Environmental Assessment and Life Cycle Collaboration integrated in E-Business Solutions

Abstract

The present legislation of the European Union as well as the environmental responsibility will increase the number of companies, who want to execute Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) of their product in order to full fill future legislative requirements or to improve the environmental soundness of their products. The current instruments for LCAs are only isolated solutions and not integrated in the product development processes. The integration into the day to day development work can only be realised by using information and data which is already kept in the company. This article describes an approach for an LCA Tool integrated into the SAP E-Business Solutions