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

charles_manager
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 23:26:39 +0000

Don’t forget about temporal aspects. Carbon footprint data changes as suppliers update their processes or as you switch materials. Your API should support time-based queries so consumers can retrieve historical snapshots. We use effective-date parameters in our requests and maintain versioned sustainability records in SAP PLM. This is essential when partners need to report carbon data for products manufactured months or years ago under different supply chain conditions.