March 29, 2012: Danone and SAP Team Up to Analyze and Measure Carbon Footprint Across 35,000 Products
In 2008, Danone set an ambitious goal of a 30 percent global carbon footprint reduction by 2012 across the entire supply chain, including plants and factories, packaging and end-of-cycle disposal, transportation and storage. To meet this challenge, Danone and SAP have brought together their expertise and know-how to build an innovative solution that measures the company’s environmental footprint. “Existing solutions do not allow carbon footprint measurements to be integrated within IT operations systems across the whole product life cycle, for each and every product,” said Jean-Marc Lagoutte, CIO, IT Systems, Danone. “Danone has designed a unique carbon footprint measurement model and deployed a dedicated SAP platform globally. Since SAP is also strongly committed to sustainability and offers solutions that can serve as a basis for innovation in this area, working together quickly became the natural way to go.”
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