How Facchini is Automating Sustainability Reporting with SAP

Facchini S/A has begun implementing SAP Sustainability Control Tower to address a persistent challenge in its environmental and social reporting.

The Brazilian firm is the world’s seventh largest road equipment manufacturer and currently spends between three to four months collecting data for its annual sustainability report, largely through lengthy manual processes.

Control Tower will integrate seamlessly with the company's existing SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition system and will help Facchini to consolidate its environmental data, including its carbon inventory, water consumption, renewable energy usage and circularity.

SAP’s system will also allow Facchini to improve data collection on its social indicators, including diversity, inclusion and workplace safety, giving a well-rounded overview of the firm’s ESG performance.

Real-time data for strategic decisions

The automation represents a quite significant operational shift for Facchini, which operates 10 factories across Brazil and employs more than 6,400 people through its network of 30 distributors.

"Our biggest challenge has always been the consolidation of social and environmental data, which required a lot of time and manual effort," says Claudemir Brito, Sustainability and ESG Manager at Facchini.

"With SAP Sustainability Control Tower, we will have all metrics integrated, from carbon emissions and material circularity to social indicators of diversity and inclusion."

For Claudemir and the Facchini team, the hope is that the system will allow the company to produce sustainability snapshots and reports in real time, "turning them into a foundation for strategic management decisions".

Customer demands drive adoption

The implementation also addresses increasing pressure from domestic and international customers requiring detailed due diligence reports.

These questionnaires can contain up to 600 questions, with Facchini currently taking weeks to compile responses.

The new system is expected to reduce response times to just days, strengthening the company's position in markets with growing regulatory requirements.

Pedro Pereira, SAP's Sustainability Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, sees the technology as transformative for the often arduous process of corporate reporting.

"The unique value of the Sustainability Control Tower is to transform reports from annual documents to daily management tools," he explains.

"By integrating indicators directly into SAP's ERP, supported by artificial intelligence and automation tools, the company will have a predictive and strategic vision to accelerate its sustainable growth."

COP30 context amplifies focus

The announcement comes at a time when the eyes of the world are focused on Brazil’s sustainability, with COP30 currently underway in the coastal city of Belém. 

Jan Gilg, SAP Americas' CRO and President, connects Facchini’s investments to the conference's sixth pillar, which focuses on financing, technology and capacity building.

"Using the cloud-based SAP Sustainability Control Tower, Facchini S/A made data central to decision-making: aligning metrics, automating data management, and laying the foundation for a new wave of innovation powered by agentic AI," Jan explains.

The system will support several concrete targets, including Facchini's goal of reaching 100% renewable energy usage by 2026.

The company already reuses more than 95% of steel scrap generated in its manufacturing processes and has allocated over US$5m to community organisations and social projects over the past decade.

SAP indicates the consolidated data will eventually serve as context for AI agents designed to support strategy development and risk anticipation, though specific timelines for this functionality were not provided.