REC Silicon: Customer Reference Video

REC Silicon is an emerging leader in the raw materials that supply the solar energy industry. Discover how this dynamic company is using SAP for Chemicals to achieve process efficiencies, enable executive decision making, and foster innovation.

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    • REC Silicon is part of an integrated value chain that specializes in the solar industry. So REC Silicon prepares raw material and feedstock, polysilicon, and silane gas to supply through the chain for wafer manufacturing all the way to solar modules. REC Silicon's been faced with a good problem to have in that we've had an exponential growth trajectory. It was very clear that we would not want to try to extend the systems, and more particularly, the processes, that were legacy in our environment into the different facilities that we'd began to build across the world. They just weren't extensible. So it was pure and simple: We had to do something to tie our organization together, implement best-practice processes that we could rely on, and thus ensure accurate data, timely data, the ability to make decisions quickly, and provide the resources to make those decisions to the executive organization. We have really focused on process efficiencies across the organization, whether that's within the finance function or within production planning. And when we look at the business benefits that we will derive out of the SAP implementation, it has a lot to do with eliminating manual steps throughout our processes. Frankly, a great example is, as we went down the implementation of FICO, we launched, we started to see period-end close cycles take less and less time. The system, and the process, frankly, was no longer the bottleneck. We experienced some very rapid success in consolidation of accounts payable, and those kinds of functions that were pretty geographically separated. We were now getting economies of process out of just the simple, first implementation. We also implemented a solution called SAP MII, and through that, provided real-time visibility to our executive layer about how the plants were running. Very rapid implementation. But the ability to have a finger on the pulse of our production processes and be that close to the production process, it was huge for our executive folks, because we are literally making very rapid decisions about where we go next and how we continue to fulfill the demand throughout our value chain. And so we have this visibility and we can redirect production as needed. It's fantastic. SAP has helped bring innovation into this organization in several ways. First, it's provided a platform for information delivery that we didn't have before. I mentioned SAP MII. Here's a dashboard that we can provide to our executives. And as people have started to see some of the possibilities, wheels start to crank and the creative juices start to flow. And it's, what else can we do with this platform to become either more efficient, get closer to the information, or present the information in a more relevant and a meaningful way? It's actually been a dramatic shift.
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  • NameREC Silicon Inc.
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