Chemicals
Drive higher value outcomes and new customer experiences through innovative products, services, and business models with SAP solutions for chemicals.
Chemical companies are rethinking how humans and machines interact
SAP is ready to help chemical companies deliver innovative products at scale and as outcome-oriented services with prepackaged offerings such as the Best Practices package for Chemicals and SAP Model Company services.
Solve your specific chemicals business needs
Become a trailblazer for digital transformation
Capitalise on predictive models, machine learning, and blockchain to optimise asset and manufacturing performance and shape new strategies and business models.
Embrace industry disruption with bold vision
Address resource scarcity, environmental impacts, and changing consumer expectations with innovative products and outcome-oriented services delivered at scale.
Unlock new business value with digital technology
Launch new outcome-oriented, service-based business models by connecting innovative technologies with integrated business solutions to create an intelligent enterprise.
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SAP Road Map for Chemicals
Explore our chemicals industry road map to learn about current industry solutions, planned innovations, and future direction.
Current release highlights
- Embedded sample management, including documents related to safety and product and service quality
- Advanced scenario simulation geared toward assumptions, risks, opportunities, or business events
- Physical assets digitally represented with SAP Intelligent Asset Management solutions
- Legal compliance and marketability checks in the processing of sales orders and deliveries
Upcoming innovations
- Target-driven recipe development with real-time analysis of costs, ingredients, and compliance
- Collaborative enterprise planning that aligns finance and operational plans at strategic and tactical levels
- Simplified process for creation, validation, approval, and publishing of safety instructions
- Dangerous goods management with SAP S/4HANA
Future plans
- Execute global customer-voice programs with experience management solutions from SAP
- Implement advanced heuristics and provide insights to optimise capacity and resolve inventory problems
- Support electrical work instruction and collection of process parameters
- Embed transportation planning and execution capabilities in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Find chemicals software tailored to your needs
SAP S/4HANA
Help your chemicals company transform and compete in the new digital reality. SAP S/4HANA can provide a proven framework to adopt best practices for the chemicals industry, while attaining operational excellence across core customer engagement, asset management, and financial processes.
Jump-start your transition to an intelligent enterprise
Accelerate implementation time, reduce risks, and get ready for your digital journey with the SAP Model Company service for chemicals.
What are leading analysts saying about SAP?
Run a business model with efficiency and transparency
IDC reveals that chemicals companies are adopting SAP S/4HANA as the foundation for their transformation into intelligent enterprises. And with cloud solutions from SAP, they will continue to innovate and evolve their IT architecture.
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Join the new SAP for Chemicals Expert Community
Explore the SAP for Chemicals community to learn from stakeholders and experts, and interact through blogs, discussions, and other resources. Find out how our community can help you run your chemicals processes better through topics that include digitalization, hot topics, and customer news.