Are the challenges of an uncertain economy preventing you from focusing on sustained profitable growth? Many midsize chemical companies recognize that keeping up with pricing and margin pressure, regulatory compliance, and customer demand can keep them from managing their critical business objectives: differentiating through innovation and building economies of scale.

To sustain growth in an uncertain economy, you need to consolidate IT systems with SAP solutions – integrating processes to:

• Bring innovative products to market quickly
• Optimize prices and margins
• Align your global supply chain at strategic and tactical levels
• Enhance customer service and order fulfillment
• Maximize asset performance and utilization
• Plan and control your corporate performance – and align strategy and execution

SAP solutions give chemical companies like yours visibility, flexibility, and the power to innovate – to reduce operating costs, comply with regulations, and meet the needs of an increasingly demanding customer base. In fact, 2,100 chemical companies run SAP solutions. And did you know that 1,900 of them are small and midsize companies?

SAP can help you:

• Accelerate innovation, facilitate collaboration, reduce development costs, enhance your product portfolio, and reduce time to market for new products and formulations
• Analyze your customer/product portfolio, focus on the most profitable products and customers, and establish appropriate pricing and customer service levels
• Optimize asset utilization, customer satisfaction, and profitability through dynamic rebalancing of inventory levels
• Meet customer expectations for on-time and complete product deliveries, accurate billing, customized labeling, and "never run out" inventory, while reducing the need for expedited shipments
• Minimize fixed and operational production costs by ensuring the high availability and reliability of production assets and consistent product quality
• Improve strategy execution and free up time and resources by integrating financial and material planning processes at strategic and operational levels
• Avoid penalties and loss of company value, reputation – or even permit to operate – by ensuring compliance with EH&S, trade security, and financial regulations

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Learn more about how SAP solutions have made a real difference to midsize companies in the chemical industry. Read some of our customer references.