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Chemicals

Industries

Every tonne compliant, every margin defended.

Chemical producers sit at the centre of ambitious downstream growth — feedstock advantages are real, but so are tightening safety regimes, product-compliance demands from every export market and the swing of global capacity cycles.

Altivate delivers the SAP core built for this: SAP S/4HANA as the integrated financial and operational backbone, SAP EHS for environment, health and safety, SAP Product Safety for product compliance, and SAP Integrated Business Planning with SAP Transportation Management to balance plants, demand and dangerous-goods movements.

We make that core intelligent with SAP Business AI and Joule, and Altivate agentic AI working on your own plant, safety and margin data.

The outcome: audits that pass, incidents that don’t happen and a cost base sized to the cycle.

Your chemicals value chain
Feedstock Production Compliance Planning Shipping
SAP digital core
SAP S/4HANA SAP EHS SAP Product Safety SAP Integrated Business Planning SAP Transportation Management
Data & AI intelligence — the Altivate difference
SAP Business Data Cloud SAP Business AI · Joule Altivate agentic AI
Audit-ready compliance Safer operations Cycle-resilient planning Leaner infrastructure
From feedstock to shipped product: the chemicals value chain runs on the SAP core, with data and AI layered on top for safety, compliance and margin.
The pressures

The pressures reshaping chemicals

Feedstock advantage doesn’t exempt anyone from the compliance and cycle squeeze.

Export markets keep adding product-compliance and registration requirements producers must evidence.
Safety and environmental regimes are tightening, and regulators expect systems, not paperwork.
Global capacity swings compress margins just as feedstock economics shift.
Dangerous-goods logistics add cost and risk to every shipment that leaves the plant.
Ageing ERP estates and growing databases inflate infrastructure cost and slow every close.
Delivery

What Altivate delivers on SAP

Deep SAP delivery for process industry — from the ledger to the loading bay.

One core for the complex

SAP S/4HANA integrates production, inventory and finance across plants and legal entities. Batch, formulation and co-product costing come standard, so margin per grade is real, not estimated.

Safety as a system

SAP EHS manages permits, exposure, incidents and environmental reporting inside the same landscape your operations run on. Safety moves out of binders and into the daily workflow.

Product compliance, evidenced

SAP Product Safety keeps classifications, safety data sheets and dangerous-goods data current across every market you sell into. Compliance documentation generates from master data, not memory.

Planning that rides the cycle

SAP Integrated Business Planning balances feedstock, capacity and demand across scenarios, while SAP Transportation Management executes compliant dangerous-goods movements. You commit volumes with your eyes open.

The edge

Where AI changes the game

SAP alone is table stakes — SAP made intelligent with AI is the edge.

Joule in daily operations

Joule brings SAP Business AI into planning, maintenance and finance work — plain-language answers against live plant and cost data. Deviations surface as they form, not at month-end.

Agents on your plant data

Altivate builds agentic AI on your own production, safety and quality data — monitoring incident patterns, drafting compliance documentation and chasing open EHS actions. The data never leaves your governed landscape.

Margins predicted per grade

SAP Business Data Cloud unifies plant, price and logistics data so margin by grade, customer and lane is forecast continuously. See the squeeze coming a quarter early.

Proof

Proven in chemicals

65%database size optimization

As an SAP Gold Partner and SAP Partner Center of Expertise (PCoE), Altivate upgraded Farabi Petrochemicals to SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2023 on RISE — migrating from on-premise HANA in roughly five months, live in November 2025, with historical attachments moved to SAP BTP Document Management Service and a 65% reduction in database and infrastructure footprint. Read the Farabi Petrochemicals success story →

Trusted by Farabi, QAFCO, QAPCO and Advanced Petrochemical

  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud (RISE) migration
  • ~5-month go-live

Altivate is certified to ISO 27001.

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