Chemicals

Deliver innovative products while mitigating supply chain and financial risks with leaner processes and shorter time to market.
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Optimize performance and accelerate innovation in the chemical industry

Accelerate innovation, achieve superior market agility, and drive sustainable growth with SAP Business Suite.

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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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

    Discover SAP Business Suite

    See how SAP cloud ERP applications, SAP Business AI, and SAP Business Data Cloud come together to deliver exceptional value for your organization.

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    Resources

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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.

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    How AI transforms the chemical industry

    Learn about AI’s potential for improving efficiency and competitiveness in the chemical sector.

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    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.

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    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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    Connect with SAP industry experts

    Get advice on how to drive cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth with our innovative industry solutions.

    Explore packages and pricing

    Choose modular, AI-enabled solutions tailored to your business priorities—finance, supply chain, HR, procurement, or sales—and grow at your pace.

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    Browse upcoming strategies and advancements across SAP products and industries—and get the insight you need to plan your strategy with confidence.

    Frequently asked questions

    Chemical industry segments can include basic and petrochemicals, specialties/downstream products, agrochemicals, industrial gases, and recycling and new energy materials.

    ERP integrates supply chain, production, financials, sales, human resources, and other data to streamline operations, enhance data visibility, improve supply chain efficiency, and support compliance and innovation.

    SAP Business AI can enhance your customers’ buying experience by intelligently guiding them, in clear conversational language, to the best and most profitable product variations. It can dramatically reduce risks from supply chain challenges like natural disasters, volatility in pricing and demand, or disrupted transportation using predictions and real-time insights from external data. In terms of sustainability, AI can you help you eliminate waste in manufacturing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by adjusting your energy use and recommend the most efficient mix of materials.

    SAP Business Suite for chemicals is a fully integrated, modular set of solutions that helps companies in the chemicals industry connect and optimize every function across their business. Key business areas include customer engagement and co-innovation, planning and sourcing, integrated operations management, delivery and service, finance, and human capital management. It integrates AI, data, and applications into one unified system, creating a continuous cycle of value that drives business transformation.

    *Mike Lowndes, Sandy Shen, Jason Daigler, Aditya Vasudevan, “Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce,” Gartner, November 6, 2024.

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