Chemical Industry - Midmarket

News for the Chemicals Midmarket

The IBU Chemicals is presenting a series of recorded knowledge transfer sessions on the SAP Business All-in-One solution and the Best Practices for Chemicals package. The sessions provide an overview of the business and IT value of the Best Practices for Chemicals package, details on the preconfigured content and business processes, as well as solution highlights.

See the agenda and listen to a recorded session. Sessions are scheduled through to the end of November.

Midmarket Blogs

• Knowledge Transfer Sessions on SAP Business All-in-One for Chemicals
• Podcast: Chemicals @ BPX: Highlighting the Chemicals Midmarket areas
• New DVD: "SAP Business All-in-One for Chemicals"
• New ARC Analyst Report on SAP Best Practices for Chemicals
  

SAP in the Chemicals Midmarket

Over 30 years of experience working with 2,300+ customers (75% small and midsize chemicals customers) with 4,800+ installations around the globe and the broadest set of industry-specific functionalities for chemical companies has made SAP software the de-facto standard in the chemical industry and the most complete solution for midmarket chemical companies and their value chain. This wiki brings together information, documents and links for you to find out more about SAP in the chemicals midmarket and our solutions.

• SAP for Chemicals Midsize Company Homepage
• SAP and the Chemical Industry Presentation                     

SAP DVD for the Chemicals Midmarket: SAP Business All-in-One for Chemicals

Success Stories

Customer References in the Midsize Chemical Industry

SAP isn't just for large companies. In fact, most of our customers are successful midsize companies. To help you learn more about how SAP solutions have made a real difference to midsize chemical companies, we've compiled some of their stories.

• Customer References

SAP Business All-in-One

SAP Business-All-in-One Overview

SAP Business All-in-One is specifically designed for midmarket companies. The solution combines SAP's leading-edge ERP software,  SAP Best Practices packages (with preconfgured processes, implementation accelerators, methodologies, tools),  as well as special services and financing options to meet the needs of midmarket companies. Depending on company size (and corresponding functionality requirements), SAP and our partners are offering two midmarket Best Practices packages for SAP Business All-in-One. The SAP Best Practices Baseline package is suitable for small and lower midmarket size companies. The SAP Best Practices for Chemicals Package is an extended offering for medium to upper-midmarket size companies and delivers proven preconfigurations specifically for the chemical industry.

• SAP Best Practices Homepage

SAP Best Practices for Chemicals Package

SAP Best Practices for Chemicals has been developed with the help of 20+ partners, chemical industry associations, and the close cooperation of top industry analysts. The package delivers 84 preconfigured scenarios covering innovation management, supplier collaboration, supply chain planning and execution, manufacturing planning and execution, quality management and compliance, sales and marketing, and enterprise management and support. SAP Best Practices for Chemicals is a proven, quality, comprehensive package that was designed specifically for the chemical industry, and as such delivers chemical-specific, best practice preconfigurations for areas such as recipe management, active ingredient processing, blending, sample processing, tank trailer filling, EHS products safety and dangerous goods management etc. Take a look at the Best Practices for Chemicals homepage to get full details of scenarios covered and available country localizations.

Further information:

• SAP Business All-in-One (BAiO) for Chemicals presentation 
• Best Practices for Chemicals: Functions in Detail
• Best Practices for Chemicals - country versions and documentation (Select country version to proceed to futher information)
• Best Practices for Chemicals - Interactive Scenario Map
• How to Order Best Practices for Chemicals

SAP Best Practices Baseline Package

The SAP Best Practices Baseline package delivers a basic, yet comprehensive set of implementation accelerator tools and services, and preconfigured business processes to support chemical companies manage their main financial and operations processes -  from product development, procure-to-pay, supply chain planning and execution, manufacturing planning and execution, order-to-cash, financials and analytics. The Baseline Package is delivered via the fast start program and SAP's qualified fast start partners to enable rapid time-to-value and cost-effective implementation.

The SAP Best Practices Baseline package is offered as a fixed scope, fix price package for lower midsize companies and is available in over 50 country versions. Check out the the Solution Configurator -  an online tool to quickly and easily scope your solution and get a cost estimate.

As SAP Business All-in-One is a flexible, extensible solution, this package can also be extended with further best practice configurations and content from the SAP Best Practices for Chemicals package for chemical-specific needs.  

Further information:

• Baseline Package Overview Presentation for Chemical Companies
• BAiO / Baseline Package Solution Brief
• Baseline Package Country Versions and SAP Best Practice Documentation
• Baseline Package Preconfigured Scenarios
• Baseline Package Interactive Scenario Map
• The Fast Start Program
• The Solution Configurator

SAP Best Practices for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Package

SAP Business All-in-One also offers comprehensive, preconfigured SAP CRM Best Practices. This package enables midsize chemical companies to efficiently manage customers, brands and sales effectiveness. SAP Business All-in-One CRM supports a company's end-to-end processes for customer relationship management, operations and analytics with preconfigured roles for marketing, sales and service. Access the SAP Best Practices for CRM homepage for more details.

• SAP BAiO CRM Overview for Chemicals Presentation
• SAP BAiO CRM Solution Brief
• SAP Best Practices for CRM Homepage
• Country Versions and SAP Best Practice Documentation
• Preconfigured Scenarios

Best Practice Implementation

SAP Business All-in-One solutions are designed to support easy, accelerated implementation - offering preconfigured solutions, comprehensive documentation, tools and automated procedures to support each step of the implementation life-cycle - from knowledge transfer for project blueprinting, system scoping during implementation, business process and master data personalization, solution activation, system testing and end-user training. SAP Best Practices for Chemicals deliver preconfigured, pre-tested, and comprehensively documented best practice processes for the chemical industry. Furthermore, this implementation content is provided for integrated use with the SAP Solution Manager to support rapid blueprinting, testing, roll-out etc.

• Implementation Tools and SAP Solution Manager

SAP Business All-in-One Partners for Chemicals

SAP has a strong, experienced set of qualified partners around the globe offering complete and affordable packages for SAP Business All-in-One implementation for midmarket chemical companies. SAP partner BAiO packages provide fully configured, enterprise-class solutions based on SAP ERP and the SAP Best Practices for Chemicals package, additional preconfigured scenarios for niche segments, complementary software, as well as implementation services.

• Partner Business All-in-One solutions for Chemicals (page coming soon)

Service and Support

SAP Service and Support for Midmarket Companies

SAP provides a comprehensive portfolio of services to ensure that business and IT needs are properly supported. These offerings span all phases of the solution life cycle - from project management, training and knowledge transfer services, to hosting, application management services, and financing offerings.

Analyst Reports

Articles, Reports and Benchmarks

Read the new report from analyst ARC by Greg Gorbach, VP for Collaborative Manufacturing and Architecture at ARC Advisory Group, describing SAP Best Practices for Chemicals as "an excellent starting point for SAP ERP implementations".

• ARC Brief; Implementable Best Practices Speed Chemical Industry SAP ERP Deployments

CIO Decisions interviews CIOs from mid-market companies and writes how, contrary to SAP's image of being too big, too expensive and complex, SAP is making strong inroads in the midmarket. Read what SAP customers have to say about SAP's offering for the midmarket.

• CIO Decisions: SAP Comes Down to Size

Read why SAP ERP software and SAP Best Practices for Chemicals were the best choice for mid-market chemical company Vertellus Specialties.

• Chemical Maker Finds ERP Fully Supports Its Growth-Through-Acquisition Strategy (Manufacturing Business Technology Magazine)