Best practices for designing sustainability APIs to expose carbon footprint data in SAP PLM

amitsage
Thu, 22 May 2025 10:15:00 +0000

We’re building custom REST APIs to expose product carbon footprint and sustainability metrics from SAP PLM 2020 to external reporting systems and partner portals. I’m looking for experiences around key design decisions.

Should we expose raw material-level data or pre-aggregated product totals? How do you handle API versioning when carbon calculation methodologies evolve? What’s the right approach for maintaining audit trails when external systems consume this data?

Our sustainability management module tracks emissions across the entire product lifecycle, and we need APIs that balance flexibility for analytics with compliance requirements for immutable reporting. Would love to hear how others have approached this.