SAP Automation for Chemical Enterprises

Creating new opportunities for growth

The chemicals industry is facing a new wave of challenges and opportunities. The traditional business model of time-consuming research funded by selling products in bulk is giving way to data-driven, customized orders sold based on business outcomes such as first-pass-quality semi-finished parts or goods. Companies must respond to changing customer expectations while managing their environmental impact, greater governmental regulation, and supply chain pressures. At the same time, evolving market conditions mean businesses need to continue developing innovative products and services to ensure continued growth.

Many of these challenges require a shift in business operations which often rely on complex SAP systems. In order to continue to develop competitive products and support new business initiatives, IT teams must be able to adapt SAP systems quickly or risk slowing the pace of change.

Key Challenges

New market demands are changing the way chemical companies must operate. Business models are changing and increasing regulations are restricting flexibility. Firms need to adapt critical systems quickly to stay ahead of the competition.

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.

Benefits of SAP DevOps & Test Automation

SAP is often a driving force behind many critical operations across chemical organizations. Quickly evolving market conditions demand rapid changes to these complex systems. DevOps automation tools for SAP enable fast and robust delivery of change.

Empower greater customer collaboration

Developing personalized products and services means evolving your operations. SAP automation enables new levels of flexibility within critical business systems such as inventory and logistics. It provides the agility needed for seamless collaboration with customers and rapid adaptation of critical business processes.