As businesses face today's economic climate along with market globalization, a key strategy is to minimise costs while still meeting sustainability initiatives, such as emissions and energy reductions. How can you monitor energy use, optimise assets and materials, and ultimately meet your company carbon reduction objectives?

Software and services from SAP and our partners can help you gain greater insight into your energy and resources. You can bring visibility into asset utilisation and energy use, identifying cost reduction opportunities and linking to plant control systems to monitor plant operating performance.

SAP can help you:

• Gain full, accurate visibility into what you own, what you lease, where it is located, how it is being used, and identifying and reporting operating costs
• Reduce transaction costs, increase operational efficiency, and free up capital from your assets – so you can invest in other growing areas of your business
• Improve decision making and investment strategies through accurate cost and revenue performance data across all areas of your business

SAP Solutions and Services for Resource Efficiency

SAP solutions and services can help you manage all types of resource assets. Addressing a variety of industry-specific requirements, SAP solutions can support all phases of the asset life cycle, including the acquisition or disposal of assets, management of the asset portfolio itself, property and technical management, as well as support processes including management accounting and reporting.

SAP can also help you meet your corporate energy needs in today's deregulated energy market. SAP MII can bring visibility into plant operations, while the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) can assist consumers gain insight into their electricity usage. Combined, these two offerings can improve your access to information, overall view of asset performance – leading to increased overall efficiency.

People interested in sustainability often find additional value in the following areas:

• Improve asset visibility to minimise product defects and rework, increase asset capacity, and improve first-pass quality