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Hear what Hitachi Consulting clients and industry analysts are saying about SAP's Best Practices for Chemical Companies and Hitachi Consulting's Hi-PACE SAP Implementation Solution.
Vertellus
In only 16 weeks, which industry project leaders say is remarkable for its speed, Hitachi Consulting and a dedicated team at Vertellus completed the upgrade to the latest version of SAP ERP 6.0, positioning the company for rapid expansion and greater business functionality.
"This was a strategic move for our company as the entire chemical industry continues on a path of growth through acquisition. We now have a highly secure, solid, and supportable ERP system that serves as an integrated base from which to grow our business and increase our competitive advantage." Mike Boster, CIO, Vertellus
Read the Vertellus Case Study
Watch the Vertellus video
FutureFuel
According to Frank Kochendoerfer, Director of SAP Labs, LLC, who was quoted in the May issue of Chemical Engineering, 'a prime example of the potential time savings can be found in FutureFuel Corp., a company that was spun off by Eastman Chemical Company late last year, and whose portfolio of products includes biofuels. SAP's partner, Hitachi Consulting, used the "Best Practices" approach in the Future Fuel implementation and had the system up and running in five months.
That is certainly better than the minimum of nine months that an implementation from scratch would have required, he says. Typically, a company starting with no SAP platform at all can slash setup time by at least 30% by piggybacking on the experience that the firm (Hitachi Consulting) has gathered.'
General Chemical
"Our company is expanding rapidly and requires these state-of-the-art tools to enable pro-active management of our business and to drive our future success."
Tom Testa, VP and General Manager, General Chemical
Read the General Chemical Press Release
Coatings Manufacturer
This global coatings company reduced product lifecycles, reduced decision-making time and calculated more accurate product cost.
Read the full case study
Custom Chemicals Company
This company needed a new ERP system quickly, when it spun off from its corporate parent. Read the full case study
AMR Research
"Small and midsize business chemicals prospects should view SAP as the low-risk option for enterprise resource planning (ERP) ... Mid-market chemicals prospects should put SAP Best Practices for Chemicals at the top of their ERP short list - a list that will have few low-risk candidates with matching functionality." Colin Masson, AMR Research, May 14, 2004
Hitachi Consulting is profiled, alongside twelve other service providers in this industry segment, in AMR's 2007 SAP Services Landscape for the Midmarket: Elusive Business Case for Service Provider Partners report by Dana Stiffler and Simon Jacobsen.
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