SAP Enhances Its Sustainability Solution

SAP has announced the latest version of the SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management) application, which helps manufacturers create more preventative safety cultures. Aimed at companies in asset-intensive industries, new risk assessment capabilities help companies take proactive steps to avoid costly, dangerous incidents and keep operations up and running. In addition, the new sustainability solution from SAP has been extended with a mobile app, available on iTunes, that allows employees to report safety issues with their mobile devices.

Particularly for companies in high-risk industries such as oil and gas, mining or manufacturing, a proactive operational risk management strategy is the best way to safeguard against potentially catastrophic accidents. SAP has collaborated with companies in these industries to create a holistic, preventative EHS risk assessment approach that helps them to identify, track, analyse and reduce risks and incidents across their entire organisation. Integrated with SAP Business Suite software for asset and human capital management, the application makes it easier to achieve comprehensive risk oversight across disparate business processes.

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“Risk transcends departments, which is why SAP offers companies a way to manage operational risk not via point solutions but with a comprehensive, integrated approach that safeguards people, the environment and profits,” said Peter Graf, chief sustainability officer, SAP. “In this way, we link sustainability to all aspects of business operations and help companies enact a pre-emptive risk management strategy that’s embedded in day-to-day business processes.”

SAP has a three-step vision for operational risk management, which will help customers protect people, assets and the environment while safeguarding their bottom line. The first step is enabling organisations to report incidents and gain a company-wide picture of that information. The new SAP EHS Safety Issue mobile app also helps provides a 360-degree view of potential risks. Workers can log issues from their mobile device via voice, video or photograph, and send them directly to a safety manager for corrective action. In addition, SAP EHS Management 2.0 includes new reporting and dashboard capabilities that allow companies to quickly prioritise EHS risks by category and location.

The second step in an effective operational risk management strategy is helping companies to analyse risks and determine appropriate mitigation steps; SAP enables that with the new risk assessment features announced today. Third, companies must be able to manage change as they put those mitigation steps into place. SAP plans to introduce the SAP Management of Change application, an entirely new solution that aims to help companies more safely handle significant operational changes such as introducing new processes or equipment.