A year ago, Huntsman embarked on a supply chain transformation to radically challenge their traditional processes and move to standard SAP, which required an alignment of people, process, and a smart use of existing technology. Huntsman set out to optimize its supply chain by maximining material requirements planning while increasing the maturity and education of its business user community along with aligning demand, production planning, and the procurement processes. Huntsman took a strategic approach to leverage the core SAP technology it already owned and implemented a strategic and tactical plan that drove a payback within 12 months and elevated the global end-to-end planning process to another level. In addition to the immediate cost savings, this process started preparing the business for the future SAP S/4HANA® migration.
Key Business Benefits:
• How Huntsman implemented a culture of real-time, reliable decision-making to quickly respond to changing market demands
• How Huntsman reduced a significant part of its spreadsheet processes and SAP customization and in doing so created a single source of truth (i.e., core SAP)
• How Huntsman stabilized manufacturing to better utilize capacity and optimized supply chain to meet the demand
