Case Study: Global Chemicals Company achieves workforce mobility and real-time SAP access with OutSystems

Global Chemicals Company Makes SAP Easier and Mobilizes its Workforce with 35 Apps Built Using OutSystems

A global chemicals company relied on SAP as its core system but suffered from low employee adoption because SAP was complex and lacked mobile access—often only one or two people per plant knew how to use it, causing delays and stale data. Traditional SAP development proved slow, costly, and dependent on external resources, so the IT team evaluated low-code platforms to quickly democratize access to SAP.

Adopting OutSystems, a two‑developer in‑house team built 35+ web and mobile apps in under three years, integrating SAP, Tableau, Azure, Salesforce and IoT systems to cover sales, PLM, asset management and more. The internal app factory now delivers fixes in hours and new apps in days or weeks, serves roughly 4,000 employees and tens of thousands of supply‑chain users, improves data quality, and eliminated reliance on external developers.