Revolutionize the Chemical Industry with SAP Solutions
Implement innovative SAP solutions that meet all regulatory requirements and ensure the sustainable development of your enterprise.
According to the Chemicals Global Market Report 2023, the industry faces several significant challenges that require innovative solutions in the modern chemicals market. Here are some of the key challenges:
- Rising material costs impact expenses, necessitating cost-effective sourcing and supply chain optimization.
- Intense competition requires substantial marketing investments, affecting profit margins.
- Sustainability demands put pressure on eco-friendly processes, requiring tech investments.
- Varied demand necessitates adapting to industry-specific shifts in product demand.
- Complex supply chains require the management of global logistics amid geopolitical disruptions.
- Tech advancements require staying current with AI and data analytics for competitiveness.
- Regulatory compliance requires ongoing monitoring to meet environmental and safety regulations.
- Market diversification involves expanding into new regions and products to mitigate risk.
LeverX possesses a wealth of expertise in software solutions, making us well-equipped to effectively address these industry challenges. With our experience and innovative approach, we can provide tailored solutions to help companies in the chemicals industry overcome these pain points and thrive in today's competitive market.
Recently, LeverX successfully assisted a large chemical manufacturer by implementing a comprehensive SAP EHS (Environment, Health, and Safety Management) sustainability solution. This solution enabled the client to enhance safety management, streamline environmental compliance, and improve reporting and analysis. By leveraging SAP EHS solutions and custom-developed applications, the client achieved better control over employee and ecological safety, reduced hazardous risks, ensured compliance with regulations, and improved documentation and reporting capabilities.
95% of Chemical Companies in the Forbes Global 2000 Use SAP Solutions
Accelerate the return on investment in SAP solutions
Increase revenue from new products through accelerated innovation
Reduce total costs through better compliance with the production plan
Reduce total logistics costs through intelligent integration
Reduce research and development expenses
Shorten the production cycle
Tackling Challenges Across Chemicals Subindustries with SAP
The chemicals industry comprises multiple subindustries, each facing distinct challenges that SAP helps to solve.
- Industrial chemicals manufacturers
Control batch processing, track compliance, and manage global supply chains. - Specialty chemicals
Support R&D, maintain strict quality control, and navigate regulatory complexity. - Agrochemicals
Plan for seasonal demand, track traceability, and comply with environmental rules. - Waste management & chemical recycling
Track hazardous materials, schedule safe disposal, and ensure environmental compliance.
- Petrochemicals & derivatives
Optimize feedstock usage, maintain assets, and control energy costs. - Basic inorganic chemicals
Handle reactive chemicals safely, manage inventories, and coordinate logistics. - Chemical distribution & trading
Enhance order management, streamline documentation, and maintain pricing control.
Why Chemical Companies Choose SAP Solutions
Over the past 30-40 years, the chemical industry has undergone significant changes and continues to evolve under the influence of internal and external factors. SAP solutions are intelligent business tools that cover the entire value chain of chemical products and contribute to the sustainable development of chemical enterprises.
Nowadays, chemical companies choose SAP to implement:
Industry Challenges You Can Address With SAP Solutions
Health, safety, and environment
- Lack of information support
- High labor costs for generating regulatory reporting
MRO
- High share of emergency repairs
- Lack of a unified planning system
- Financial losses due to equipment downtime and breakdowns
Production
- Lack of a unified resource planning system (materials, personnel, equipment)
Procurement and inventory management
- Lack of transparency in procurement management
- Errors in material requirement planning
- Procurement strategies based on irrelevant data
Controlling and profitability analysis
- High labor intensity of the cost planning process and the calculation of the planned cost
- Lack of operational control over the financial condition of the enterprise
- High labor intensity in forming management reporting
Sales and delivery
- Complex transportation planning scheme
- Unreliable communication with intermediate transportation links (e.g., railway stations)
- Lack of control
- High transportation costs
Finance
- Lack of a unified database
- A large amount of manual labor
- High risk of errors
- Multiple duplications of information
- Untimely information input
SAP Solutions for the Chemical Industry
Health, safety, and environmental protection
SAP creates products for organizations that want to achieve a more ergonomic work environment by:
- Diminishing operational risks and keeping employees, assets, and the public safe.
- Supporting compliance with environmental, health, and safety standards on local and global levels.
- Promoting sustainability by controlling emissions, waste, and resource consumption.
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Minimize the number of incidents with comprehensive operational risk management.
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Calculate product and corporate footprints to follow sustainability goals.
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Manage product compliance throughout the entire cycle in local and global markets.
Maintenance and asset management
SAP helps upgrade asset performance and maintenance operations, which has a positive effect on ROI by:
- Introducing the approach of predictive and proactive maintenance.
- Collecting and modifying asset data across the entire product lifecycle.
- Optimizing resource allocation and field service execution.
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Manage and maintain all your physical assets throughout their lifecycle.
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Improve asset management with the help of predictive analytics, machine learning, and real-time data insights.
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Connect with asset owners, operators, service providers, and suppliers to oversee your physical assets.
Production
SAP provides solutions for running modern production operations by:
- Providing real-time data for operations.
- Introducing intelligent scheduling for production planning to consider material, capacity, and resource constraints.
- Automating manufacturing processes.
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Combine production execution, visibility, and analysis for better manufacturing performance.
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Integrate inbound checkpoints, warehousing, production, and external storage for comprehensive planning.
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SAP S/4HANA for Production Engineering and Operations (PEO)
Create and streamline complex production processes within a modern shop floor user interface.
Procurement and inventory management
SAP empowers chemical manufacturers to establish efficient supply chains by:
- Digitizing sourcing and procurement processes.
- Controlling material availability while optimizing inventory storage.
- Providing end-to-end support for logistics processes.
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Streamline sourcing, supplier management, and procurement within a cloud network.
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Support your procurement and inventory planning, and utilize intelligent analytics scenarios to anticipate future stock needs.
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Get complete visibility of warehouse operations, customer data, and orders.
Financial management and accounting
SAP can help you transform financial processes by:
- Promptly updating and unifying all transactional data.
- Accelerating the financial close.
- Providing real-time analytic insights into financial performance.
- Accommodating data on financial planning, budgeting, accounting, and forecasting with operational data.
- Supporting visibility into cash positions and bank accounts.
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Optimize financial management, accelerate transactions, and get instant reporting for cost and profit analysis and strategic financial decisions.
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SAP S/4HANA Margin Analysis
Evaluate the profitability based on products, customers, orders, and their combinations.
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Strengthen financial planning, cover all valuable data sources, and simulate financial scenarios for better control of financial flows.
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Manage cash flows and corporate liquidity in real-time.
Sales and delivery
SAP products can improve customer satisfaction and help boost sales by:
- Automating each step of the sales process.
- Providing updates about the delivery process.
- Monitoring logistics and order fulfillment.
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SAP S/4HANA Sales
Manage the entire sales process, from creating orders to delivery, in real time within a single system.
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Get comprehensive sales data, optimize customer relationships, and advance sales activities.
AI & ML Use in the Chemical Industry
Chemical production requires strict control, compliance, and timing. SAP systems keep processes stable; AI adds smarter monitoring, faster insights, and better planning decisions.
Where AI makes an impact:
- Monitoring chemical reactions and detecting deviations in real time using AI models.
- Predicting maintenance needs of reactors and pipelines (SAP Predictive Maintenance).
- Optimizing production recipes based on historical performance data.
- Ensuring compliance by analyzing documentation and process records with NLP.
SAP already offers many AI-powered features in their software. We help you turn them on and tailor them for your business. Where more customization is needed, we build AI solutions specifically for your workflows, including generative options.
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