SAP BUSINESS ALL-IN-ONE FOR CHEMICALS

Your IT infrastructure has supported your company's growth. But can it support sustained profitable growth? With rising material and energy costs, shifting customer demands, and heightened regulatory pressures, that's the new challenge. How do you get the visibility, flexibility, and innovation power you need to:

• Successfully develop and launch new products – and use innovation as a competitive advantage
• Analyze costs and optimize pricing to boost profitability
• Plan demand, supply, inventory, and transportation requirements
• Optimize production schedules and lead times, and avoid production delays
• Reduce operational costs, increase asset utilization, and lower capital expenses
• Manage performance across regions, products, customer segments, and operational processes
• Monitor, document, and report on compliance initiatives without additional record-keeping and data-gathering

If you're thinking about these challenges, it's time to think about SAP.

SAP Business All-in-One for Chemicals: Integrate Operations. Increase Profits.

The SAP Business All-in-One for Chemicals solution combines proven SAP software with SAP Best Practices and "quick start" accelerators to help you gain visibility, flexibility, and control over every aspect of your business – from order processing, to recipe management, to analytics.

SAP Business All-in-One was created specifically for companies of your size, at a price you can afford. In fact, a solution to handle your core business processes is typically implemented in 4-5 months. And, because it's built on open standards, SAP Business All-in-One integrates smoothly with your existing systems – and supports modular deployment and your growth plan. So you can add to and adapt the solution as business needs change.

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SAP Business All-in-One for Chemicals is a complete solution for midsize chemical companies. Every part of the solution – from preconfigured manufacturing models to sales planning and material management functionality – is built with deep expertise based on 35 years of experience with nearly 2,000, chemical customers.

By integrating and streamlining your business processes with SAP Business All-in-One, you can:

• Speed product innovation to gain a competitive advantage – Manage innovation in your products and processes across your organization. Track new products throughout their life cycles – from idea generation and resting to scale up and commercialization – with integrated processes and supporting master data.
• Improve decision making – Ensure that management can easily see the status of recipe development, material safety data, plant trials, testing results, and inventory levels, enabling them to make better decisions about product release dates and prices.
• Boost profitability – Prioritize customer and product decisions based on profitability; track material costs to determine profitable pricing; and analyze customer segments, product lines, and geographies to identify the most profitable deals – and avoid less profitable ones.
• Reduce operating costs and capital expenditures – Increase asset utilization, reduce missed orders, lower capital expenses, and avoid production delays with better visibility into your supply chain, order status, and inventory levels. Better insight into plant conditions gives you more control over production and planning – even during unpredictable events.
• Comply with regulations without slowing production – Track product evaluations, authorizations, and restrictions; monitor by-product volumes and compositions; and document environmental, health, and safety data needed for governmental reporting.

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In the chemical industry, success begins with best practices – proven practices that have enabled successful companies to reduce operating costs, comply with regulations, and grow profitably in the midst of challenging business realities.

The SAP Business All-in-One for Chemicals solution includes SAP Best Practices, providing preconfiguration settings to handle your core business processes. With SAP Business All-in-One, you can become operational quickly with a system configured to meet your needs for:

• Manufacturing and execution
• Sales and distribution
• Storage tank management
• Consignment processing
• Recipe management
• Subcontracting
• Supply and demand planning
• Vendor-managed inventory management
• Dangerous-goods management
• Product-safety management
• Environment, health, and safety (EH&S) business compliance

Experience You Can Count On. Results You Can Measure.

With SAP Best Practices, you can take advantage of proven industry practices without reinventing the wheel. Developed in collaboration with 20 partners and industry associations, our best practices:

• Target key business performance metrics
• Are localized for specific regions
• Provide a solid foundation that can be adapted to meet your own unique processes and changing business needs

Plus, preconfigured software based on SAP Best Practices – along with our SAP ASAP Focus methodology and extensive documentation – make implementation fast and predictable. Your solution can be ready for use in 4-5 months, with tools to ensure successful end-user adoption and continuous improvement over time.

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With SAP Business All-in-One, you can introduce efficiency and automation into your core business operations. And because the solution is fully integrated, you can automate and streamline your entire business, end-to-end. Your SAP Business All-in-One solution includes:

• SAP ERP application – The same enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that runs Fortune 500 companies can integrate your core business processes, giving you a full view into your business operations. The software provides comprehensive support for managing financials, human resources, operations, and corporate services.
• SAP CRM functionality – Leveraging standardized best practices, SAP CRM empowers sales professionals with full visibility into the opportunity pipeline and sales performance, providing the tools and information they need to reduce the sales cycle, enhance revenue potential, and improve sales productivity.
• SAP NetWeaver platform – The SAP NetWeaver platform powers all SAP software, including SAP Business All-in-One solutions. As a standards-based, open technology platform, SAP NetWeaver ensures that you have a solution that can grow with your business. Partners can easily add industry-specific functionality or business processes to the system to help address your unique requirements.
• SAP Best Practices – Because SAP Business All-in-One comes with preconfigurations based on industry best practices, you don't need extensive customizations before streamlining processes and reducing costs. SAP Best Practices include the documentation, forms, and reports needed to get your system up and running quickly.

SAP Innovations

Recognizing your need for a comprehensive solution that can be easily implemented, adopted, and adapted to meet changing business requirements, SAP has further enhanced SAP Business All-in-One solutions with:

• An enhanced user experience driven by role-based navigation and a user-friendly interface
• Enhanced SAP Best Practices optimized for productivity and ease of doing business
• Extended functional capabilities designed to help midsize companies run their entire business
• Added extensibility by partners, enabling personalization and configuration to meet granular, industry-specific needs
• Streamlined implementation processes that offer a lower, more predictable total cost of ownership

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