Chemicals

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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.

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    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.

     

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    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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    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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    See how customers are succeeding with SAP solutions for chemicals

    See what analysts are saying about SAP

    SAP named a Leader for S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

    Gartner® named SAP a Leader in its 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises.

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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.

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    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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    See what's ahead with SAP road maps

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

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    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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