Chemicals
The future of the chemicals industry
To capitalize on growing demand, chemicals companies are modernizing planning, development, and production – and finding new ways to differentiate.
Chemical supply chain challenges
Extreme weather, geopolitics, and changing regulations are impacting chemical supply chains. Companies are using new tools to better anticipate disruption, simulate contingency plans, and mitigate risk.
Market and price volatility
Rising costs of energy and raw materials – combined with resource scarcity, demand fluctuations, and supply chain disruption – are creating high market and price volatility in the chemicals industry.
Focus on customer centricity
Chemicals customers have shifted from buying products to buying outcomes. For example, instead of a pesticide, they seek the promise of an abundant crop. Leaders are working as an ecosystem to deliver.
Green chemistry and sustainability
Chemicals producers play a key role in mitigating climate change, and investors are taking note. Commitments to net-zero emissions, the circular economy, and enabling their customer to reach their sustainability goals are center stage.
Digital transformation in the chemicals industry
Chemical manufacturers are under pressure to adopt advanced technology like AI and the Internet of Things (IoT) to co-innovate, better anticipate demand, and drive safety, efficiency, and agility.
Innovative solutions for the chemicals industry from SAP and our partners
Solutions that address specific needs for the chemicals industry help you achieve cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Transform and compete in the experience economy. SAP S/4HANA Cloud offers a framework to adopt best practices for the chemicals industry, enabling innovation and operational excellence within and beyond company boundaries.
SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain
Support real-time supply chain planning with capabilities for sales and operations; demand, response, and supply planning; and inventory optimization. The solution also offers analytics, what-if simulations, and alerts.
SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises
Measure, manage, and optimize your sustainability goals holistically. You can integrate data and processes to manage your carbon footprint, reduce material waste, and achieve social sustainability with a single license.
TrendMiner by Software AG
Democratize analytics with a self-service solution that enables subject matter experts to analyze, monitor, and predict operational performance in batch, grade, and continuous manufacturing.
CORE RBI for SAP Solutions by AsInt Inc
Perform risk-based inspection with a native app in SAP Intelligent Asset Management. Extending SAP Asset Strategy and Performance Management, the app helps you focus limited resources on critical items before an asset fails.
Descartes MacroPoint By Descartes Systems Group
Analyze, predict, and communicate the status of shipments in real time with a multimodal supply chain visibility solution used by industry leaders worldwide to consolidate and visualize visibility data of in-transit shipments.
See how customers are succeeding with chemicals solutions from SAP
Find out how ingredients manufacturer Döhler optimized processes to work more efficiently and enhance customer relationships.
Discover how coking product firm Shaanxi Heimao modernized its operations to increase efficiency and support rapid growth.
Discover how Evonik automated processes and helped employees work more efficiently while collaborating more closely with partners.
Learn how Westlake Vinnolit helped employees work more efficiently with advanced reports, dashboards, and analytics.
SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management provides us with the safety reporting capabilities necessary for success in oil and gas. The application has helped us gain insight into approximately 14,672 incidents, including historic data, and take advantage of valuable lessons learned.
Shang Weizhong, Corporate HSSE Director, PetroKazakhstan
40% decrease in the duration of unplanned downtime and outages.
Source: SAP Performance Benchmarking
Our goal is not just to make our production facilities safe for workers. The two are closely related – the workforce safety and it cannot be separate goals. With SAP Service and Asset Manager we´ve taken a step toward realizing both. We will continue with SAP S/4HANA.
Christoph Pressen, Head of Mechanical Engineering, Treibacher Industrie AG
25% increase in customer satisfaction levels.
Source: SAP Performance Benchmarking
We made a selection and we came out with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Cloud for Customer (functionality now found in the SAP Sales Cloud and SAP Service Cloud solutions) as the best solutions for our company. We want to use forecasting and all the possibilities that SAP S/4HANA Cloud offers us to be more reactive to the market. SAP S/4HANA Cloud will allow us to react much quicker to changes than before.
Dirk Storms, Business Information Manager, INNOTEC
Achieving real-time data visibility through interdependent SAP Digital Supply Chain solutions helps transform supply chain planning and execution. You can establish automated and standardized planning processes, collaborate through business networks, and react faster to ever-changing downstream demand and supply disruptions to remain resilient.
>10% increase in new product revenue from accelerated innovation with an extended ecosystem.
Source: SAP Performance Benchmarking
Before, so much time was spent on converting purchasing forecasts into business effects that they became outdated by the time they arrived at sales. Now, we can immediately report on changes and thus have a closer connection between sales and procurement.
Robert Vultier, Project Business Owner, Procurement, Clariant International Ltd
Explore your chemicals resource center
Explore how our innovations can help transform the chemicals sector.
Look at the trends set to shape the chemical business over the next five years and key innovation priorities for the industry.
Hear key takeaways from SAP Conference for Chemicals in 2022, including a discussion of top focus areas for the sector.
Learn how chemicals company Indorama Ventures improved critical work processes with risk-based inspection solutions.