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Chemical industry - challenges & solutions

Capital-intensive capacities and facilities, short innovation and product cycles, increasing internationalisation and globalisation and the consequential consolidation processes, increasing competition and cost pressure, limited supply-chain integration and only partly customer-synchronous planning and prognosis are just a few examples of the challenges that companies in the chemical industry face. In addition, there are high investments for research and development, shortages in raw material, environment protection, optimal management of excess stock, fluctuating prices for material and energy and legal restraints and regulations such as REACH, material safety data sheets, handling of hazardous materials and goods. This is why it is so important,  especially for enterprises in the chemical industry, to provide for an efficient procurement policy,  smooth production and successful marketing by optimizing processes, proven and innovative software application and a competent specialist in the trade in order to obtain the necessary competitive advantage.

PlautWorks - The solution for the chemical industry

With PlautWorks for the chemical industry and many years of expertise, Plaut offers a solution, tailored to the requirements of your industry. The highlights are campaign planning, recipe management, quality management for in-process and post-process control, support of coupled production and version management, complete batch management, the “Process Operations Cockpit“ for connecting parts of the process control system and monitoring of the production control system, the compliance with the requirements of the REACH-regulation (EU chemicals regulation Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Registration of Chemicals), damage-caused or planned maintenance of production facilities, integrated company-wide planning of demand and production up to product costing and result calculation, preconfigured planning strategies for bulk goods and a number of filling processes including the respective packaging units, batch selection according to customer requirements, availability check of bulk goods triggered by customer order and automatic preparation of the filling order, integrated handling of exports including export declaration, preparation of the certificate of origin including the exact declaration of hazardous materials according to IMO and IATA, transfer documents for waste and polluted packaging, selection of specific suppliers, quality control of raw materials including sample management triggered by the incoming goods department, contracts and release orders (allocation), definition of cost centers and activity types and their connection to logistics, replenishment of the production warehouse via the central warehouse by replenishment-supply, calculation and billing of production orders for the (dis)continuous production for a transparent depiction of production costs, quality control with integrated inspection of raw materials, intermediate products, bulk goods and goods for sale, preparation of general and customized analysis certificates for deliverd goods as well as hazardous materials management and hazardous materials data for different carriers.

Plaut’s special features

Beside the pronounced focus on the chemical industry and the tradition in business management, high competence in business analytics and long-time experience in process management are Plaut’s strengths. In addition, Plaut possesses valuable skills and resources in SAP rollout projects, an international infrastructure for customer support, outstanding competences in SAP Human Capital Management and a modern infrastructure for SAP system- and application management. Our team comprises experienced change management experts, who guarantee users and project participants an optimum preparation for the challenges of the respective project and that they are able to contribute actively to the project success.

Your benefit

Profit from our industry-specific competence and our 60-year business management tradition. Secure your project success with the experience of our change management experts, our know-how in business process optimisation, our integrated solution and requirement-oriented range of services. Use the advantages of a solution, specific for the chemical industry, our proven methods as well as the culture of an international medium-sized company.

Increase the flexibility and efficiency of your IT-landscape with the modern Plaut infrastructure for SAP remote support and SAP system and application management.