Chemicals

Where materials, plants, quality and systems operate together

VISCAP supports chemical businesses coordinating materials, quality, plants, assets, cost, safety and business systems across process-manufacturing sites.

Operating models

  • Continuous process manufacturing
  • Batch process manufacturing
  • Campaign-based production
  • Multi-plant and multi-site operations
  • Make-to-stock and make-to-order supply
  • Tolling and contract manufacturing arrangements
  • Distributor and direct B2B sales models
  • Co-product and by-product production

Target segments

  • Specialty chemicals
  • Industrial and commodity chemicals
  • Polymers and plastics
  • Coatings, adhesives and sealants
  • Agricultural chemicals
  • Construction chemicals
  • Lubricants and process fluids
  • Hazardous and dangerous-goods supply chains
  • Other process manufacturers

Industry transformation priorities

Eight priorities recur when chemical businesses modernize, running unbroken across planning, plant, quality, people and cost.

Align demand, materials, capacity and process production

  • Forecast and order inputs
  • Material requirements planning
  • Capacity evaluation
  • Campaign and batch scheduling
  • Cross-plant coordination
  • Delivery commitments
  • Exception management

Improve procurement and raw-material coordination

  • Purchase requirements
  • Supplier processes
  • Raw-material availability
  • Goods receipt
  • Quality hand-offs
  • Inventory visibility
  • Warehouse movement
  • Slow-moving and excess stock

Strengthen batch production execution and yield

  • Recipes and formulations
  • Production orders
  • Material consumption
  • Batch assignment
  • Production confirmations
  • Yield and loss visibility
  • Co-product and by-product capture
  • Order completion

Connect quality with production and materials

  • Incoming inspection
  • In-process quality
  • Finished-product inspection
  • Non-conformance
  • Quality notifications
  • Corrective actions
  • Environmental and compliance-related records
  • Traceability where supported and validated

Connect maintenance with plant operations

  • Preventive maintenance
  • Corrective maintenance
  • Work orders
  • Spare parts
  • Technician allocation
  • Asset history
  • Downtime impact
  • Maintenance cost

Connect plant and shift workforces with time, payroll and cost

  • Employee records
  • Plant and shift structures
  • Time and attendance
  • Overtime and premiums
  • Workforce scheduling
  • Absence
  • Payroll inputs
  • Payroll controls
  • Finance integration
  • Labour-cost visibility

Improve cost, yield and margin visibility

  • Standard and actual cost
  • Material and yield variance
  • Batch costing
  • Co-product costing
  • Inventory valuation
  • Plant profitability
  • Product and customer margin
  • Management reporting

Connect B2B sales with fulfilment and service

  • Account management
  • Complex quotations
  • Product and pricing information
  • Distributor portals
  • Commerce
  • Order and fulfilment visibility
  • Service processes

How VISCAP supports this industry

Eight ways VISCAP engages: assessment, core delivery, modernization, integration, reporting, readiness, live operations and application management — each routing to its service.

All services

Define the transformation scope

  • Process-manufacturing models
  • Process variation
  • Existing SAP landscapes
  • Plant and third-party systems
  • Data dependencies
  • Integration requirements
  • Reporting requirements
  • Workforce dependencies
  • Migration priorities
  • Change impact
SAP Consulting and Advisory

Implement and roll out the enterprise core

  • SAP implementation
  • SAP rollout
  • Process redesign
  • Configuration
  • Environmental and compliance data
  • Testing
  • Deployment
SAP Implementation and Rollout

Modernize ECC to SAP S/4HANA

  • ECC to SAP S/4HANA modernization
  • System conversion
  • Custom-code modernization
  • Data migration
  • Landscape modernization
  • Cutover
  • Post-migration stabilisation
SAP Migration and Modernization

Connect plant and enterprise systems

  • SAP and non-SAP integration
  • Plant and enterprise connectivity
  • Supplier and logistics partners
  • API-led connections
  • B2B and EDI
  • Events
  • Interface modernization
  • Integration governance
SAP Integration

Improve reporting and decision support

  • Plant KPI definition
  • Reporting strategy
  • Data-model assessment
  • Yield and cost dashboards
  • Environmental-information reporting
  • Planning and forecasting
  • Finance and plant reporting alignment
SAP Data, Reporting and Analytics

Support user readiness and adoption

  • Process ownership
  • Role changes
  • Plant-user training
  • Cross-functional training
  • Adoption planning
  • Learning content
  • Post-go-live reinforcement
SAP Training and Change Enablement

Stabilise and improve live operations

  • Application support
  • Issue resolution
  • Process optimization
  • Performance and job stabilisation
  • Release and upgrade readiness
SAP Support and Optimization

Manage the live application estate

  • Application management
  • Enhancements
  • Change and release management
  • Application monitoring
  • Service-level governance
SAP Application Management

Relevant SAP solutions

Eight solutions as one mosaic — deeper teal means more foundational; full detail lives on each solution’s page.

Core foundation

SAP S/4HANA

Finance · Procurement · Batch manufacturing · Inventory · Quality · Assets · Warehousing · Cost and margin visibility

Explore Core foundation

SAP Integration Suite

Plant and enterprise connectivity · Supplier and logistics integration · Product and batch information · Order and inventory exchange · Maintenance systems · B2B and EDI · Hybrid integration

Detail stays on the Integration Suite page Explore Core foundation

SAP Analytics Cloud and Group Reporting

Yield and cost analysis · Plant performance · Inventory analysis · Margin analysis · Planning and forecasting · Cross-plant visibility · Management reporting

Detail stays on the dedicated Solution page Explore Operational enabler

SAP HCM, Time and Payroll

Plant and shift workforces · Time and attendance · Overtime and premiums · Payroll · Workforce scheduling · Organizational data · Payroll controls · Finance integration

Explore Operational enabler

SAP SuccessFactors

Skills and role requirements · Learning and certifications · Recruiting · Succession · Performance · Career development · Manager enablement

Explore Operational enabler

SAP Business Technology Platform

Plant and enterprise connectivity · Batch and inventory data · Supplier and logistics integration · Maintenance workflows · Mobile operational applications · Event-driven processes · Extension governance

Explore Conditional

SAP Customer Experience

Where the business has: B2B sales · Account management · Complex quotations · Product and pricing information · Distributor portals · Commerce · Service · Order and fulfilment visibility

Explore Conditional

SAP Business AI and Joule Readiness

Plant and maintenance processes · Procurement and supplier information · Product and inventory decisions · Quality and operational exceptions · Safety-related process governance · Data and system access controls

Explore

Common chemical-industry use cases

Where the positioning above becomes concrete work.

Batch production connected with materials and capacity

Connect recipes, campaigns, MRP, production schedules, and delivery commitments across plants.

SAP ERP connected with plant and process-control systems

Move production, consumption, quality, and equipment information between plant and enterprise systems.

Multi-plant production and inventory visibility

A consistent view of materials, batches, stock, and transfers across locations.

Quality connected with production, inventory, and cost

Understand how non-conformance, rework, and loss affect operations and margin.

Maintenance connected with production and spare parts

Coordinate assets, work orders, technicians, spares, downtime, and maintenance cost.

Plant shift time connected with payroll and finance

Move attendance, premiums, scheduling, and absence into payroll and labour-cost reporting.

Yield, co-product, and margin analysis

Analyse material, yield, and cost variances against plan across products and plants.

B2B orders and quotations connected with production

Keep quotations, pricing, orders, availability, and fulfilment consistent for direct and distributor sales.

Case study

Consistency as a foundation at Gulbrandsen

Core HR and talent processes running reliably for a global specialty chemicals business, supported through AMS.
Case study

From manual reviews to digital PMGM at Paushak

A manual performance process fully digitized — structured cycles, approval workflows and 90% less manual tracking.
Insight

When does a growing business need enterprise HCM?

Employee count shows headcount, not complexity. Five signals that HR complexity is outgrowing the current model, and a readiness lens that beats counting heads.
Insight

SLAs that measure the business, not the ticket queue

Response-time targets can be met while the business still can’t close the month — what a support contract should measure instead.

Frequently asked questions

SAP S/4HANA carries finance, procurement, batch manufacturing, inventory, quality, assets and warehousing on one live system; SAP Integration Suite connects plants, suppliers and logistics partners; SAP Analytics Cloud turns the result into yield, cost and margin reporting.

Continuous, batch and campaign-based production; make-to-stock and make-to-order supply; tolling and contract arrangements with co-product and by-product capture; and multi-plant operations planned and reported as one network.

Yes — that’s SAP Integration’s job. Production, consumption, quality and equipment data moves between plant and enterprise systems via API-led connections and events, putting maintenance systems, suppliers and logistics partners on one governed landscape instead of point-to-point wiring.

Assessment before commitment: process-manufacturing models, the landscape, plant and third-party systems, environmental and compliance data, integration and reporting dependencies. Then a phased programme — process redesign, configuration, data migration, testing, deployment and stabilisation.

One record, gate to ledger: SAP HCM, Time and Payroll holds employee records against plant and shift structures, captures time, attendance, overtime and premiums, applies payroll controls, and posts to finance — labour cost as fact, not reconciliation.

SAP Analytics Cloud and Group Reporting carry yield and cost analysis, plant performance, inventory analysis, margin analysis by product and customer, environmental information, and planning and forecasting rolled into management reporting — deeper capabilities live on their own Solution page.

Readiness before adoption: prioritise plant and maintenance processes, procurement and supplier information, and quality and operational exceptions; then check process, data and integration readiness, data and system access controls, and safety-related process governance. A controlled path, not a switch to flip.

No — deliberately: our chemical-industry work centres on S/4HANA, Integration Suite, Analytics Cloud and Group Reporting, HCM Time and Payroll, SuccessFactors, BTP, and conditionally Customer Experience and Business AI readiness. SAP Digital Manufacturing, IBP, EAM, APM, PLM and Business Network are wider ecosystem considerations only.

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