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Chemicals

With chemicals industry software from SAP, you can create innovative new products, increase agility, and drive greener growth.

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.

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Explore how we can help your chemicals business run better

Making strategic decisions based on sustainability-related data helps you reduce your environmental footprint. You can establish a unified approach to sustainability risk assessment and manage operational risk and compliance by using standardized, workflow-enabled processes to record incidents and trigger investigations.
  • Environmental impact monitoring
  • Circular value chain management
  • Asset utilization optimization
  • Waste reduction
  • Compliance management
Enabling digital twins and IoT connectivity of assets allows you to continuously monitor asset health, process quality, through-put, workers safety, waste, and emissions. By combining asset information with predictive analytics, you can predict the likelihood of asset failures, plan maintenance, and adjust production plans accordingly.
  • Synchronized processes to optimize asset performance
  • Support for data-driven decision-making
  • Proactive risk and safety management
Getting deep market insights enables proactive development of innovative products that exceed customer expectations. You can increase your margins by offering value-added services to improve customer loyalty and satisfaction.
  • Collection of customer feedback and insights
  • Cost- and requirement-targeted R&D of innovative products
  • Product compliance management

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.

  • Customer-centric and profitable product development
  • Integrated and synchronized planning and execution
  • Connected truck, rail, marine, pipeline, and yard management
  • Advanced what-if analysis with scenario planning tools
  • Collaboration with trading partners across the network

>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