A sustainable future benefits our homes, businesses, communities, and environment
Globalization is shaping our world, impacting your business, the environment, and society. The burden and commitment to overcome global challenges is shared across suppliers, corporations, and consumers. SAP Ariba strives to create a positive impact on labor conditions and basic human rights. We have committed our people and products to address the world's biggest economic, environmental, and societal issues.
Our partnerships and innovative solutions will enable you to have visibility across your supply chain to better understand the real-time impact of transactions. When you can see every source on your supply chain, you can see who protects both people and planet. At SAP Ariba, we pledge to support your company’s efforts towards a more sustainable, equal, and nondiscriminatory planet.
SAP Ariba’s Three Sustainability Pillars
Social sustainability: Human and workplace rights
>40 million
Slaves worldwide, in almost every sector, region, and country
Environmental sustainability: Energy and climate change
200 million
People estimated to be affected by climate change by 2050
Economic sustainability: Creating sustainable communities through responsible sourcing
50%
Roughly half of the world’s population lives on about $2 a day
Play videoTogether with the UN Global Compact, SAP Ariba has goals to make a world of difference
SAP Ariba and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
SAP Ariba supports the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and guiding principles on business and human rights. We believe that to achieve these goals, companies need an integrated approach implemented through innovation, partnerships, and social responsibility.
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No poverty
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk delivers risk alerts for fair labor practices, including forced and child labor. Ariba Network empowers buyers to support local suppliers to help build the economies of local communities.
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Zero hunger
SAP Cloud Platform, SAP HANA
There is no easy way to provide food security, but with careful management across the entire supply chain and the help of digital technologies, we can ensure a sustainable future with enough food for everyone by 2050.
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Good health and well-being
Delivering Insights and Simplifying Medicine
Our technology is effectively used to help address cancer diagnosis and treatment. Furthermore, SAP has partnerships working towards improving clinical decisions in the areas of cancer, metabolism, and inflammation.
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Quality education
Buying and Invoicing
SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing and Commerce Automation help support quality education by finding, buying, and paying for tuition and educational materials for low-income and special-needs students.
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Gender equality
SAP and SAP Ariba Women in Leadership Initiative
SAP met its goal of 25% women in leadership by 2017, ahead of schedule, and increased the goal to 30% women in leadership by 2022.
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Clean water and sanitation
Water and Waste Management
Professional installation and maintenance of pipes can secure reliable and leakage-free access to water. Vectus Industries Limited, India’s leading pipe and water storage solution provider, uses SAP solutions to optimize its supply and distribution system to provide the best pipe solutions to utilities companies, communities, and local plumbers.
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Affordable and clean energy
Carbon Neutral by 2025
SAP shifted to 100% renewable energy in all of our data centers and facilities in 2014, as compared with 43% in 2013. Since this is one of our most significant actions to date to make our operations more sustainable, we extended our approach and are committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2025.
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Decent work and economic growth
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk, Ariba Network, SAP Ariba Discovery
These solutions empower customers like Fortesque Metals Group to source indigenous and minority-owned supplies, supporting workers and economic growth among underserved communities.
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Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Empowering Entrepreneurs
Empowering entrepreneurs with the tools and support to make their dreams a reality takes a team effort between nonprofits such as Endeavor Global Inc.; private enterprises such as Compartamos Banco and Adarsh Credit Co-operative Society Ltd.; and SAP. By joining forces, we are making it our vision and purpose to raise a new generation of innovators for Africa and the rest of the developing world.
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Reduced inequalities
SAP Ariba Sourcing and Procurement Suite, Ariba Network, SAP Ariba Discovery
Helping customers like Nedbank to work efficiently and to take advantage of synergies that enable them to support and develop minority small business owners as trading partners, reducing inequalities in South Africa.
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Sustainable cities and communities
Relief.io and Disaster Relief Collaboration Platform
The 1 Billion Lives Initiative Winning solution – Disaster Relief Collaborations Platform powered by SAP Ariba is an employee-led social business initiative that supports communities hit by natural disasters, making them inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
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Responsible consumption and production
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk, EcoVadis Partnership
By integrating the EcoVadis platform to Ariba Network, customers have access to a complete picture of a supplier and can make decisions that drive responsible consumption and production.
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Climate action
Meteo Protect and Insurance Solutions
Mateo Protect is providing companies around the globe with customized insurance solutions to help offset the punitive financial impact of climate change. It is part of the SAP Startup Focus program and uses the SAP HANA platform to monitor weather, analyze its historical patterns, and address its risks.
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Life below water
A Blueprint for Change
In coordination with the UK Plastics Pact and its many members, we’ve come up with a solution that incorporates what we know best – data. We knew there is a tremendous amount of data within the plastics industry. But there was no single source of that data.
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Life on land
Paperless Supply Chain Collaboration
SAP Ariba is enabling paperless supply chain collaboration with all suppliers and is managing sourcing for both direct and indirect spend on a single platform, driving greater efficiency and price clarity.
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Peace, justice and strong institutions
Helping governments analyze and use data
In South Africa, Italy, and the United States, SAP is helping governments analyze and use data to coordinate responses from public safety services and improve citizen engagement.
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Partnerships for the goals
MIAFW, Verisk Maplecroft, World Economic Forum
SAP Ariba has multiple partnerships that work to support the Sustainable Development Goals by integrating inherent risk data for a full range of sustainability indicators (Environmental, Social, Governance), creating more transparent, sustainable, and ethical global supply chains.
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With SAP Ariba Supplier Risk, you can help your buyers make smarter, safer decisions before purchase, simply by making risk due diligence a natural part of the procurement process.
Learn moreAriba Network
Ariba Network is a dynamic, digital marketplace where millions of buyers and diverse suppliers, operating in more than 190 countries, trade USD 2.1 trillion in goods and services each year.
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