SAP for Chemicals enables you to manage your manufacturing process from planning through execution. You can create feasible and optimized equipment-assignment plans that take into account available material, capacity constraints, and production resources. Moreover, you can use SAP solutions to link plant systems with business systems to enable real-time response to manufacturing events and trends.

SAP for Chemicals covers the key activities involved in manufacturing management, including:

• Visibility and performance management – Merge plant control systems with your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to deliver real-time plant and business information tailored to user roles, in a collaborative work environment.
• Planning and scheduling – Gain the visibility and control needed to match production plans with supply, demand, and business priorities – with the goal of driving overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
• Enterprise asset management – Improve all aspects of managing your plant's fixed assets – including depreciation; the management of and purchasing of maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) items; maintenance history; and maintenance based on predictive or preventative measures – plus scheduling and execution of work orders.
• Quality management – Address all quality aspects of raw materials and manufactured products, including purchased products. You can even set up a laboratory information management system (LIMS).
• Regulatory compliance – Reduce the administrative overhead of EH&S and related regulatory compliance, while minimizing the risk of non-compliance.
• Energy management – Identify means to cut costs and support more sustainable manufacturing.
• Contract manufacturing – Achieve effective contract manufacturing with tight control and visibility into production.

With SAP for Chemicals, you can reduce capital expenditure, improve inventory availability and equipment use, reduce maintenance costs, and benefit from better quality and improved operational control. The solution portfolio enables manufacturing agility while retaining a focus on operational excellence. To learn more, read about SAP's concepts of adaptive manufacturing and the perfect plant (PDF).

Manufacturing planning and execution is enabled with applications such as SAP Product Lifecycle Management, SAP ERP and SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII). To find out how these applications can help you improve your manufacturing planning and execution, please contact us.