SAP Sustainability Control Tower
by SAP · ESG & Sustainability
AI-assisted ESG data management and CSRD/ESRS reporting built around SAP data.
Updated August 2026 · By the ERP Research Editorial Team · Independent and vendor-neutral.
- Works with
SAP S/4HANANon-SAP ERP- Deployment
- Cloud
- Company size
- Mid-market, Enterprise
- Pricing
- Quote-based
- Founded
- 1972
- Headquarters
- Walldorf, Germany
Overview
SAP Sustainability Control Tower is SAP's cloud-based ESG data management and reporting solution. It centralizes sustainability and ESG performance data and uses embedded AI to support auditable compliance, aiming to embed sustainability into core business operations rather than run it as a separate, spreadsheet-driven process. It is built to sit alongside core SAP systems such as S/4HANA so ESG reporting can draw on the same enterprise data foundation as financial and operational reporting.
The product is organized around four capability areas: a reporting foundation for configuring and managing ESG metrics using SAP-delivered or custom definitions, scoped by materiality assessments; data sourcing and collection tools that consolidate ESG data from both SAP and third-party systems through guided workflows and open APIs; performance-insight dashboards that let organizations analyze ESG metrics alongside financial and operational KPIs by business unit, location, or time period; and AI-assisted ESG report generation, which drafts complete reports from prebuilt templates aligned to standards such as the EU's ESRS and EU Taxonomy for users to edit and publish.
SAP positions the tool primarily around EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) compliance and related frameworks, and has also run content covering US state-level climate-disclosure laws (California SB 253/261). Customers referenced by SAP include The Tyrolit Group (CSRD reporting across 48 group companies), KNAPP AG, CP Foods, and Fundacao Amazonia Sustentavel, spanning manufacturing, logistics, food, and nonprofit/conservation use cases. SAP offers a 30-day free trial on a shared tenant preloaded with sample data.
Screenshots & demo
Demo video from the vendor's YouTube channel. Screenshots sourced from SAP.
Features & capabilities
Sustainability Reporting Foundation
Configure and scope ESG metrics against regulatory reporting requirements.
- Configure, calculate, and manage ESG metrics using SAP-delivered or custom definitions
- Incorporate materiality assessment results into the reporting scope
- Translate regulatory requirements into ESG metric selection
- Granular data models with ESRS-aligned metric definitions
- Extend the metric catalog with custom calculations, templates, and APIs
Data Sourcing & Collection
Consolidate ESG data from SAP and third-party systems.
- Stream ESG data from SAP and non-SAP systems via open APIs
- Define what, how, when, and by whom ESG data is collected
- Configure data collection runs based on reporting scope
- Guided data-entry workflows with assigned processors and reviewers
- Customizable data collection forms with progress monitoring across reporting periods
Performance Insights & Business Steering
Analyze ESG performance alongside financial and operational data.
- Interactive dashboards with granular filters for trend analysis
- Visualize ESG performance by business unit, location, or time period
- Analyze ESG metrics alongside financial and operational KPIs
- The "Our Ambitions" app for tracking progress against sustainability goals and targets
AI-Assisted ESG Report Generation
Draft and publish regulatory-aligned ESG reports.
- Prebuilt report templates aligned to ESRS, EU Taxonomy, and other standards
- AI-powered automation to generate complete draft ESG reports
- Edit, refine, and collaborate on AI-generated report content before publishing
- Integration with SAP and partner disclosure tools to tag, validate, and publish reports
Common use cases
- Achieving CSRD-compliant ESG reporting across dozens of legal entities within one group (as with The Tyrolit Group's 48 companies)
- Responding to an urgent EU CSRD mandate by centralizing ESG data collection and reporting workflows (as with KNAPP AG)
- Tracking farm-to-table sustainability metrics across an agro-industrial and food supply chain (as with CP Foods)
- Centralizing, monitoring, and analyzing ESG data for transparency and strategic decision-making in a conservation/nonprofit context (as with Fundacao Amazonia Sustentavel)
- Generating AI-drafted ESG reports aligned to ESRS and EU Taxonomy from prebuilt templates
- Combining SAP and non-SAP source data into one materiality-based reporting scope via open APIs
- Monitoring sustainability targets and ambitions against actual performance through the Our Ambitions app
Strengths & considerations
Strengths
- AI-assisted drafting generates complete ESG report drafts from templates prebuilt for ESRS and EU Taxonomy, rather than requiring fully manual report assembly
- Built to source enterprise ESG and business data directly from SAP S/4HANA and other SAP systems, keeping ERP data at the core of reporting
- Open APIs let non-SAP data sources be consolidated into the same reporting scope alongside SAP data
- Materiality-assessment-driven reporting scope ties regulatory requirements directly to metric selection
ERP integrations
Sources enterprise-wide ESG and operational data directly from SAP S/4HANA and other SAP systems for reporting and performance insights.
Open APIs bring together ESG data from non-SAP systems and third-party sources into the same reporting scope.
Pricing
SAP does not publish list pricing for the full product. A 30-day free trial is available on a shared tenant with sample data, but it excludes key-user administration, master data management, and integration/customization rights. Get an independent shortlist with pricing guidance below.
Technical & security
- Hosting
- SAP-hosted cloud (SaaS, shared/multi-tenant)
About the vendor
- Founded
- 1972
- Headquarters
- Walldorf, Germany
- Employees
- ~100,000+ (SAP total)
- Ownership
- Public (NYSE: SAP, XETRA: SAP)
- Notable customers
- The Tyrolit Group, KNAPP AG, CP Foods, Fundacao Amazonia Sustentavel
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SAP Sustainability Control Tower — frequently asked questions
What regulatory frameworks does SAP Sustainability Control Tower support?
It is built around EU CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), ESRS (European Sustainability Reporting Standards), and EU Taxonomy reporting, with prebuilt metric definitions and report templates aligned to those standards.
Does it require SAP S/4HANA?
The product draws heavily on data from SAP systems such as S/4HANA, but it also connects to non-SAP data sources through open APIs, so ESG data can be consolidated from third-party systems alongside SAP data.
Can I try SAP Sustainability Control Tower before buying?
Yes. SAP offers a 30-day free trial on a shared tenant preloaded with sample data, though it excludes key-user administration, master data management, and integration/customization rights available in the full product.
How does the AI in SAP Sustainability Control Tower work?
It uses AI-assisted drafting to generate complete draft ESG reports from prebuilt templates aligned to regulatory frameworks, which users then edit, refine, and collaborate on before publishing.
Who uses SAP Sustainability Control Tower?
Customers cited by SAP include The Tyrolit Group (CSRD compliance across 48 group companies), KNAPP AG, CP Foods, and Fundacao Amazonia Sustentavel, spanning manufacturing, logistics, food, and nonprofit/conservation use cases.
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