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SAP solutions for chemical and petroleum
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| Achieve best in class status with SAP solutions
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SAP solutions for chemical and petroleum can help boost the value of your enterprise resource planning (ERP) investment. We offer proven methodologies and templates used by leading chemical and petroleum companies to help you build business value through better enterprise portals, customer relationship, supply chain and product lifecycle management.
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| Benefit from our industry experience
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SAP solutions for chemical and petroleum leverage our extensive industry experience:
- IBM is one of the first strategic global partners of SAP.
- We are a preferred SAP solutions integrator for the upstream industry.
- We built and implemented the first industry specific templates for rapid deployment.
- IBM has implemented SAP successfully at major integrated oil and gas companies, and independent local oil and gas companies.
- IBM is the first organization to establish an SAP Center of Expertise in the U.S.
- We have over 3,700 successful SAP engagements at over 6,000 sites.
- IBM is a leading implementation partner for SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO), with one of the largest APO practices.
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| Integrate, collaborate for a competitive advantage
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SAP solutions for chemical and petroleum deliver industry specific features that can help chemical and petroleum companies improve customer relationships.
- Empower employees to respond to customer needs more quickly.
- Provide a consistent view of customer information at every point of contact.
- Build a demand-driven supply chain in which sales and service personnel become more active in anticipating and meeting customer demands.
Through efficient supply chain management, our solution can help you reduce costs, increase revenue and retain customers.
- Cost-effectively match supply and demand through integrated, collaborative planning tools.
- Reduce inventories, without reducing your ability to meet unexpected demand.
- Integrate systems with public and private e-marketplaces to quickly and easily compare suppliers on a global basis.
- Increase planning accuracy and real time location of products around the world, improving customer service.
Greater access through an enterprise portal with SAP solutions can help your company:
- Integrate all types of enterprise data and take control of heterogeneous IT environments.
- Provide users with timely alerts that give them quick access to personalized, role-based enterprise information.
- Deliver advanced capabilities for categorizing and searching for information.
- Enable and encourage collaboration between users.
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| Greater functionality at work for greater benefits
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SAP solutions for chemical and petroleum go to work daily for many companies in the industry:
- A Fortune 50 integrated oil company redesigned their procurement processes to standardize procurement operations, lower costs and improve their ability to aggregate commodity spend data. The company anticipates US$63 million in procurement savings over the next five years as a result of the project.
- A global chemicals business benefited from our help in establishing a foundation for common processing of customer orders, management of distribution and logistics, and accounting and financial reporting. They have realized savings that include:
- IT cost reductions from the elimination of regional infrastructure costs.
- Consolidation of global finance and report functions.
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| Maximize your ERP investment
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SAP solutions for chemical and petroleum can help you realize an attractive payoff from your ERP investment:
- Improve asset use and reduce unnecessary capital expenditures.
- Increase revenue through more efficient customer acquisition.
- Enhance cross- and up-selling opportunities.
- Reduce costs by automating interactions, optimizing inventories and streamlining processes.
- Increase field productivity with faster, easier resolution.
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Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM chemicals and petroleum specialist.
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