To be efficient and competitive, chemical manufacturers need to manage your business in real time. Everyone from the plant floor to the top floor, across departments, needs to collaborate and react quickly to changing business and production events. Analytical tools should be easily at hand for everyone in the organization to contribute to cost savings and greater customer responsiveness. For a chemical company looking to cut costs, gain greater control and insight into manufacturing, and maintain or improve customer satisfaction, SAP offers solutions.

With SAP solutions, chemical companies can:

• Create a direct, real-time connection between shop-floor systems and business operations
• Analyze performance from shift-to-shift, and across plants, to identify and take advantage of best practices
• Provide a collaborative environment centered on roles-based dashboards to enable rapid response to business and manufacturing events
• Enable detailed and, if needed, real-time financial analysis of decisions and the cost/benefit to the organization

SAP solutions for visibility and performance management provide an effective foundation for continuous improvement for a single plant or for the entire enterprise. With SAP, chemical companies can reduce waste and costs, identify new sources of revenue in byproducts, increase quality, and improve customer response time – either individually or as part of a broad program.

For more information about solutions that support visibility and performance management for chemical companies, read about SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence, SAP for Chemicals, SAP ERP Operations, and SAP and Business Objects.