SAP Sustainability Control Tower

What Spadoom delivers

We connect the sustainability data already sitting inside your SAP landscape to a single steering and reporting platform. The starting point is almost always carbon accounting — Scope 1, 2, and the relevant slices of Scope 3 — calculated from primary data: energy meters, fleet records, asset management, procurement spend, and travel data inside SAP ERP. From there we configure the CSRD and ESRS disclosure scope that applies to your sector and reporting boundary, build the ESG KPI dashboards that sit alongside your finance KPIs, and stand up the audit trail that turns “trust us” into “here is the source record”.

ERP integration is the part most ESG projects underestimate. SAP ships native data flows between Sustainability Control Tower and S/4HANA, SAP Asset Management, and SAP Ariba. We configure those flows end to end. No custom middleware. No quarterly extracts that go stale within a week.

We are based in the DACH region and deliver hands-on. Our consultants run discovery, design the data model, sit with your sustainability and finance teams during validation, and stay through the first reporting cycle. The goal is a control tower your team operates, not one we operate for you.

Why ESG reporting fails when bolted on

If you sit anywhere near sustainability reporting today, this list will sound familiar.

Carbon data lives in spreadsheets. The energy team owns one workbook, facilities owns another, the fleet sits in a third, and Scope 3 is a quarterly email exchange with procurement. Every reporting cycle is a scramble: numbers reconciled at month-end, assumptions re-explained, and a finance reviewer who has no way to tie any of it back to a primary source.

There are multiple sources of truth for the same emissions number. Group sustainability has one figure for a German plant, the plant has another, and the energy supplier reports a third. Nobody can say definitively which is right, because none of them flow from the same underlying record.

Audit requests take weeks. The auditor asks for the calculation behind a single Scope 2 figure and the team spends ten days reassembling it from emails, PDFs, and a spreadsheet history. By the time the answer comes back, the auditor has moved on.

CSRD changes the rules. Disclosure is no longer voluntary, the data points are specified, and the audit standard is the same one your finance numbers face. ESG reporting that worked as a year-end exercise on top of Excel does not survive contact with that regime.

How Control Tower fixes that

The shift is structural, not cosmetic. Once sustainability data flows from the same ERP records that finance trusts, every disclosure has a single canonical source, visible to both sides, with an audit trail.

Scope 1 and 2 emissions calculate from primary ERP data. Energy consumption posts from meter readings or supplier invoices, fuel from fleet records, refrigerant losses from asset maintenance. The number on the dashboard ties back to a transaction you can open. Scope 3 categories — purchased goods, business travel, upstream transport — pull from procurement and travel data already inside the SAP backbone.

CSRD-aligned data models ship with the platform. The ESRS data points are pre-built. We configure which apply to your sector and your reporting boundary, and the disclosure structure is set. No bespoke spreadsheet templates that need rebuilding when the standard updates.

ESG metrics sit alongside finance KPIs in the same workspace. Governance and social indicators — board diversity, lost-time injury rate, supplier audit coverage — are visible to the executive team next to revenue and EBITDA, not in a separate appendix the board sees once a year.

Audit-grade traceability is the layer most teams have never had. Every figure on the dashboard is linked to its source records. When the auditor asks why Scope 2 is what it is, the answer is two clicks away.

Implementation in practice

We deliver via SAP Activate methodology — discovery, prepare, explore, realize, deploy, run. An initial CSRD-aligned reporting scope on top of SAP S/4HANA typically runs 8–16 weeks. Broader Scope 3 modelling, supplier data integration, and a wider set of ESRS topics extend that.

Discovery scopes the disclosure boundary: which entities, which ESRS topics are material, which Scope 3 categories matter, and which CSRD timeline applies to your group. Prepare locks the data model and the integration architecture with S/4HANA, Asset Management, and Ariba. Explore is where the data sources become the critical path — most projects underestimate the cleanup effort for emissions factor libraries and supplier mappings.

Realize covers configuration of the dashboards, integration build, and end-to-end testing against a known reporting period. Deploy is the cutover, with a hyper-care window through the first quarterly cycle. Run is steady-state — your team owns the operations.

There is a CX angle that is easy to miss. Customers increasingly ask for product-level carbon footprints, and a sales rep who answers “we’ll get back to you” loses to one who answers “here it is”. Where customer-facing sustainability claims need ESG backing — product passports, supplier-level emissions in a tender response, scope-3 commitments in a master agreement — Control Tower is the system of record that backs the claim. We connect that record to the SAP CX layer where the conversation happens.

What good looks like

A year in, what changed shows up in steady-state behaviour, not in a launch press release.

• Scope 1 and 2 emissions report monthly from primary ERP data. The figure on the executive dashboard ties back to transactions, not to a workbook.
• The CSRD report is ready before year-end, not in March. The disclosures pull from the same data the finance team is closing the books on.
• Governance and social metrics are visible to the executive team alongside revenue and EBITDA. ESG stops being a separate conversation.
• Audit requests for emissions calculations are answered in hours. The lineage is in the system.
• Procurement, sales, and product teams pull supplier and product-level emissions on demand — the data is no longer a quarterly favour from the sustainability team.

That is the steady state. It is operational, durable, and audit-ready by default.