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SAP for Chemicals Functionality
SAP has been delivering on its chemicals industry strategy by expanding its capabilities for manufacturing and supply chain management, broadening its composite package applications in areas such as emissions management, pricing management, and manufacturing dashboards, and focusing on mid-market companies.

CHEMICALS IT SOLUTIONS: SAP for Chemicals Functionality SAP for Chemicals Functionality Olin Thompson and PJ Jakovljevic - May 31, 2006 Read Comments SAP for Chemicals Functionality SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) is well-known for its enterprise applications software tailored to the chemicals industry. For a detailed tutorial on the chemicals industry, see So What s the Big Deal with Chemicals? . For a discussion of the SAP approach to packaged solutions, see SAP Industry Solutions for Mid-market Companies . And for a discussion directly
5/31/2006

Chemicals and Allied Products: Howard Johnson, Inc.
Howard Johnson’s Enterprises, Inc. (HJE) is a provider of lawn and garden fertilizer products whose discrete manufacturing package assumed a discrete process. It took ProcessPro eight months to implement a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that worked to address HJE’s unique needs.

CHEMICALS IT SOLUTIONS: Chemicals and Allied Products: Howard Johnson, Inc. Chemicals and Allied Products: Howard Johnson, Inc. Source: ProcessPro Software Document Type: Case Study Description: Howard Johnson’s Enterprises, Inc. (HJE) is a provider of lawn and garden fertilizer products whose discrete manufacturing package assumed a discrete process. It took ProcessPro eight months to implement a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that worked to address HJE’s unique needs. Chemicals and Allied Products: Howard
4/29/2005 9:33:00 AM

SAP Case Study: Chemicals
The ability of BASF AG—a leader in the chemicals industry—to proactively manage unexpected situations is key to its competitiveness. With its complex supply network dealing with unanticipated events is all the more critical. To address this issue, BASF implemented the SAP Event Management application to monitor ocean-freight logistics, from receipt of initial orders to final delivery of products.

CHEMICALS IT SOLUTIONS: SAP Case Study: Chemicals SAP Case Study: Chemicals Source: SAP Document Type: Case Study Description: The ability of BASF AG—a leader in the chemicals industry—to proactively manage unexpected situations is key to its competitiveness. With its complex supply network dealing with unanticipated events is all the more critical. To address this issue, BASF implemented the SAP Event Management application to monitor ocean-freight logistics, from receipt of initial orders to final delivery of products. SAP
2/13/2007 3:51:00 PM

So What’s the Big Deal with Chemicals?
Due to the inherent challenges of the industry, most chemical companies are still unable to profitably respond to highly variable demand, or to execute predictable product supply strategies.

CHEMICALS IT SOLUTIONS: the fact remains that chemicals are a mature, slow-moving industry. It might even expose quite a set of challenges and complexities within the industry: low asset turnover limited production flexibility decreasing product innovation (especially for basic chemical manufacturers, such as commodity producers of plastics and rubber; fibers; raw materials and intermediates; inorganic materials; fertilizers; and so on), given the increasing rarity of new chemistry discoveries. Furthermore, while the soaring pri
12/24/2007

McHugh Software’s DigitaLogistix Built On Strong Foundation
For the past 25 years, McHugh Software has quietly plied the supply chain execution trade. Its new DigitaLogistix suite successfully marries traditional and next-generation applications, giving the company a reason to shout.

CHEMICALS IT SOLUTIONS: | SAP for the Chemicals Industry: Challenges and User Recommendations | SAP for Chemicals: A Packaged Solution for Mid-market Companies | SAP Industry Solutions for Mid-market Companies | Continuous Improvement Case Study: Taking Baby Steps towards Tangible Benefits | Overcoming Chemicals Industry Challenges through Optimization of Distribution and Inventory | Supply Chain Management Vendor Finds Balance for Service Supply Chains | Getting It Right: Product, Quality, Timing, and Price | Product Lifecycle
5/4/2001

Primavera Systems

CHEMICALS IT SOLUTIONS: Located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania (US), Primavera Systems Inc. is a product portfolio management company that has provided industry specific solutions to more than 75,000 customers, globally. It was established in 1983 and has serviced a number of industries, including aerospace and defense, financial services, high technology, and chemicals.

BatchMaster Software, Inc.

CHEMICALS IT SOLUTIONS: BatchMaster has been the preeminent provider of process manufacturing solutions for more than twenty years. Its focus on the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) needs of small to mid-size process manufacturers has, since 1983, made it possible for those companies to have a technologically current solution wholly focused on the challenges of batch processing. Its success is clear: BatchMaster is being used by over 1,100 companies worldwide.From its early work on the best way to handle by-products, to its pioneering development of the SuperBatch, BatchMaster has been at the forefront of bringing affordable innovation to the process manufacturer. It has done so by maintaining a commitment to being responsive, so that its delivery of information to process manufacturers is the result of conversations with process manufacturers, the result of experience. Experience that has, moreover, led BatchMaster to focus upon being the complete solution for all phases of the batch processing operation.In the choice to manage all aspects of a process manufacturing, BatchMaster committed a paradigm of considerable depth. The BatchMaster application has been a sound and reliable choice for customers who manufacture foods and beverages, paints and coatings, cosmetics and other personal care products, pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. Manufacturers of specialty chemicals have been particularly pleased over the years with BatchMaster Enterprise products because the information flow from laboratory to formulation to costing scenario complements and models how they do business.This same legacy of knowing and understanding the process manufacturers requirements allowed BatchMaster to lead the way in providing small to mid-market process manufacturers with an affordable material requirements planning (MRP) package. The decision was not one that could have been made by a newcomer to the arena. The BatchMaster success with affordable MRP is, in no small part, the result of the companys heritage: only a firm with a wealth of informationinformation developed over timeabout the kinds of challenges process manufacturers can face as they strive to manage what they know about demand, what they know about production, and what they believe they should buy. When you select BatchMaster, you select a partner who understands that one of the best uses of the past is as a means to prepare for the future. BatchMaster Enterprise, a fifth generation ERP product, stands as a complete solution for all phases of the batch processing operation. Through the result of experience and quality, BatchMaster is at the forefront of bringing affordable innovation to the process manufacturer.

TROPOS

CHEMICALS IT SOLUTIONS: Tropos has been developed by Epicor as the first choice in ERP for process oriented manufacturing. It has also been developed for short-cycle demand-driven manufacturing and the needs of regulated industries. The majority of ERP products were designed around discrete manufacture; Tropos was designed for process manufacture from the start. Recipe-based Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) and MRPII are built in. Tropos is ideal for food processors and packers, pharmaceuticals, mills and metals processing, specialty chemicals and general manufacturing in process oriented industries, particularly those supplying the major retailers or those distributing short shelf-life products.

What s Wrong With Application Software?Businesses Really Are Unique - One Size Can Never Fit All
Does your company do things exactly like your competitor? Does your company do things like another company who is a totally different business? For some applications, the answer is YES, but for most they answer is either, NOT VERY or NO WAY. Then can we expect any single application product to be the best for all companies?

CHEMICALS IT SOLUTIONS: | SAP for the Chemicals Industry: Challenges and User Recommendations | SAP for Chemicals Functionality | SAP for Chemicals: A Packaged Solution for Mid-market Companies | Yes, We Have No Bananas: Consumer Goods Manufacturers Serve Demanding Customers | SAP Industry Solutions for Mid-market Companies | Continuous Improvement Case Study: Taking Baby Steps towards Tangible Benefits | Managing Demand: Considerations for the Chemicals Industry | Overcoming Chemicals Industry Challenges through Optimization
2/10/2003

Demand-driven Planning in Manufacturing
Cover-time planning (CTP) is a

CHEMICALS IT SOLUTIONS: | SAP for the Chemicals Industry: Challenges and User Recommendations | SAP for Chemicals: A Packaged Solution for Mid-market Companies | Yes, We Have No Bananas: Consumer Goods Manufacturers Serve Demanding Customers | SAP Industry Solutions for Mid-market Companies | Continuous Improvement Case Study: Taking Baby Steps towards Tangible Benefits | Managing Demand: Considerations for the Chemicals Industry | Overcoming Chemicals Industry Challenges through Optimization of Distribution and Inventory |
8/9/2005

Apprise Software, Inc.

CHEMICALS IT SOLUTIONS: Founded in 1984, Apprise Software, Inc. is a provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) software and services for midsized consumer goods companies. By leveraging technologies such as Microsoft .NET, wireless warehouse solutions, and radio frequency identification (RFID)-along with industry best practices-Apprise Software provides consumer goods companies with enterprise-wide solutions designed to meet their unique business requirements. Apprise Software is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (US), with offices in Nanjing (China), Sydney (Australia), and Brno (Czech Republic).