consultant on SAP project implementations. “One of our clients
for an implementation project that I was involved in has been selected as the Gold Winner
of the SAP Quality Awards in the Fast Delivery category for Africa!”, he says. ”The Skills for
Africa program completely changed my life.”
“SAP not only trains and certifies young and dynamic graduates through this program,
it also puts them into employment, creating our own sustainable skills pipeline and
enhancing SAP’s long term viability,” says Meena Confait, head of SAP Skills for Africa at
SAP Africa. Using a hybrid approach of classroom and e-learning training, the three-month
program is free for select unemployed graduates in key African regions.
Impact
Solution
SAP Skills for Africa is part of the SAP
Development & Training Institute:
SAP Skills for Africa
950 startups innovators
reached in MENA
980 young professionals
trained worldwide
98% graduates placed in
employment
SAP Skills for Africa
winner of the Hasso
Plattner Award 2016
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Environment
Applying Technology and Ideas
to Protect the Planet
SAP is using digitization to help customers combat the impact of climate change by
increasing their overall resource productivity and decoupling business operations from
carbon outputs.
SAP strives to lead by example and believes that by running cleaner, greener operations,
we can make a difference to our planet.
Growth in the cloud means our data centers have become a primary focus of carbon
reduction efforts. So we have introduced initiatives to drive efficiency and innovation
around buildings, data center operations, and infrastructure. In addition, we have tied our
business strategy to our environmental strategy by creating a completely “green cloud”
powered by 100% renewable electricity.
Another of our goals is to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from our operations
by 2020 to levels of the year 2000. We are working to reduce CO2 emissions through
three primary approaches: increasing operational efficiency combined with innovative
approaches to the way we operate, purchasing high-quality renewable electricity
certificates and carbon credits. In 2016, we outperformed our annual target of reducing our
emissions to less than 400 kilotons (kt) of CO2.
Impact
Solution
SAP has more than halved emissions
per employee during the past ten
years, and is committed to:
Sustainable
Programming
Sessions
Reducing CO2 emissions
back to the 2000 levels
by 2020
Sustainable Mobility
and carbon initiatives
Using 100% Renewable
Energy in SAP’s Data
Centers and own
Facilities
Having 20% Electric
Vehicles in Company Car
Fleet by 2020
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Making a
Difference
Heidelberg University
Hospital
SAP Code Weeks
Smart Utility Systems
Society
Dons Solidaires
Empowering our
customers to improve the
economy, the environment,
and society through
technology
Diakonie
Michaelshoven
Stara
University of
San Francisco
Purchasing Power
Tata CLiQ
SK Solutions
and QDVC
Economy
Environment
Siemens
DPaschoal
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These examples illuminate the possibilities when
people are united by a compelling purpose and
enabled with cutting edge technology innovation.
They are also only the beginning of what we can do
together to help the world run better and improve
people’s lives.
Digital disruption has led some to question what kind
of world we will leave for the generations that follow.
We hold the optimistic view that business is a force
for positive change that can lift people up. The fight
for inclusion, opportunity and sustainability can unify
all sectors of the modern economy – public, private
and not-for-profit. Technology and data can unlock
answers to the questions we collectively face.
To all of you: we believe in the power of
collaboration to achieve our higher purpose.
Our goal is to unify the forces of purpose-driven
leadership so we can find new ways to solve the
world’s most pressing challenges Together, we can
drive continuous innovation to make a collective
impact that none of us could ever do alone. We
invite you to visit www.sap.com/purpose.