PLANNING & SOURCING service simultaneously . We helped them find a sweet spot whereby a certain volume goes by sea and a certain volume by air . It was a happy medium that allowed it to meet all of its goals .” The end result was that a lot more volumes could be shipped by sea which saves thousands of tons in CO2 emissions .
HOW DOES SAP HELP BUSINESSES WITH EMISSIONS ? Vallejo says that SAP business planning solutions help with emissions by encouraging companies to begin tracking data .
“ You can ’ t control anything you don ’ t track ,” he says . “ Everything in the supply chain is measurable and can be added into the planning environment . We encourage companies to think of tracking as being like a currency . You take all aspects of supply - transport , manufacturing , supplier footprint - and you track it all . When you onboard a supplier it shouldn ’ t be just about product quality and price . There should also be sustainability questions included in supplier questionnaires .”
He reminds us that this is not just for tier 1 suppliers , either - but also tier 2 and 3 : “ Who supplies your suppliers ? This is where the technology is evolving , so that it can propagate information downstream in the supply chain , and create standard ways and best practices to onboard suppliers with a view to delivering more-sustainable output .”
Having a sustainability dimension to data is something SAP takes very seriously . “ This is exactly why we believe such data should be treated just like a
DAVID VALLEJO
TITLE : SAP ’ S GLOBAL HEAD OF DIGITAL BUSINESS PLANNING VICE PRESIDENT
David Vallejo is globally responsible for solution management and go-to-market for SAP ’ s Digital Business Planning portfolio which includes SAP ’ s cloud flagship SAP Integrated Business Planning ( SAP IBP ). David helped many global companies define and implement their strategy around Supply Chain Planning and Execution and has been honored with the “ Prosto-Know ” award in 2014 by the Supply & Demand Chain Executive Board . David held various leadership roles within SAP , before assuming his current role also driving the successful launch of Ariba ’ s supply chain business network focusing on Direct Materials collaboration across the extended supply chain and driving the customer co-innovation program as product owner for SAP IBP .
Prior to joining SAP 8 years ago , David had several global leadership roles managing Customer Delivery , Solution Management and Product Management at E2open and icon-scm .