Celonis Sustainability Solution Suite: All you need to demonstrate business value from sustainability initiatives

Businesses’ sustainability drive has, ironically, cooled down in recent years. After setting lofty sustainability targets, companies have now realized the magnitude of achieving them – especially with limited budgets to fund these initiatives. Scopes have since been scaled back as businesses have shifted from ambition to realism.

What hasn't gone away, however, are sustainability regulations. In fact, they’ve multiplied. Today’s line-up of existing, changing, or incoming regulations includes CSRD, CBAM, CSDDD, LKSG, EU Taxonomy, EU DR, Ecodesign, to name a few. Factor in demand from persistently environmentally conscious consumers – 30% of whom have stopped purchasing from certain brands and products because of sustainability-related concerns – and you get a sense of the pressure on sustainability stakeholders’ shoulders.

Help has arrived at just the right time. Celonis has launched Solution Suites, packaging all the tools you need to get to value at the pace your business requires and in the right areas. The Celonis Sustainability Solution Suite, announced at our Celonis:Next 2025 product showcase, contains out-of-the-box tools that bring process intelligence and AI to your business. Here’s how it works.

Introducing the Celonis Sustainability Solution Suite

Relying on manual, inefficient spreadsheets for sustainability reporting? Resorting to narrow, limited tools that don’t play well with the rest of the tech stack? The Sustainability Solution Suite changes all that by lassoing all the different tracking, measurement, and reporting requirements in one powerful platform. Integrating seamlessly, providing actionable insights, and driving continuous process improvements.

The Suite is the connective tissue between your supply chain and emissions data, so you can not only capture accurate insights but also turn data into decisions with actions that drive sustainability and business goals, ultimately helping your organization demonstrate the business value of sustainability initiatives.

It’s all thanks to Process Intelligence. With the help of process mining, sustainability data and KPIs are extracted and standardized from business systems, then fed into pre-built dashboards for analysis and enabling action to be taken on specific use cases. This live, continuous, and objective flow of data enables organizations to keep sustainability aligned with profitability, and adapt to evolving demands and regulatory changes.

Take Procurement and Logistics leaders, for example. They can use the Suite to quantify emissions and identify actions to reduce them, such as changing to alternative suppliers with lower emissions per material, all without affecting operations. The Suite can even automate these optimizations for you, meeting sustainability goals without compromising teams’ productivity.

The result? Increased transparency, enhanced corporate compliance, and audit-ready reporting. This empowers sustainability stakeholders to demonstrate the business value of ESG improvements, such as spend reduction, across the organization.

Putting all this into context, German energy leader ENERVIE Gruppe used Celonis to track CO2 emissions (all 250,000+ tons of it) across 2,800+ suppliers and €450M spend. This would’ve been a Herculean effort had it not been for Celonis’ automations, enabling improved reporting, sustainable supplier engagement, carbon-conscious purchasing, and cost savings.

So that’s the overview of the Sustainability Solution Suite. Now let’s unbox it.

What’s in the Celonis Sustainability Solution Suite?

Kit out your business with these targeted capabilities built to surface and activate impactful sustainability insights.

Production-ready sustainability apps

The Suite puts Celonis’ sustainability-specific apps – ready as-is or customizable to your needs – at your fingertips. They’re easy to deploy and easy to use, purpose-built to orchestrate your most high-value opportunities, including:

• Material Emissions App: Automatically measure, report, and reduce Scope 3 material emissions by intelligently mapping materials from purchasing systems to emission factors.
• Shipping Emissions Reduction App: Calculate carbon emissions using granular operational data, simulate carbon savings, and take proactive actions to reduce emissions.
• Sustainable Spend Management App: Evaluate suppliers’ ESG performance metrics, mitigate vendor risk, and accelerate rating coverage to boost sustainable spend.
• CBAM App Powered by Ventum: Automate reporting and apply mitigation strategies for the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) regulation.

Having these capabilities pre-built means your organization can rapidly roll out sustainability optimizations.

AI-powered capabilities

AI development is the next layer of the Sustainability Solution Suite, which you can apply to your custom sustainability challenges. Customers across industries are using AI, powered by Process Intelligence, to build copilots, assistants, and agents that help reduce waste through excess inventory, for example.

Sustainability value and improvement insights can get lost in the unwieldy chaos of unstructured data bound up in PDFs or free text fields – but the Suite has something for that, too. Celonis AI Annotation Builder uses GenAI to triage structured and unstructured data and generate recommendations. This no-code tool allows users to define rules in natural language, so it’s even easier to access and automate AI-driven sustainability improvements.

Annotation Builder is joined in the Suite by Optimization Engine and Network Explorer, which help model and solve more complex sustainability challenges across your supply chain operations using advanced algorithms and total transparency over process relationships.

Pre-defined process data and business context

Talking of transparency, one of the Suite’s most powerful components is the Process Intelligence Graph. This live, interrogable digital twin of your operations enriches raw process data (relating to customs clearance, supplier selection, shipments and delivery, for example) with business context and KPIs relevant to sustainability (such as Scope 3 emissions, supplier rating, and order compliance).

The Process Intelligence Graph also layers in standardized process knowledge from a decade of experience comprising thousands of sustainability deployments. All of which means this data layer allows you to clearly see what’s influencing and impacted by different processes across your operations, so you can take precise action for sustainability optimizations.

Process connectors to critical systems

How does the Suite extract the data to create this enterprise-wide operational view? That’s where connectors come in.

Pre-built connectors make the Suite system-agnostic, quickly and easily ingesting data from your critical source systems. By leveraging the Celonis data layer for existing ERPs to connect to the systems you already use, the Suite creates a common language of how your business runs.