The new roadmap for chemicals is available at SAP´s Service marketplace here . It gives an overview on most important innovations for chemicals in 2014
(recent) and provides an outlook on innovations to come in 2015 (planned).
Please note that the roadmap is not complete since it refers to innovations that are both – important and of specific relevancy for chemicals. Therefore one should also look at roadmaps for Procurement, Financials and HR which are not covered in chemicals roadmap that refers to the areas of Products, Manufacturing and Supply Chain only. Other roadmaps can be found here
A complete listing of chemical industry relevant innovations can be found in Innovation
Discovery .
And here is an overview of 2014 Highlights
- Enhancements for QM usability and SAP Quality Issue Management
- Functional and usability enhancements for SAP Portfolio and Project Management
- Supply Chain Integrity
- Reporting improvements and SAP HANA enablement of the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) application
- Better support of health- and safety-related processes with the SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management) application
- SAP Transportation Management powered by SAP HANA and improved for carriers and strategic freight management
- Supply chain control tower in the cloud
- Sales and Operations Planning
- SAP Enterprise Inventory and Service-Level Optimization
Innovation Highlights of 2015 are
- REACH Exposure Scenario Management – Electronic Data Exchange
- Product safety: improvements for safety data sheet management and dangerous goods
management - Continuous Improvements (Customer connects) for Recipe Development and Project and
Portfolio Management - Risk assessment improvements and air emissions management with SAP EHS Management /
enhancements for management of change - Remote PCo configuration from SAP MII and SAP HANA smart data access adaptor for SAP
MII - Enhancements for SAP Overall Equipment Effectiveness Management on SAP Manufacturing
Integration and Intelligence - SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service 2.0
- SAP Supply Chain Control Tower solution enhanced to improve performance and process
control - SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations 6.0
- Enhancements to Strategic Freight Management and Deepening Integration of Supply Chain Executions
- Transit warehousing in SAP Transportation Management
- Inventory optimization for complex supply chains
