LEADING WITH PURPOSE : EDITION 4 by sapleadingwithpurpose

LEADING WITH PURPOSE Issue #1

AUG 2020

LEADING WITH PURPOSE

OCT 2021

EDITOR'S WELCOME Welcome to the fourth edition of our publication Leading with Purpose! In recent months the number of aspirational corporate commitments around sustainability has increased dramatically. The challenge now lies with executing the activations required to fulfil these aspirations. 67% of CEOs acknowledge that they find it hard to get a clear sense of the current state of their business, particularly when it comes to the measurement of auditable Environmental Social Governance (ESG) data across their value chains. Without this insight and transparency business leaders are operating in the dark. They simply cannot make the informed decisions required to reach their ambitious commitments.

Vivek Bapat SVP, Purpose & Sustainability Marketing

At SAP, we see technology as the key driver to closing this gap between aspiration and activation. Our sustainability solutions support the bold vision for “Chasing Zero” – a future of ZERO emissions, ZERO waste, and ZERO inequality, enabled with our customers.

We start by providing transparency into financial and non-financial data and insights that together play a critical role in helping to optimize carbon emissions, increase resource circularity, and connect with socially responsible partners. By effectively embedding these insights into core business processes, we empower our customers to deliver sustainability at speed and scale. The fourth edition of “Leading with Purpose” explores how holistic steering and reporting is the prerequisite mandate required to guide the strategic decisions to make businesses intelligent, profitable, and sustainable. We hope this quarterly magazine continues to provide you with a greater understanding of all the impactful work happening across the company to “help the world run better and improve people’s lives.” Thank you to all the teams that contributed content, including, Purpose & Sustainability Marketing, CSR, Sustainability, Health & Well-Being, Global Diversity & Inclusion, SAP SuccessFactors, Life At SAP, and more.

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LEADING WITH PURPOSE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITOR'S WELCOME

HOLISTIC STEERING AND REPORTING • Introducing SAP Sustainaibiltiy Control Tower • Holistic Steering & Reporting featured stories

• The Interrconneceted Nature of Prfitability and Sustainability • CFOs Turn on Sustainability Reporting + ESG Metrics in Enterprise Software Suites • Archive of Previous Chasing Zero articles • Rise with SAP - Sustaiinability video • Chasing Zero in Asia Now, APJ Webcast

SAPPHIRE NOW + DIGITAL STOREFRONT FOR SUSTAINABILITY | SAP.COM

CLIMATE ACTION • Featured Stories • Earth Overshoot Day • Launch of SAP Footprint Management • SAP Sustainabiility Community Calls • World Economic Forum Alliance of CEO

Climate Leaders

• Featured Stories • Ocean Voyage Institute Partnership • SAP Sustainablity for Retail Forum • Regenereative By Design with London Design Festival • openSAP Course

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY WEEK • The World's To Do List • Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) • Leaders on Purpose • UN Global Compact: Uniting Business Live • Wheel of Purpose

SAP MOMENTS OF SERVICE • A Re-Energized Approach to Impactful Employee Engagement • Opportunities to get involved • SharePoint with additional details

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

• Featured Stories • Free to be Me Campaign and Research • Redefining (You)th • The Possibilists • #BeKind21 • The Autism Inclusion Pledge • Back to Best for Parents • Pledge to Flex • SAP Health Navigator • Ligthen the Load

CHASING ZERO

• SAPPHIRE NOW Keynote Video • SAPPHIRE NOW Featured Stories • Sustainability Digital Storefront

FEATURED STORIES • SAP featured in external articles • SAP COVID Vaccine results • Tour de SAP impact

UPCOMING EVENTS • Women in Data Science • SAP Sustainaibility Day • Chasing Zero Roundtable at Expo • SAP Customer Experience Live • Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP26

HOLISTIC STEERING AND REPORTING

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HOLISTIC STEERING AND REPORTING

We are helping the world run better by empowering leaders with the capabilities to make sustainable business decisions. SAP is providing businesses insights and transparency across environmental, social, and financial value creation .

Learn more about Holistic Steering and Reporting

What is holistic steering and reporting? Connecting financial and pre-financial metrics is key to comprehensively analyzing all dimensions of a company’s performance. Intelligent, sustainable enterprises measure both the positive and negative impacts of their business activity on people and the planet to steer balanced decisions and achieve holistic business success – beyond what is commonly known as ESG Reporting.

How People and the Environment are Finally Part of the Balance Sheet Luka Mucic from SAP explains how the Value Balancing Alliance, whose members include BMW, Bosch, Michelin, Porsche, the Big Four accouting firms, and SAP is putting a price on nonfinancial impacts.

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HOLISTIC STEERING AND REPORTING

SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS

SAP Sustainability Control Tower SAP's upcoming flagship product within our sustainability portfolio will embed economic, environmental and social performance into strategic decision making.

The Quest to Redefine Business Success Through Sustainability As investors and consumers seek out more socially and environmentally responsible companies, and businesses learn to account for their impacts on people and the planet, all are seeking precise ways to express what sustainability looks like in data and dollars. sustainability looks like in data and dollars.

Converging on Stakeholder Capitalism SAP's Chief Sustainability Officer, Daniel Schmid, shares the need for businesses to collectively contribute to solving the climate crisis and how stakeholder capitalism takes into account the interests of the planet.

Social, environmental, and economic performance are at the heart of SAP’s business, and top of mind for our customers.

CHASING ZERO

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CHASING ZERO A WORLD OF ZERO EMISSIONS, ZERO WASTE, AND ZERO INEQUALITY

Imagine a future that looks greener, cleaner, and more equal than the world we live in today. A world of ZERO emissions, ZERO waste, and ZERO inequality. At SAP, we dare to not just dream about this aspiration, but to power the technology and innovation that is required to activate this bold vision into reality. Learn more:

SAP.com/ChasingZero

Join the APJ Sustainability webcast series, Chasing Zero in Asia Now to learn how to make profitability sustainable & sustainability profitable.

CHASING ZERO

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The Interconnected Nature of Profitability and Sustainability

CFOs Turn On Sustainability Reporting and ESG Metrics in Enterprise Software Suites

By: Daniel Schmid

By: Luka Mucic

Companies that commit to their sustainability journeys today will be the ones that remain competitive and relevant tomorrow. - Daniel Schmid, Chief Sustainability Officer, SAP

The Chasing Zero Editorial Gallery

Carbon accounting: You can't manage what you don't measure

The Path to a LowCarbon Future is Circular

Reimagining an Industry-Wide Paradigm Shift Toward a Circular Economy

By: Christian Klein

By: Thomas Saueressig

By: Julia White

Allbirds': Runaway Success Leaves a Small Carbon Footprint By: Vivek Bapat

SAPPHIRE NOW

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SAPPHIRE NOW 2021

This year at SAPPHIRE NOW, sustainaibility was at the top of the agenda. SAP CEO Christian Klein and thought leaders from various industries explored the innovations your business can leverage today to become a more resilient, sustainable, and intelligent enterprise.

WATCH THE KEYNOTE

Sustainability Management by SAP: Enabling Tomorrow Starts Today

Chasing Zero, with Eye on the Future of Business

Going Beyond the Four Walls of Your Business

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SAP.COM/SUSTAINABILITY

EXPLORE SAP'S UPDATED DIGITAL SUSTAINABILITY STOREFRONT

Holistic Steering and Reporting Explore how SAP is driving better business decisions and steering. We integrate economic, environmental, and social performance and promote the evolution of impact measurement and valuation.

www.SAP.com/Sustainability

CLIMATE ACTION

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

MOMENTS OF SERVICE

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MOMENTS OF SERVICE Get involved and make an impact!

Moments of Service is a new initiative from SAP Corporate Social Responsibility that offers engagement opportunities for employees all year round. It represents the evolution of SAP’s October Month of Service campaign, with a goal to connect employees with purpose through impactful volunteering and inspiring speaker sessions to deepen their understanding of the social and environmental issues that SAP is invested in.

Explore the Moments of Service SharePoint site

Impactful Volunteer Opportunities

Connecting Employees with Purpose

Inspiring Speaker Sessions

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MOMENTS OF SERVICE

A Re-Energized Approach to Impactful Employee Engagement To more authentically represent SAP’s enduring commitment to bettering our world, we re-energized and re-booted our largest employee engagement campaign. We de-coupled “Month of Service” from October and adopted a new name, “Moments of Service.” The initiative now runs all year round. It focuses on enabling employees to make an impact through volunteerism and on empowering them to learn more about some of the largest social and environmental issues our world is facing through an inspiring series of speaker sessions and other purpose-focused activities. By getting involved, employees can gain new perspectives, develop as leaders, and feel more connected to SAP, to each other, and to our communities.

There are Many Ways to Engage in Moments of Servicce To find a starting point that suits you click the image above.

Read the SAP News Center article.

CLIMATE ACTION

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CLIMATE ACTION

Aspiring to a world with zero emissions. SAP enables organizations to go beyond measuring top and bottom-line results to include a new dimension of success - a green line, helping companies minimize the greenhouse gas footprint of their products.

FEATURED STORIES:

We Run Proud: Pride@SAP Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary

What HR Can Do to Impact Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts

SAP at Globe Series: Procurement to Build Back Better

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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

A Research Study by SAP & The Female Quotient.

Zero Inequality is one of our key focus aspirations in our pursuit of Chasing Zero. Since December 2020, SAP has been working on a 3-part research study focused on intersectionality which has been developed alongside longstanding equality partner, The Female Quotient. Intersectionality is increasingly being used as a framework to better understand how we should consider the future of equality and equity. EXPLORE THE SHAREPOINT

What we are hoping to accomplish: Better understand the accelerators and barriers employees face to job satisfaction, career advancement, and career success. Identify the critical factors needed to foster a culture of belonging and identify where SAP is excelling and lacking. Recognize the respective role of leaders and employees in creating and sustaining a culture of equity. Provide guidance to leaders and employees that empower them with the knowledge to actively create cultures of equity. Develop solutions to address the barriers to realizing a culture of inclusivity.

Survey Respondents

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

OCT 2021

REDEFINE YOU(TH) World Youth Skills Day to International Youth Day

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Skilling Up Young Disruptors, Dreamers, and Doers In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared July 15 World Youth Skills Day. This day recognizes the inherent value of equipping the next generation with the skill sets required to pursue gainful employment, find decent work, and engage in social innovation and entrepreneurial activity. With youth unemployment on the rise since 2017, World Youth Skills Day seeks to bring together young people, policymakers, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, and employers to prepare youth with the training they need to excel in the future of work.

How Youth Are Inspiring Change in Refugee Camps Across Africa

A Passion For Travel Turned Into an Obsession with Purpose

Shaping a Bright Future for Underprivileged Girls with Digital Inclusion

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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

MEET THE POSSIBILISTS This study was conducted in 2021 by an alliance of 16 of the world’s leading youth social innovation networks. It was driven by the desire to better understand the lives and realities of young changemakers.

In a Post-Pandemic World, Youth Take Center Stage

To the Young People That Moves Us Forward

There are infinite possibilities to change the world. To put a number to it, consider that there are 1.2 billion people in the age group of 15-24 across the globe — that is 1.2 billion possibilities for change! -Daliya Manuel, Corporate Social Responsibility Fellow

Meet the Possiblists from around the world and partners that support them

We are Family Foundation Changemakerxchange

Social Shifters

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

OCT 2021

JOIN US TO TAKE ACTION Bringing together SAP employees & entrepreneurs to shape the business of future

Log on to SAP Together and find a cause that matters to you. If you don't know where to start, below are a few great opportunities to support SAP Corporate Social Responsibillity's strategic programs. - Africa Code Week: Three opportunities to volunteer between now and October - Latin Code Week: Learn more about becoming a virtual mentor this year (the only necessary prerequisite to be a volunteer is to speak Spanish or Portuguese) - Meet and Code: For volunteering opportunities at Meet and Code as well as The Acceleration Collective: You're invited to join the Acceleration Collective, the inaugural pro bono initiative from SAP. This program is bringing together SAP employees as pro bono consultants as well as certified SAP coaches, to work alongside young social entrepreneurs from across the globe. This program will build leaders and transform businesses to maximize their impact. Learn more about the program The SAP Pro Bono for Economic Equity Program: is an innovative and impactful program aimed at helping to solve critical business challenges for Black-owned businesses and social enterprises affected by social and racial injustices in the United States. The program's first phase concluded earlier in June, with 48 SAP employees working with 16 Black-owned businesses and social enterprises in four major US cities. The second phase of the program, which will see 30 SAP employees participate, will kick off in October Learn more about the program

SAP is excited to expand this program globally to Brazil, the U.K., and South Africa.

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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

#BeKind21

This September, Born this Way Foundation (BTWF), ran their fourth annual #BeKind21 campaign – which is centered around encouraging acts of kindness and compassion. The campaign invited everyone to practice kindness toward self and others each day from September 1 to September 21 to build kinder, more connected communities that foster mental wellness. To date, the movement has over 7 million participants, and has generated 160 million pledged acts of kindness.

Setting Our Minds to Being Kind: For the second year in a row, SAP stood proud with Born This Way Foundation (BTWF) and its #BeKind21 campaign. BTWF was founded by Lady Gaga and her mom, Cynthia Germanotta. The foundation supports the mental health of young people, with a mission of creating a kinder, braver world. READ THE ARTICLE

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

OCT 2021

AUTISM INCLUSION PLEDGE Inclusive businesses make inclusive societies. By joining Valuable 500, we at SAP continue to put disability inclusion on top of our business agenda. United, we can make a decisive contribution and foster a world of equality! SAP is designing a work experience so that all employees feel that they belong and contribute to a culture of equality and inclusion. A major component of this effort is creating accessibility in the workplace that removes barriers for people with disabilities. We want to empower all people to do their best every day. We are creating accessibility guidelines to further facilitate the existing wide range of accessibility and inclusion initiatives.

FRONT AND CENTER: MEMBERSHIP GRANT WITH HEYMAMA No more separating motherhood from professionalism. SAP is partnering with HeyMama to grant 300 working mothers who were disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and the female recession a free a 1-year membership to the HeyMama network. Together, we are building a future of work where mothers are front and center. EXPLOERE THE HEYMAMA MEMBERSHIP GRANT PROGRAM

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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

BACK TO BEST FOR PARENTS

The pandemic changed everything, including how we juggle work and parenting. That’s why SAP, TIME for Kids, and The Female Founder Collective have joined forces to help parents chart a new course as we emerge from the pandemic.

FLEXIBILITY FOR WORKING PARENTS IS ESSENTIAL

Corporate America’s Next Gig Social Impact Project: Easing the Plight of Working Parents

When an employee feels free to bring their whole self to work, it opens the doors for conversation, accommodation, and a better employee experience. If we’re going to care for that whole person, that means acknowledging, for anyone with children, how big a part of their adult identity being a parent really is. - April Crichlow, Global Head of Marketing SAP SuccessFactors

EXPLORE THE RESOURCES AND LEARN MORE

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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PLEDGE TO FLEX: THE FUTURE OF WORK IS 100% FLEXIBLE AND TRUST BASED

The global shift to working from home has led to new employee preferences and better understanding of how productivity and collaboration can successfully continue despite working remotely.

This year SAP pledged to provide a setup that fits every role, style, and location A 100% flexible and trust-based workplace as the norm An inclusive environment in which people can work from home, at the office, or remotely, so everyone is empowered to run at their personal best, driving success for SAP’s customers Flexible work schedules, so employees can decide when they work aligned with business needs Inspiring office designs tailored for creativity, collaboration, community, and focused work, enabling employees to find the right space for every task Office buildings that prioritize sustainability and health An approach that meets local regulations across the many regions where our employees work

SAP Just Announced A Flexible Work Model Employee Pledge That Is Fantastic

Pledge to Flex: The Future of Work at SAP Is 100% Flexible and Trust Based

OCT 2021

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

The SAP Health Navigator will help you find health offerings and tips to foster healthy habits. By answering a few easy questions, it helps you find tailored health offerings and specific recommendations according to your needs.

START QUESTIONNAIRE

Discover the Way We Lighten the Load Lighten the Load is a ‘get moving’ health campaign with over 40 events to choose from to help you mitigate the risks of stress & inactive lifestyle by making healthy choices. Experience and discover new ways to lighten the load of life’s stressors. Check out the calendar of events with over 40 live activities such as Fit@SAP activity challenges, webinars, mindfulness, and practical classes from ergonomic, physiotherapy and fitness experts!

CLIMATE ACTION

OCT 2021

UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY WEEK

The World's To Do List | The Global Goals The UN's 17 Global Goals aim to end poverty and inequality and solve the climate crisis by 2030. 'The World's To-Do List' campaign urges world leaders to act now to achieve these Goals and gets the business world to put its considerable weight behind them.

We have the power to re-energize our economy, markets, and industries through sustainable opportunities. What’s next after zero? SAP's Executive Board Member, Scott Russell, shares SAP's climate change solutions. READ THE WEF ARTICLE SAP is a proud partner of The Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF), a global social enterprise community. SAP's Global Program Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Jennifer Beason, shared her perspective on “How Can We All Better Support Young Changemakers?” Additionally, SAP's Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Alexandra Van Der Ploeg, took part in a discussion on “Corporate Social Partnerships with SAP & Unilever."

OCT 2021

CLIMATE ACTION

Leaders on Purpose CEO Summit The Fourth Annual Leaders on Purpose CEO Summit included workshops, and panel discussions focused on a purpose-first economy, advancing systemic leadership, and shaping a better future for all. SAP's CEO, Christian Klein, took part in a discussion on “Earthshot Partnerships – Breaking Silos, Building New Capacity to Solve Problems Together” event, and SAP's Executive Board Member, Scott Russell, spoke on “Systemic Transition Strategy: Central Role of Purpose-Centered Business.”

Launching The Wheel of Purpose with UNCTAD

Uniting Business Live

SAP launched a gamified, educational experience tied to the SDGs: the Wheel of Purpose. This innovative showcase, which runs on SAP technology, brings to life SAP’s commitment to the SDGs and encourages purpose-driven conversations among employees, customers, and partners.

Uniting Business Live, hosted by UNGC, addresses gaps,drives progress, and inspires business ambition on the SDGs. To highlight SDG Ambition, leaders from SAP + Accenture joined forces to share a joint message featuring Vivek Bapat, SVP, Purpose and Sustainability Marketing, SAP and Peter Lacy, Chief Responsibility Officer and Global Sustainability Services Lead, Accenture.

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