2015 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $100 million
Consolidated
U.S. TMC: BCD Travel
A
companywide effort to reduce SAP's business travel bore fruit in 2015,
according to a BTN estimate, with U.S.-booked
air volume dropping in 2015 even amid acquisitions and an increase in the
business management technology firm’s revenue. Among SAP’s recent acquisitions
is travel booking and expense management provider Concur Technologies; that
deal closed in December 2014.
SAP
plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 2000 levels by 2020. The
company has targeted business travel as a key driver for this goal and reduced
the amount of carbon dioxide generated by travel from 281 kilotons in 2014 to
237 kilotons in 2015. In the second half of 2015, SAP began to offset some
business air travel in the United States, resulting in a compensation of 35 kilotons
of carbon dioxide. SAP has made available to all employees a sustainability
dashboard originally developed for senior leadership that shows how
department-level business travel contributes to the overall carbon footprint.
The company also continues to invest in virtual conferencing technology as a
means to reduce travel, including the development of more than 100
collaboration rooms and the installation of 360-degree cameras in more than
1,200 meeting spaces.
Revenue
increased 18 percent in 2015 to €20.8 billion. The company employed just shy of
77,000 people at the end of 2015, up 3 percent.