Carbon Footprint Inventory

Hey, following up on the sustainability webinar on 15 February (thanks for that!):
is there any way to get acquainted with SAP's Carbon Footprint tool?
I.e., how is it connected to the underlying data warehouse (BW?), what are the data sources, is there a 'best practice' architecture (or not yet maybe?), how do you store and maintain carbon emission factors, where did you take these from (GHG protocol?) etc.
I have been reading into carbon footprint estimation, and my current (non-data-warehouse) approach involves a lot of excel
spreadsheets and a lot of manual scrolling through standard emission factors literature. I guess the big advantage of having an underlying data warehouse is a more automated and less painful data input, so I'm interested in how this actually works in the SAP methodology.
Thanks!
Patricia

Patricia:
Thanks for the feedback, and excellent follow-up questions. With only an hour, we barely dented the surface of the business processes beneath the data collection, validation and presentation layers (I also want to point out Jonas Dennler's contribution during the webcast). Michael should be able to share the slides, and I'm sure there are white papers on the methodologies used.
Links you might find helpful:
[SAP Mentor Monday page|http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SAPMentors/SAP%20Mentor%20Monday]
[Webcast replay|https://sap.na.pgiconnect.com/p85845891/]
[Webcast chat|http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SAPMentors/ChatfromSustainability+15-Feb-2010] - feel free to add comments
I also have an MP3 audio recording of the webcast:
ASUG member access only - [podcast|http://www.asug.com/Default.aspx?tabid=124&vp_url=http://jive.asug.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/38-5976/Buettler_Jonas_Spath_20100215.mp3] - 44MB
SDN upload - coming soon
Jim

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