Chemicals
Optimize performance and accelerate innovation in the chemical industry
Accelerate innovation, achieve superior market agility, and drive sustainable growth with SAP Business Suite.
Our solutions for the chemical industry help you:
Improve strategic agility in response to market dynamics.
Increase operational and financial efficiency.
Optimize supply chain and manufacturing elasticity.
Differentiate through customer engagement and co-innovation.
Ensure supply chain and manufacturing elasticity
Form resilient supply chain and manufacturing processes by responding instantly to changing supply, demand, or disruptions to ensure deliveries are on time.
Increased operational and financial efficiency
Cut costs and boost performance by streamlining processes, optimizing resources, reducing waste, and improving productivity.
Improved strategic agility
Optimize your product portfolio to adapt to raw material price changes, market demands, and regulations, including mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Support sustainable value chains and compliance
Improve sustainability by adapting confidently to shifting regulations with built-in compliance for 100+ countries.
Explore chemical industry software
Achieve cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth with solutions that address chemical industry needs.
Product portfolio optimization with AI
Adapt to changing prices, markets, and regulations with an AI copilot that helps you:
Quickly adapt workflow to shifting prices, demand and regulations.
Boost productivity with AI copilots across SAP cloud apps.
Empower developers to build AI agents tailored to business needs.
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Intelligent product recommendation
Recommend the best-fitting product or configuration based on customer needs using historical data and machine learning.
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Product compliance
Ensure compliance throughout the product lifecycle with automated compliance processes integrated with SAP Business Suite.
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Customer experience management
Fuel profitable growth and turn every customer interaction into a seamless, engaging experience by uniting your business processes end to end.
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Price f(x)
Set optimal list prices and manage the rebate process to maximize your organization’s pricing power.
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Loftware integrated operations management
Transform your digital supply chain with Loftware's certified SAP labeling solutions with your move to S/4HANA Cloud and SAP BTP.
Demand-driven digital business planning and sourcing
Stay ahead of change and build a resilient supply chain to:
Tightly coordinate planning processes with automation.
Simplify planning capabilities through advanced machine learning algorithms.
Gain intelligent visibility across the supply chain by integrating with SAP Supply Chain Control Tower.
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Modern procurement
Increase purchasing power and drive sustainable savings using AI-driven processes and embedded intelligent insights.
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Supply chain collaboration
Collaborate with shippers and carriers to optimize logistics processes, increase on-time deliveries, and mitigate supply risk with a global network of trading peers.
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Sourcing and contract management
Optimize costs, manage risks, and realize negotiated savings with spend management solutions.
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Carbon Minds
Ensure ISO compliance with data for carbon footprints and environmental assessments.
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Ecovadis
Ensure sustainable purchasing decisions with integrated business sustainability ratings.
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Camelot planner and designer
Increase supply chain efficiency with touchless and innovative production planning.
Digital manufacturing
Support agile operations and a sustainable workforce on a single platform to:
Empower your workforce to make the right decisions and coordinate work.
Manage the entire lifecycle of your physical assets.
Assess and mitigate risks, manage incidents, and oversee change processes.
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Environmental management
Provide an auditable process to ensure environmental compliance while identifying opportunities to reduce emissions and waste.
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Asset management
Plan, schedule, and execute maintenance and service operations better by integrating intelligent technologies.
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Production planning and scheduling
Create production plans and schedules based on business sales, operations, and inventory plans with instant feedback loops.
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Wipro Shutdown Turnaround (STO) 360
Accelerate STO activities, reduce costs, and support cross-department collaboration with standardized processes and tools to support industry best practice.
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Asint Asset Inspection
Boost operational efficiency, mitigate risks, and manage assets holistically with centralized asset inspection and condition monitoring.
Order promising
Boost resilience and avoid business disruptions with AI that helps you:
Improve service levels with allocation management.
Manage shortages and priority-based order promising.
Enable intelligent decisions based on analytics.
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Logistics collaboration
Streamline logistics and warehouse operations through efficient collaboration with a global network of carriers and logistics service providers.
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Extended warehouse management
Manage high-volume warehouse operations and integrate complex supply chain logistics with a comprehensive warehouse management system.
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Transportation management
Reduce complexity, increase efficiency, and improve agility by integrating fleet and logistics management throughout your network.
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Descartes MarcoPoint
React quickly to supply chain disruptions with tools to view, analyze, predict, and communicate the status of any shipment in real time.
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Project44
Enable predictive ETAs and alerts within SAP Business Network for logistics.
Financial operations management
Empower your finance team with real-time financial data to:
Make AI-assisted decisions using data and predictive analytics.
Shorten reporting cycles and increase productivity with automated, AI-driven finance processes.
Decrease days sales outstanding, bad debt write-offs, and costs.
Grow confidently with risk mitigation and streamlined compliance standards.
Get clear cash visibility, manage payments, and mitigate financial risks.
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Compliance and tax management
Achieve effective management of regulations through compliance, risk mitigation, and controls
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Sustainability reporting and management
Connect sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data with ERP-centric solutions for data-driven decisions.
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AI-based invoice and payment matching
Accelerate the processing of incoming payments to reduce days sales outstanding and improve customer service performance.
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Avalara AvaTax for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition
Save time, reduce errors, and cut accounting costs with automated sales tax calculation and compliance tools.
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SAP Intercompany Governance by BlackLine
Manage volatility, support mergers and acquisitions, and foster accounting compliance with complex regulations
Core HR and payroll
A unified, global HR and payroll system enables you to:
Drive compliance by establishing a single source of truth.
Increase productivity with AI-enabled self-service tools and proactive alerts.
Offer end-to-end benefits that meet unique, country-specific requirements.
Pay employees accurately and on time in more than 50 countries with embedded localization
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Talent acquisition
Attract and hire the best talent with a single, AI-enabled recruiting solution.
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Travel and expense management
Automate and streamline travel and expense management processes on one connected system.
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HR with AI
Transform the way employees work, managers manage, and organizations adapt with intelligent HCM solutions.
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ATOSS Staff Efficiency Suite
Boost effectiveness and productivity, improve service levels and product quality and respond quickly by forecasting and scheduling your workforce.
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Paradox Text Recruiting Automation and Conversational AI
Reduce recruiting workloads, shorten hiring cycles, and improve conversion rates with AI-driven text communications and scheduling.
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Eightfold Talent Intelligence Platform
Maximize hiring quality with AI tools to find ideal candidates, surface candidates based on their skills, and improve decision making in the hiring process.
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SAP Business AI for chemicals
Learn how companies in the chemical industry are using SAP Business AI to help predict market demand, plant equipment failures, deviations in quality, and unforeseen safety hazards.
How AI transforms the chemical industry
Learn about AI’s potential for improving efficiency and competitiveness in the chemical sector.
Chemical sector growth, AI adoption, and regulatory challenges
The chemical industry appears braced for growth, according to a 2024 survey of subscribers to the American Chemistry Council’s SmartBrief newsletter, conducted in partnership with SAP.
How AI is reshaping chemical manufacturing
Discover the impact of AI on the chemical industry and how companies in this sector are stepping up with innovative investments and technologies.
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