Thinking Sustainability in ERP Implementations

Jason Coe is a Project Management Professional, and he is currently employed at Accenture as an Associated Director in their Oracle Supply Chain practice. Jason has over 20 years’ experience delivering Oracle ERP projects. Jason has worked on three global ERP projects where he has implemented Oracle in 33 countries. In addition, he has physically visited 6 continents and over 20 countries. Jason holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology and Management from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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Topics: Organizational Culture, Sustainability, Knowledge Shelf

Globally, organizations have realized the need to become more sustainable, and this requires changing interactions with customers and suppliers. To meet the needs of sustainable reporting, an organization must embed sustainable practices in its buy, sale, manufacturing, and transfer transactions. It needs a robust reporting platform to analyze and summarize sustainable reporting.

Here I outline how project managers can embed sustainability practices in a new ERP implementation, or run a separate sustainability project for existing ERP systems.

Introduction
The goal of this article is to educate enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementors (SIs), project managers (PMs), and organizations with a philosophy on sustainability programs related to ERP.

First, we need to define ESG (environmental, social, and governance). We’ll think about how organizations are using sustainable practices, and how we need to define requirements for ERP programs. Since sustainability is so closely tied to supply chain, we’ll discuss the sustainable impact on supply chain, how to capture sustainable data, and how to use reporting tools to help manage it.

Environmental, Social, & Governance
ESG is a framework that helps stakeholders understand how an organization manages risks and opportunities around sustainability issues.¹

Environmental deals with the …

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