Are everyday business challenges preventing you from focusing on profitable growth? Many midsize chemical companies are finding that keeping up with operating cost, pricing and margin pressure, regulatory compliance, and customer demand can keep them from more their strategic objectives: innovation and time to market. No wonder operational efficiency is top of mind.

Improve efficiency, and you can make faster, smarter decisions. Respond quickly to market changes. Control your cost structure. And consistently meet performance standards. But to manage operational complexities, you need to consolidate IT systems with SAP solutions – integrating processes to:

• Bring innovative products to market quickly
• Optimize prices and margins
• Align your global supply chain at strategic and tactical levels
• Enhance customer service and order fulfillment
• Maximize asset performance and utilization
• Plan and control your corporate performance – and align strategy and execution

SAP solutions give chemical companies like yours visibility, flexibility, and the power to innovate – to reduce operating costs, comply with regulations, and meet the needs of an increasingly demanding customer base. In fact, almost 2,000 chemical companies run SAP solutions. And did you know that 65% of SAP customers are midsize companies?

SAP can help you:

• Accelerate innovation, facilitate collaboration, reduce development costs, enhance your product portfolio, and reduce time to market for new products and formulations
• Analyze your customer/product portfolio, focus on the most profitable products and customers, and establish appropriate pricing and customer service levels
• Optimize asset utilization, customer satisfaction, and profitability through dynamic rebalancing of inventory levels
• Meet customer expectations for on-time and complete product deliveries, accurate billing, customized labeling, and "never run out" inventory, while reducing the need for expedited shipments
• Minimize fixed and operational production costs by ensuring the high availability and reliability of production assets and consistent product quality
• Improve strategy execution and free up time and resources by integrating financial and material planning processes at strategic and operational levels
• Avoid penalties and loss of company value, reputation – or even permit to operate – by ensuring compliance with EH&S, trade security, and financial regulations

Read about our customers:

• CABB
• CONDAT
• Tessenderlo Kerley
• Vertellus