2023 U.S.-Booked Air Volume: $37.5 million
Consolidated U.S. TMC: BCD Travel

BTN estimates enterprise resource software provider SAP spent $37.5 million in U.S.-booked air in 2023, as the company reached a milestone in its sustainability efforts.

SAP, whose products include market-dominant travel and expense reporting provider Concur, reported reaching carbon neutrality in its operations in 2023, with a combination of efforts to avoid, reduce and offset emissions. On the travel side, that has included an effort to avoid flights by investing in virtual collaboration technologies and charging an internal carbon price for business flights, which are charged to organizational cost centers. The practice began in 2016, and the carbon price per ticket increases every year. The fee helps finance SAP’s offset projects.

Travel and commuting made up 1 percent of SAP’s total 6.9 million metric tons of carbon emissions reported in 2023.

SAP reported €31.2 billion in total revenue in 2023, up 6 percent year over year. The company reported 107,600 full-time equivalent employees as of the end of 2023, up about 1,300 compared with 2022.