Chemicals

Looking Ahead to 2030: A Review of Trends and Influencers in the European Chemical Industry

2011-08-31T05:00:00Z

Read Accenture study aimed at helping European chemical producers better determine how to evolve their businesses over the next 20 years.

Aligning Customer Segmentation with Industry Realities to Achieve High Performance in the Chemical Industry

2011-08-17T05:00:00Z

This Accenture paper looks at how, by using more sophisticated customer segmentation, companies can focus on the right customers, increase revenues, improve margins and position themselves as suppliers of choice in the chemicals industry.

Agility and Resilience in the Chemicals Industry

2011-08-09T05:00:00Z

Read Accenture’s research on agility and resilience in the chemical industry and identifying the short-term challenges facing chemical companies.

Bright Ideas

2011-08-08T05:00:00Z

Innovation drives growth in basic industries just as surely as it powers higher-profile high-tech players. However, while many energy and raw materials companies assume they already innovate effectively, only a few have fully mastered the challenge of combining invention and market success.

Getting Serious About Analytics: Better Insights, Better Outcomes

2011-04-26T05:00:00Z

Most businesses generate a lot of data, but relatively few use it effectively to create competitive advantage and enable high performance.

Achieving Operational Excellence: Five Elements of Success in the Global Chemicals Industry

2011-01-27T06:00:00Z

Read about Accenture research on achieving operational excellence and learn why companies in chemical industry must focus on operational excellence.

Customer Relationship Management for Chemicals

2010-12-06T06:00:00Z

Building leaner, more cost-effective businesses has become standard industry practice for chemical companies.

Accenture Customer Preferences Study for Chemicals

2010-06-01T05:00:00Z

Accenture, in partnership with the American Chemistry Council and TrueChoice® Solutions, conducted a study of what drives decisions around selecting suppliers.

Betting Against the Risk of the Outlier: Rethinking Risk Management

2010-05-19T05:00:00Z

A major lesson from the 2008 financial crisis is the recognition of the over-reliance on and shortcomings of value at risk, or VaR, as a risk measure.

Pricing for the Upturn: Pricing Strategies in the Chemical Industry

2010-04-30T05:00:00Z

At best, an ill-conceived pricing strategy may cause a company to miss the potential short-term gains offered by an improvement in the economy.

Driving Sustainability for High Performance in the Chemical Industry

2010-02-10T06:00:00Z

Sustainability’s implications for business will continue to evolve.

Winning the War for Talent in a Multi-Polar World

2010-02-10T06:00:00Z

A talented, skilled workforce is critical to high performance, but the advent of the multi-polar world is changing the rules of talent management.

Seizing Opportunities in a Low-Carbon Economy

2010-01-14T06:00:00Z

For organizations to achieve high performance during the uncertain journey to a low-carbon economy, Accenture believes the energy-intensive industrial sectors will increasingly need to optimize their assets and manage their carbon and energy risk in an integrated, enterprise-wide manner.

Mastering the Challenge of REACH

2009-12-22T06:00:00Z

Since June 2007, companies in the European Union that use, produce or import more than one ton of a chemical substance per year will need to comply with the "Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of Chemicals" legislation, better known as REACH.

Predictive Selling: A New Approach for the Chemicals Industry

2009-12-04T06:00:00Z

Predictive selling is more than a concept—it is an innovative application of technologies that many chemical companies have already put to work building competitive advantage and advancing to high performance.

Transforming Business Processes in the Chemical Industry

2009-12-01T06:00:00Z

The outsourcing of activities in the chemical industry is not new.

Chemical Executives Series: Managing Cycles

2009-12-01T06:00:00Z

Findings from a 2008 research study

Sharpening Business Models Helps Chemical Companies

2009-11-25T06:00:00Z

Today’s chemical company executives have much to contend with. The global economy has become more complex.

Succeeding in Challenging Times in the Chemicals Industry

2009-11-25T06:00:00Z

Since mid-2008, global demand has dropped dramatically and prices have followed suit.

Integrated Enterprise Risk Management in the Chemicals Industry

2009-11-16T06:00:00Z

Risk management capabilities need to become more sophisticated as market participants look to capitalize on both up and down markets.

Industrial Process Optimization

2009-09-02T05:00:00Z

Cost pressures, environmental issues, the need for sustainable operations and the growing demand for value-added products present constant challenges to industrial companies.

Improving Return on Assets

2009-08-25T05:00:00Z

Manufacturers work constantly to increase asset utilization and reduce loss in the ongoing effort to achieve high performance.

The Supply Chain Agility Index: Achieving High Performance in the Chemicals Industry

2009-05-27T05:00:00Z

How can businesses protect against the adverse effects of a stormy economy without handicapping their ability to grow once recovery begins?

Trends in Manufacturing Polymers

2008-02-26T06:00:00Z

Globalization, the formative idea of our age, continues to affect our economic geography in ways that we are only beginning to understand.

Supply Chain Planning in the Chemical Industry

2008-01-29T06:00:00Z

In recent years, supply chain planning tools have become increasingly powerful, and for chemical companies, they have a lot of appeal.

The Global Chemical Industry Supply Chain Best Practices Study

2007-09-14T05:00:00Z

Chemical companies face challenges ranging from global competition and global customers to increasingly complex operations and rising logistics costs.

Innovation Excellence: Creating Market Success in the Energy and Natural Resources Sector

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read about Accenture’s Stephan Scholtissek book on Innovation Excellence and creating market success in the energy and natural resources sector.

Advanced Enterprise Solution for Chemicals

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The Accenture Advanced Enterprise Solution for Chemicals is an innovative, comprehensive and proven ERP solution that accelerates enterprisewide business value for high performance.

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO): Services Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The key to outsourcing is finding a BPO services provider with a superior reputation and documented industry and functional experience.

Application Outsourcing: Services Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture believes application outsourcing isn’t about what you can subtract from a business. It’s about what you can add.

Agricultural Company: Effective Acquisition Integration

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read about Accenture helping the agricultural company in streamlining its processes through effective acquisition integration.

Chemicals Industry Business Events

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture shares its innovative experiences, ideas and insights in the chemical industry through our participation in leading industry conferences, executive forums and the chemical research industry association events.

Accenture Plant and Automation Solutions

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Unleashing Value in Core Operations

Braskem: SAP Solutions for Supply Chain Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helped this leading Brazilian petrochemicals company to transform its supply chain processes based on SAP NetWeaver.

R4CC: REACH Consortia Services Implementation

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helps R4CC achieve high performance through its REACH Consortia Services Implementation.

Yara: Sustainable Value Through Procurement

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helped Yara, a leading global chemical company, streamline and centralize its indirect procurement processes across 22 plants, generating massive ongoing savings.

Six Questions Every Executive in the Chemicals Industry Should Ask About Cloud Computing

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Most chemicals companies still are at an early stage in their adoption and usage of cloud computing, but the industry’s structure and prevailing trends mean it is well-positioned to leverage major benefits from this emerging technology.

Manufacturing Execution Systems

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Manufacturers of all types face a rapidly changing business environment

Application Services for SAP: Chemicals

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

SAP-based solutions for the chemicals industry: the Accenture Advanced Enterprise Solution for Chemicals.

Commodity Trading and Risk Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Commodity Trading and Risk Management services

Chemicals: Services Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Chemical companies and suppliers searching for better performance must define their competitive essence, determine how to out-structure and out-execute their competition and choose the proper change journey that leads to sustainable growth and innovation.

Solutions for REACH Legislation

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Data gathering, sharing and submission are the cornerstones of the REACH implementation, putting pressure on existing IT systems, organizations and business processes.

Business Interaction Solutions

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Chemical companies serious about staying ahead of the competition have embarked on a journey to become more customer centric.

Enterprise Solution for Midsize Chemical Companies

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The Accenture Enterprise Solution for Chemicals is a cost-effective, turnkey and proven enterprise resource planning solution to help midsize chemical companies accelerate business value for high performance.

Chemicals Services for the Middle East

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture can help chemicals companies in the Middle East navigate shifting markets to penetrate new markets around the world.

Infrastructure Outsourcing: Services Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture's approach to infrastructure outsourcing enables companies to achieve high performance, including cutting costs and sustaining profitability during these economic times.

PolyOne: High Performance through Business Transformation

Read how Accenture helped PolyOne use Lean Six Sigma to effect a business transformation and achieve high performance.

AkzoNobel: Globally Standardized SAP Implementation

Accenture helps AkzoNobel Polymer Chemicals implement a globally standardized SAP solution en route to high performance.

BP Chemicals: Rail Telematics

BP is the second-largest integrated oil company in the world.

Dow Chemical: Accenture Supply Chain Academy

The Accenture Supply Chain Academy helped Dow Chemical Co. meet its growth and leadership goals by building critical competencies and skills that ensure supply chain operational excellence.

WeylChem: SAP ERP System

Located in Griesheim, Germany, WeylChem Frankfurt GmbH emerged from the fine chemical division of Clariant AG.

Predictive Selling: A New Approach to High Performance for the Chemical Industries

Every day brings news of another company that has fallen victim to the contracting economy—usually, a company that lacked the agility to meet shifting market conditions.

Business Process Outsourcing for Indirect Spend

Companies in heavy industries face different types of challenges in today's global economy.

Accenture’s On-Demand Solution for the Chemical Industry: Driving Business Performance with SAP Business ByDesign

Accenture services for SAP Business By Design

Kumho Petrochemical: Process Standardization

Kumho Petrochemical chose Accenture to collaborate on a significant effort to improve the company’s business forecasting and global competitiveness via a major process innovation and enterprise resource planning engagement.