Optimize asset performance, order fulfillment, and return on innovation

Manufacturing Visibility and Performance

Gain real-time visibility into key performance indicators for assets and
manufacturing operations.

• Quickly integrate proprietary plant systems and business data into a unified dashboard
• Enable access to real-time and historical data to provide a platform for improvement
• Optimize maintenance and plant operations through best practices and real-time measurement

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Operational Risk Management

Take a holistic approach to operational risk management by providing visibility into operations and supporting environment, health, and safety compliance.

• Provide stakeholders with visibility into operational risks across processes and departments
• Keep people and the environment safe with effective investigation and reporting processes
• Ensure asset safety by conducting reliability-centered maintenance and management of work permits

Success Story: Champion Technologies Improves Sustainability › SAP InSight: A Clear Path to Proactively Managing Risk ›

Asset Operations and Maintenance

Integrate maintenance with plant planning and scheduling, service procurement, and spare parts management – for a proactive approach to maintenance and faster problem resolution.

• Proactively monitor equipment and use preventive and predictive maintenance techniques
• Get timely equipment information by integrating plant systems – and react quickly to problems
• Automate the entire service and spare parts procurement process

Success Story: Nova Chemicals Improves Plant Maintenance › Solution Brief: EAM Mobile Work Order ›

Asset Portfolio and Project Management

Synchronize capital projects with asset portfolio, performance, and information management – for enhanced control and return on capital employed.

• Improve asset portfolio management by integrating processes and assessing risks and priorities
• Streamline capital project management by consistently posting and monitoring financial information
• Manage asset information by enabling collaboration and electronic handover of information

Tesoro: Enhancing Budgeting and Forecasting Processes ›

Energy and Environmental Resource Management

Track, trace, and report on energy consumption and emissions at the equipment level – and drive global Six Sigma initiatives.

• Reduce carbon emissions liability through making energy consumption and emissions visible
• Ensure compliance with laws and policies, providing tools to reduce and report emissions
• Integrate energy costs and emissions penalties into planning and budgeting

Woongjin Group: Realize Integrated Environmental Management & Global Compliance › Customer Testimonial Video: Air Products ›

Demand and Supply Planning

Balance demand and supply and respond to network events more easily with integrated, end-to-end planning processes.

• consolidate internal and external demand – for collaborative demand management
• Drive replenishment and distribution planning back to manufacturers and suppliers
• Balance sales and operations planning by consolidating all relevant input across the network

Braskem: Increased Sales Forecast Accuracy and Reduced Logistics Costs › Overview Video: Sales and Operations Planning, powered by SAP HANA ›

Logistics and Fulfillment Management

Ensure that your logistics and fulfillment processes are effective and compliant – across your entire supply network.

• Meet customer commitments by managing orders based on available / projected inventory and compliance
• Improve inbound and outbound transportation management and maximize asset utilization
• Streamline warehouse processes and material flow from the yard right to the shelf

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Manufacturing Network Planning and Execution

Respond to rapid changes in demand across a network of plants, outsourced manufacturers, and suppliers.

• Identify production requirements and source materials across an internal and external network
• Schedule, dispatch, and manage plant floor execution in one integrated process
• Synchronize with outsourced manufacturing to increase responsiveness

Inventory Optimization

Dynamically optimize your inventories across a multi-echelon network.

• Set demand-driven, time-phased inventory targets for every item and location in the supply chain
• Integrate with SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, SAP ERP, and SAP SCM
• Optimize your supply chain – inventories, service levels, capacity, and costs

Success Story: Rohm and Haas Optimizes Inventory and Cuts Costs ›

Supply Chain Performance and Risk Management

Proactively manage your supply chain performance and associated risks using real-time monitoring, analysis, and role-based reporting.

• Optimize business content and metrics by applying leading frameworks like SCOR
• Quickly extract and transform data using preintegrated transactional systems and precalculated metrics
• Produce more useful reports with semantically consistent navigation

Product and Service Innovation

Take advantage of best practices for continuous innovation – and create products and services that give you an advantage over the competition.

• Increase visibility and responsiveness to customer needs with better alignment and communication
• Boost product innovation with best practices for product development and IP management
• Implement best practices for systematic program and project performance monitoring and reporting

Product Development

Integrate product development, customer requirements, and ramp-up to production. Streamline processes, unify product data, and reduce time to market.

• Manage portfolio and customer requirements by improving tracking, collaboration, and visibility
• Enhance product, recipe, and specification development with automated data and project management
• Streamline ramp-up to production processes from development to manufacturing

Success Story: Ashland Creates a Global View of Product Recipes › Success Story: Henkel Saves Costs, Time, and Effort Thanks to Electronic Document Transfer ›

REACH Compliance and Product Stewardship

Ensure safety and environmental performance to increase marketability and minimize compliance risks.

• Create compliant products by integrating environment, health, and safety processes into development
• Manufacture compliant products by embedding compliance controls throughout the supply chain
• Maintain product compliance by implementing compliance checks into the product lifecycle

Solution Brief: Streamlined, Integrated REACH Compliance Management › Customer Video: Givaudan Focuses on Product Safety and Compliance ›

Sales and Marketing Planning

Strategically align sales resources, optimize campaigns, and streamline sales planning and forecasting to exceed goals and objectives.

• Integrate profit analysis, customer segmentation, and sales planning and forecasting with budgeting
• Synchronize sales and marketing processes to ensure effective lead to opportunity conversion
• Streamline business planning and simulation processes that harmonize strategy and execution

Pipeline Management

Boost pipeline performance by streamlining selling processes across all sales channels. Generate qualified leads and accelerate buying decisions.

• Generate highly qualified, prioritized leads and automate the lead distribution process
• Track, qualify, and distribute leads to the right sales professionals – then monitor conversion
• Identify stalled deals, monitor quotas, and test strategies to accelerate your sales cycle

Order Processing

Ensure a superior order experience through accurate pricing, delivery commitments, order execution, and service excellence.

• Track orders, product availability, pricing consistency, and delivery throughout the lifecycle
• Run automated real-time sales order credit checks at the point of sale
• Issue error-free invoices to realize revenue more quickly and deliver superior customer service

Webcast: Eastman Chemical Improves Customer Interactions ›

Price and Margin Management

Align stakeholders to make price and margin management a complete business process – from price analysis to deal execution.

• Base prices on what a customer is willing to pay rather than what it costs to make a product
• Automate processes and boost pricing consistency – to react quickly to changing market conditions
• Execute sales deals, set appropriate pricing, and evaluate overall deals to speed order to cash

Sales Performance Management and Analytics

Provide global line of business sales managers with actionable metrics for
sales performance.

• Increase transparency and accountability – while capitalizing on revenue opportunities
• Significantly reduce operating costs and optimize sales effectiveness
• Anticipate and estimate demand based on sales data and customer insights

Finance

Drive financial excellence within the chemicals industry environment.

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Human Resources

Successfully manage and grow the best talent – and improve human resources
process efficiencies.

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Information Technology

Drive efficiency and performance within your IT infrastructure.

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Procurement

Make better, faster procurement decisions with improved procurement
visibility and processes.

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Sustainability Performance Management

Empower executive leadership to create and execute sustainability strategies – minimizing risk and maximizing opportunity.

• Align sustainability performance with finance, manufacturing, HR, and other operations
• Get accurate, timely reporting based on accepted standards
• Leverage prepackaged sustainability and compliance content
• Rely on the only solution that links key business information to sustainability reporting

Solutions for Small and Midsize Enterprises (SMEs)

Improve operating efficiencies – and achieve a fast ROI – with integrated software designed for small and midsize chemical companies.

• Improve cycle time and capacity utilization – and reduce capital requirements
• Achieve faster time to market with collaborative design processes throughout the product lifecycle
• Increase visibility into customer data to meet dynamic demand and product requirements

Solution Brief: SAP Software Tailored for Chemical Companies ›

Closed Loop Quality Management

Ensure customer satisfaction by consistently meeting regulatory and quality standards.

• Reduce compliance costs
• Begin quality planning during the product design phase
• Increase access to quality management information across the company
• Create a solid foundation for quality inspection processes

Transportation Management

Improve transportation spend management and enable enhanced order fulfillment by integrating all aspects of the transportation management process.

• Automate transportation tendering, execution, tracking, and settlement processes
• Create reliable and flexible transportation plans that adapt changing conditions
• Leverage leading ERP financials for freight settlement and customer billing
• Ensure compliance with international trade

Arkema: Optimizing Worldwide Transportation Processes ›

Supply Chain Execution

Ensure 'Perfect Order' - the right product at the right place and the right time and for the right cost, increasing customer service levels, maximizing assets, and minimizing costs.

• Improve communication with your suppliers, contract manufacturers, and customers to streamline collaboration and reduce errors
• Improve warehouse efficiency, optimize operations, and sharpen your competitive edge with end-to-end extended warehouse management tools
• Minimize global trade violations with a single, integrated platform that can help you meet ever-changing compliance requirements and improve productivity
• Integrate and network with trading partners, clients, and suppliers, and exchange data electronically with business partners

Embedded Product Compliance

Ensure safety and environmental performance to increase marketability and minimize compliance risks.

• Create compliant products by integrating environment, health, and safety processes into development
• Manufacture compliant products by embedding compliance controls throughout the supply chain
• Maintain product compliance by implementing compliance checks into the product lifecycle

Solution Brief: Streamlined, Integrated REACH Compliance Management › Success Story: Weylchem enables compliance with regulatory requirements ›

Lead to Cash Acceleration

Better serve your customers needs with holistic, cross-applications to support, automate and accelerate business processes.

• Align sales resources, optimize campaigns, and streamline sales planning and forecasting
• Boost pipeline performance by streamlining selling processes across all sales channels
• Ensure a superior order experience through accurate pricing, delivery commitments, order execution, and service excellence
• Provide global line of business sales managers with actionable metrics for sales performance

Lyondell Basell: Leveraging SAP CRM On-Demand for Sales › Sudarshan Chemical Industries: Reducing inventory and improving productivity ›

Rapid Deployment Solutions for SAP CRM

Reach your CRM goals ahead of schedule. These quick-to-deploy solutions are built to support your essential CRM activities - from attracting prospects to closing deals.

• Leverage a mix of software and services that enable lightning-quick deployment
• Benefit from a low cost of implementation and quick time to value
• Choose between on-premise, cloud, or appliance delivery methods

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Differentiate Through Service Excellence

Enable your service organization to implement an integrated service process, enhancing productivity and increasing customer loyalty.

• Resolve issues quickly with on-the-spot customer support
• Equip employees with the information and tools they need to retain profitable customers
• Provide a consistent, positive user experience across all service channels

Strategic Sourcing and Procurement

Identify potential savings, implement strategic sourcing, deliver negotiated savings and better manage contract life cycles.

• Provide easy configuration of projects, templates, and reports
• Support RFX / auctions with robust scoring, optimization, and evaluation tools
• Ensure full integration with contract management and operational procurement

Procure to Pay

Ensure contract compliance, reduce cycle times and errors, provide self-service procurement capabilities, and allow central contracts, bidding, and catalog based purchasing.

• Provide self-service requisitioning – from catalogs or on an ad hoc basis
• Allow plan-driven procurement from MRP – and collaborate with suppliers on transactions
• Deliver a shared-service platform across a diverse system landscape

Haldia: Reduced Time for Internal Procurement by 40%* ›

Financial Performance Management

Streamline your planning, budgeting, and forecasting – for greater efficiency and agility. And enable a fast, accurate close.

• Align financial and operational plans with strategic objectives – and get detailed cost reporting
• Model scenarios based on products, customers, channels, and resources
• Report sustainability performance based on state-of-the-art standards

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Risk and Compliance Management

Increase visibility and insight into enterprise risks that impact business performance.

• Embed corporate risk management into your business strategy
• Prevent unauthorized access to key systems and applications with automated control and monitoring
• Identify, manage, and prioritize risk exposure across global supply chains

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Financial Shared Services Management

Deploy financial shared services best practices globally without high overhead.

• Provide portal functionality for business unit managers
• Support business functions through one shared-service center and allow service-level monitoring
• Integrate shared services with both SAP and non-SAP applications

Financial Close

Achieve high-quality financial reporting, IFRS compliance readiness, data accuracy, and reduced reporting costs.

• Prepare for IFRS compliance and execute and monitor local close activities
• Enable automated and event-based scheduling and provide a single view of all local close processes
• Consolidate financial reporting and enable intercompany reconciliations and parallel accounting

Success Story: Dow Chemical Company ›

Treasury and Financial Risk Management

Accurately forecast cash and effectively manage treasury and financial risk.

• Support hedge management and proper accounting treatment of risk
• Integrate with SAP General Ledger and support the complete array of financial instruments
• Provide preconfigured reporting processes

FMC: Minimizing Risk and Increasing Transparency ›

Invoice to Pay and Order to Cash

Automate receivables, collections, invoices, and payments to improve invoice to pay and order to cash.

• Manage credits, disputes, and collections
• Automate e-invoicing and receivables and enable optical scanning and retrieval of invoices
• Integrate with SAP solutions for accounts payable, purchasing, cash analysis, and reporting

Betek Paint: Leveraging SAP Solutions to Implement E-Invoicing Processes ›

Commodity Risk Management

Control and manage risk resulting from commodity price volatility. Identify and quantify your exposure to foreign exchange, counterparty risk, and more.

• Support commodity exposure and manage multiple commodities
• Connect to external marketplaces and provide transaction management for financial assets
• Link physical exposure to commodity derivatives - including effectiveness testing and settlement

Sustainability Reporting and Analytics

Empower executive leadership to create and execute sustainability strategies – minimizing risk and maximizing opportunity.

• Align sustainability performance with finance, manufacturing, HR, and other operations
• Get accurate, timely reporting based on accepted standards
• Leverage prepackaged sustainability and compliance content
• Rely on the only solution that links key business information to sustainability reporting

Global Human Resources and Payroll

Rely on an integrated human resources foundation that supports cross-functional processes – and provides insight into your global workforce.

• Take advantage of flexible business processes – localized for 48 countries
• Offer user-friendly self-service
• Support all payroll types – with a platform that offers real-time integration with financials

Business Transformation Study: Videloar ›

Talent Management

Effectively identify, develop, reward, and retain talent.

• Recruit, assess, and review talent to reach organizational goals and cultivate key contributors
• Support employee development and learning, monitor employee progress, and deliver custom training
• Plan for succession and compensation by identifying and developing high-potential employees

Business Transformation Study: Polinter ›

Sustainability Reporting and Analytics

Empower executive leadership to create and execute sustainability strategies - minimizing risk and maximizing opportunity.

• Align sustainability performance with finance, manufacturing, HR, and other operations
• Get accurate, timely reporting based on accepted standards
• Leverage prepackaged sustainability and compliance content
• Rely on the only solution that links key business information to sustainability reporting

Embedded Product Compliance

Ensure safety and environmental performance to increase marketability and minimize compliance risks.

• Create compliant products by integrating environment, health, and safety processes into development
• Manufacture compliant products by embedding compliance controls throughout the supply chain
• Maintain product compliance by implementing compliance checks into the product lifecycle

Solution Brief: Streamlined, Integrated REACH Compliance Management › Success Story: Weylchem enables compliance with regulatory requirements ›

Solution Manager

Provide technical support for distributed systems - from solution deployment and operations to continuous monitoring and improvement.

Bayer Material Science: SAP Solution Manager brings new level of information transparency › DuPont: Reducing operational costs by $11 million a year › Learn more about Solution Manager ›

Solution Extensions

Lower your implementation and upgrade risks by using SAP partner solution extensions. Ramp up quickly on new features and functions, improve service levels, reduce exceptions, and increase the effectiveness of your IT resources.

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Mobile Device Management

Centrally manage and secure mobile data, applications, and devices on a single administrative console with our mobile device management and security solution.

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Test Server and Optimization

Create testing environments for your IT landscape and quickly generate components for automated business process tests.

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Landscape Transformation

Adapt existing SAP system landscapes to quickly and efficiently support changing business requirements.

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IT Service Management

Align your service desk operations with service-level agreements (SLAs) to minimize costs, quickly resolve SLA incidents, and eliminate negative user impact. Support IT service processes with powerful ERP functionality, and adopt ITIL best practices across your IT organization to meet evolving business goals.

Customer Success Story: Total Petrochemicals ›

IT Portfolio and Project Management

Link ideas and strategies to relevant data, workflows, and business processes to smoothly manage portfolios and projects from start to finish. Drive innovation throughout the portfolio lifecycle and develop cross-functional processes across disparate systems - with our IT and portfolio management solution.

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IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

Confidently manage and reduce access risk by automating risk management, compliance, and monitoring activities for your enterprise IT.

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Carbon Impact

Execute a proactive strategy for enterprise IT energy management that enables you to quantify and compare energy intensity across your IT operations.

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Green IT

Reduce your carbon footprint by architecting and running your enterprise IT in the most energy-efficient way possible.

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IT Strategy Management

Set your goals and map your IT strategies - then, manage IT performance from high-level objectives down to operational metrics.

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IT Profitability and Cost Management

Improve your IT profitability and cost management by zeroing in on IT cost and performance issues.

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Virtualization

Spread application instances across available servers to get the most from your IT infrastructure.

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Security

Meet the highest security standards, fulfill compliance requirements, and define and implement an enterprise-wide information security policy.

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Identity Management

Centrally manage user identities across multiple, heterogeneous applications with self-service user capabilities and a rules-driven workflow and approval process.

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Rapid Deployment Solutions for IT

Support rapid IT innovation. Connect processes and data across your network to boost collaboration, efficiency, and control - with these quick-to-deploy solutions that leverage a mix of software and service.

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