Chemicals
Build resilience and sustainable growth through performance and innovation
Improve efficiency and profitability while maintaining safety and compliance with AI-assisted decision-making powered by integrated data and processes.
Our solutions for the chemical industry help you:
Protect margins by adapting faster to demand, cost and regulatory changes.
Improve profitability by boosting asset productivity and cash flow.
Maintain reliable operations and profitability by improving elasticity.
Differentiate through customer engagement and co-innovation.
Protect your licence to operate through compliance, trust and sustainability.
Ensure supply chain and manufacturing elasticity
Form resilient, data-driven supply chain and manufacturing processes that adapt to feedstock shifts, demand volatility and production disruptions to ensure on-spec, on-time deliveries.
Increase operational and financial efficiency
Cut costs and enhance plant performance by streamlining production workflows, optimising asset and energy use, minimising waste and maximising throughput efficiency.
Improve strategic agility
Optimise product portfolios by staying agile amid raw material price volatility, shifting market demand, regulatory change and transformation from mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
Support sustainable value chains and compliance
Ensure compliant, transparent chemical value chains that reduce environmental impact, meet global regulations, manage risk and build long‑term trust with customers and regulators.
AI for chemicals
Empower your chemical company to unite AI, data and business operations to accelerate performance, make smarter decisions and drive transformation.
The Autonomous Enterprise for Chemicals
See how a modern chemical enterprise leverages unified cross-functional insights and Joule, SAP’s AI-powered platform, to navigate sudden market changes.
SAP AI powers autonomous operations across your chemical business
Boost resilience and sustainable growth in your chemical business with AI assistants and agents that help you to design products, reduce supply and financial risk and accelerate time to market.
Autonomous Asset Management
Increase asset reliability and uptime while ensuring regulatory compliance, safety and sustainability.
Autonomous Regulated Manufacturing
Enable accurate, scalable and resilient manufacturing with plan-to-produce (PTP) process orchestration.
Explore SAP and partner solutions that help chemical businesses run better
Achieve cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth with solutions tailored to chemical production, compliance and value‑chain optimisation.
Product formulation and recipe development
Quickly develop recipes and formulas to:
Accelerate time to market through collaborative product development.
Improve product performance by running contextual analytics.
Grow revenue by collaborating with suppliers throughout product lifecycles.
Reduce business risk by enhancing product quality and compliance .
Improve sustainability by optimising formulations for lower environmental impact.
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Intelligent product recommendation
Improve specification accuracy and customer fit using agent-driven formulation recommendations based on historical data.
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Product compliance
Reduce regulatory risk and safeguard market access with automated, integrated processes supporting the end‑to‑end product lifecycle.
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Product portfolio optimisation
Adapt to changing prices, markets and regulations by developing new products and services through value-driven investments.
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Price fx
Drive rapid margin growth with an AI-powered pricing platform.
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Loftware integrated operations management
Minimise costs, improve agility and operational efficiency and reduce errors with SAP-certified labelling.
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SAIFTY Cloud
Cut costs, boost agility and ensure compliant, error-free labelling with SAP Store solution, SAIFTY Cloud.
Demand-driven digital business planning and sourcing
Stay ahead of change and build a resilient supply chain to:
Reduce costs by predicting demand more accurately.
Improve service levels using multilevel supply planning.
Improve decision‑making with a single collaborative process.
Boost supply chain agility with coordinated planning processes and automation.
Improve responsiveness and decision accuracy with scenario-based planning simulations.
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Modern procurement
Increase purchasing power and drive sustainable savings by using AI-driven processes and embedded intelligent insights.
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Supply chain collaboration
Gain transparency by collaborating with multiple tiers of trading partners across inventory, quality and procurement processes.
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Sourcing and contract management
Optimise costs, manage risks and realise negotiated savings with spend management solutions.
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Carbon Minds
Enhance campaign planning by improving alignment, visibility and execution across the supply chain.
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EcoVadis
Map and assess your ESG value chain risk and review risk and performance of your trading partners with sustainability scorecards.
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Camelot planner and designer
Increase supply chain efficiency with touchless production planning to improve throughput and reduce manual bottlenecks.
Digital manufacturing
Support agile operations and a sustainable workforce on a single platform to:
Maximise plant throughput by aligning labour to production priorities.
Drive continuous improvement by managing yield, quality and asset performance.
Respond faster to demand and supply changes with agile production plans.
Maximise customer satisfaction with compliant, right-first-time output.
Ensure operational continuity by reinforcing process safety and compliance.
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Environmental management
Ensure environmental compliance and identify opportunities to reduce emissions and waste through an auditable process.
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Asset management
Reduce downtime, safety risk and costs by optimising maintenance planning and execution.
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Production planning and scheduling
Achieve faster, more reliable execution by keeping production aligned with real‑time business priorities.
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Wipro Shutdown, Turnaround and Outage (sto360)
Accelerate STO activities, cut costs and improve collaboration with industry-standard processes and tools.
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PiLogue Data Quality and Governance Suite for Supply Chain and Asset Lifecycle Management
Reduce costs, boost asset performance and help ensure trusted data with AI-powered data quality and governance.
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Asset Lifecycle Management Suite for SAP Asset Performance Management
Maximise asset reliability and reduce downtime with AI-assisted maintenance and risk-based inspection in SAP EAM and SAP APM.
Order promising
Boost resilience and avoid business disruptions to:
Improve customer experience with clear availability insights and product alternatives.
Optimise chemical supply flows with real‑time inventory and material data.
Boost planning accuracy and delivery reliability with material availability data.
Increase fill rates and delivery accuracy with AI-assisted order fulfilment.
Fulfil priority orders with AI-suggested substitutions and supply protection.
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Logistics collaboration
Improve fulfilment reliability at lower cost while ensuring compliant delivery through better coordination with logistics partners.
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Extended warehouse management
Increase warehouse throughput and fulfilment accuracy with end-to-end visibility and automated warehouse processes.
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Transportation management
Ensure reliable, cost‑efficient and compliant product movement across supply chains by unifying fleet and logistics management.
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Descartes MacroPoint
React swiftly to supply chain disruptions by predicting and communicating real-time delivery status to safeguard delivery reliability.
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Project44
Improve on-time, compliant delivery while reducing disruption risk by enabling predictive ETAs and alerts.
Financial operations management
Empower finance teams with real-time financial data to:
Accelerate reporting and boost productivity using AI-driven processes.
Shorten reporting cycles and improve accuracy with AI-based finance automation.
Reduce days sales outstanding (DSO) and costs with improved collections efficiency.
Grow confidently with risk mitigation and streamlined processes for greater stability.
Gain clear cash visibility, manage payments and reduce financial risk exposure.
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Compliance and tax management
Strengthen compliance, mitigate risk and enhance control with integrated regulatory and tax management processes.
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Sustainability reporting and management
Reduce ESG reporting efforts and improve accuracy with AI-supported data collection and validation.
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AI-based invoice and payment matching
Reduce DSO, speed cash flow and improve customer service with faster incoming payment processing.
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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 drive accounting compliance with intercompany reconciliation, netting and settlement.
Core HR and payroll
Manage the entire workforce with flexible cloud solutions that can:
Drive compliance by maintaining a single source of truth for people data, payroll and skills.
Empower employees with personalised profiles and AI-enabled self-service tools.
Offer end-to-end benefits that support country-specific requirements.
Pay employees accurately and on time in more than 50 countries with embedded localisation.
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Workforce and contingent workforce management
Optimise staffing, control labour costs and stay compliant using integrated scheduling, time tracking and regulatory controls.
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AI-assisted application adoption
Boost digital adoption and improve ROI with application guidance based on user insights, interactions and engagement.
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AI for human resources
Empower people and teams with agents that can automate feedback, optimise goal setting and amplify productivity across HR.
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ATOSS Staff Efficiency Suite
Improve productivity, service quality and agility with intelligent workforce forecasting and scheduling.
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Eightfold Talent Intelligence Platform
Maximise hiring quality with AI tools to find ideal candidates, surface candidates based on their skills and improve decision making in the hiring process.
See how customers are succeeding with SAP solutions for chemicals
Resources
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.
How AI transforms the chemical industry
Learn about AI’s potential for improving efficiency and competitiveness in the chemical sector.
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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