Chemicals

Customer Focused Business Outcomes

Modern firms must adapt business operations to pivot away from long R&D cycles and quantity-based sales models to deliver more unique and customized products and services to customers. This involves integrating with customer production systems as well as optimizing internal systems to decrease time to market. IT systems must be nimble enough to respond to these new ways of doing business.

Shrink Cycle Times

Many firms still struggle with siloed data and a lack of integration due to distributed operations management systems. This makes it difficult to shorten cycle times for products. Companies must begin to migrate quickly and safely to integrated platforms such as S/4HANA to take advantage of powerful analytics tools and other intelligent technologies.

Building an Ecosystem

Traditional linear business models are being upended by increased competition, expanding globalization and growing customer demand for more personalized and sustainable products. Firms must collaborate with external partners to deliver new product offerings while increasing value from existing products through the circular economy. IT systems must be flexible enough to support these new business models.

Increasing Organizational Agility

Organic growth is often no longer enough to guarantee success in today’s environment. Firms are increasingly looking to acquire or merge with other organizations to increase overall strategic value. This presents unique challenges to IT teams, who must work quickly to integrate multiple systems to begin delivering value fast. Changes to critical systems must be delivered rapidly with low risk.