E2E Batch Tracking Capability and Cost Transparency to Stay Compliant

PMLA (product marketing and lifting agreement) is a contract between Dow and Sadara Chemical Company, a joint venture between Dow and ARAMCO, that defines terms and conditions under which Dow will take in various products from Sadara and sell them in the marketplace. To remain in compliance with the PMLA agreement, Dow has developed a solution called MARS (Marketing Agreement Reporting Systems) by leveraging SAP ECC, BRF plus, BODS, and SAP Process Orchestration technology. The MARS system tracks Sadara products at the batch level from lifting through the internal stock transfer and repackaging until final sales and consumption by both Dow and third-party customers, along with capturing the supply chain cost at a detail level. Finally, it will report all the sales and costs back to Sadara based on the PMLA agreement. This solution is fully automated and integrated with the Sadara System to help Dow stay compliant with the PMLA agreement, which is the foundational system for Dow to run this important business.

Key Business Benefits:

  • Helps Dow stay in compliance with the PMLA agreement to run this business
  • Improves the operational excellence at the speed of the business
  • Reduces the manual effort

Gaining and Safeguarding Your Marketability Through Regulatory Requirements

Already being highly regulated, the chemical product-related regulations continue to increase in number and complexity. Globalization makes that even more of a challenge. At the same time, product stewardship departments must master that with fewer resources because capable people are not available or budgets do not increase at the same pace as regulatory burdens.

Today, many SAP customers create and ship compliance documents such as safety data sheets and labels making use of unique ERP capabilities only SAP has. With SAP S/4HANA®, customers can ensure now the globally compliant and marketability of their products to enter markets in shorter time and safeguard revenues.

This presentation introduces and demos features of SAP S/4HANA, looks into the SAP road map, and shares customer experiences. It also highlights how digital transformation will change the product stewardship process by introducing, for instance, machine learning.

Key Business Benefits:

  • Protect the brand while reducing compliance costs
  • Increase revenue and ensure on-time delivery
  • Increase visibility into compliance

SAP Brings the Intelligent Enterprise to Chemical Manufacturing

SAP continues to make key investments in the Digital Manufacturing portfolio to enable industry 4.0 (the fourth industrial revolution) in the chemicals industry. Gain insights into big data strategies that leverage a mix of edge intelligence, on-premise, and cloud computing to drive new insights into operations. Take a journey through interesting use cases leveraging analytics and machine learning for manufacturing.

Your way to Business Growth and Customer Loyalty with C/4HANA

Chemical companies are often caught in long existing business models with highly complex processes, structures and legal demands. Although everybody sees a big need for innovation and adaptation on all sides, companies struggle to justify the invest in new technology and to get the business department’s buy in. Strategy often is focused to fix a problem here and now, scalability is an issue.

Understanding the single, relevant perspectives will help key stakeholders to understand what’s in for them, how the big picture looks like and that SAP is way more than a software provider. Business values and objectives, along with a strong change and game plan, are beating old KPI and tool discussions.

Learn about SAPs method to drive digitalization in Marketing and Sales by creating and deriving strategic pillars with business impact.

 

Case Study: Implementing a Digital Customer Journey at Covestro

Characterized by an outdated product website, multiple off-line touch points, an established web shop on an old technology, and no full picture of its customer interactions, Covestro faced mounting challenges in providing a seamless customer journey.

To solve this problem, Covestro started a digital customer journey program. This program worked with eight streams to modernize and digitize the customer interface and to improve and create the customer experience within Covestro’s digital touchpoints. Using a “Customer Experience Factory,” Covestro was able to ensure a continuous feedback loop with its customers, which helped to prioritize any future feature developments. It redesigned its complete customer interface, building it up new on the SAP® C/4HANA suite and with a content management system. Additionally, this core is supported by the SAP Cloud Platform, SAP® Jam™, and a new customer identify and access management (CIAM) and content marketing system.

The result is a vast improvement to the digital customer journey, including a website and customer lounge for a seamless customer experience. Within this platform, customers can utilize a product finder, property-based search, and several other digital services. SAP C/4HANA allowed Covestro to introduce a modernized and need-based CRM solution and commerce platform. Lastly, it is establishing a Digital Enablement Platform on the SAP Cloud Platform to ensure a fast, flexible, and efficient deployment of further functionalities and services.

Enhanced Blending Process in the Chemical Industry: Complexity, Solutions, and Best Practices

In chemical process industries, mixing and blending are one of the most frequently used and demanding processes. The process of combining the ingredients results in the creation of a new chemical or new batch of the same chemical with different chemistry. The blending procedure can potentially save manufacturers time, labor, inventory, and transportation costs, which result in better customer service.

In this session, we’ll learn a different variation of blending, its complexity, and SAP best practices around chemical blending within the chemical industry.

Key Business Benefits:

  • Optimize on-hand stock levels and reduce working capitals
  • Process automation and simulation capabilities enhance KPIs (i.e., on-time delivery and manufacturing lead time)
  • Ability to compare the blend proposal with customer specification and provide batch metrics to support and enhance available-to-promise

How Will Emerging Technologies Improve Architecture and Design to Deliver Higher Business Value?

Organizations must transform to appeal to digital world. However, companies still struggle to find the best pathway forward. It is not enough to tweak the business by new ways of working. It requires rethinking and a profound shift in almost every aspect of the business and a field test of the new framework on how to digitally transform.

BP is on the journey to modernize the IT function and enable business to continuously compete, excel, and advance energy transition. This presentation will focus on how emerging technologies will improve architecture and design to deliver a higher business value.

Topics Include:

  • Technology evolution from early ‘60s to present (internet of information to internet of value)
  • Key architecture principles to support modernization and transformation agenda
  • How to digitize a physical object so it can be tracked through different stages of the supply chain
  • How to effectively use emerging technologies such as blockchain and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to modernize exchange of goods within and with counter-party, which is predominately used in oil and gas industries.

Transform Without Disruption to Operations: Managing Multiple Interfaces and Integrating Legacy Systems at Celanese

In late 2017, Celanese Corporation acquired Omni Plastics. The acquisition and integration of Omni Plastics into Celanese’s IT presented challenging opportunities that turned into success stories. Various projects were initiated, including SAP ERP and network/DaaS migration. The strategy of moving quickly and integrating Omni into the overall Celanese operating model enabled Celanese to drive savings and bring its new and existing customers and shareholders expedited value.

A key success measure was that the entire acquisition and integration of the new entity must be performed without any business disruption. This required a focus on three pillars: people, processes, and technology. They began by forming a “Core Interface Team,” which allowed for rapid collective decisions on what should be integrated. A clear and transparent communication plan was put into place among stakeholders. Detailed cutover plans and execution scripts were built to assure flawless execution. Comprehensive audit and analysis confirmed success upon completion.

Key Business Benefits:

  • Complete visibility across supply chain
  • Greater control of inventory levels by integrated planning through integrated systems
  • Greater flexibility on sourcing raw materials
  • Consolidation and deepening of core enterprise roles

SAP S/4HANA and SAP CoPilot Use Cases for the Chemical Industry: Achieving Business Value with the Intelligent Enterprise

As we prepare our SAP landscapes to take advantage of strategic innovations through SAP S/4HANA®, SAP CoPilot offers new capabilities to increase employee productivity and efficiency by enabling a conversational user experience to support end users.

In this session, you will learn about the key components of SAP CoPilot and how it can be deployed to support specific use cases in the chemical industry. In addition, a brief demo will be provided to show the digital assistant and collaboration capabilities.

Three key takeaways from attending this session:

  1. Learn the basics of how SAP CoPilot works with SAP S/4HANA.
  2. Understand the key considerations and technical requirements for deploying SAP CoPilot in your company.
  3. Gain insight into the solution road map and critical decision criteria when comparing SAP CoPilot with other digital assistant and collaboration tools.
 
 

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