Case Study: Albemarle achieves streamlined operations and real-time insights with SAP Ariba

How Can a Digital Transformation Help Drive the Future of Innovation and Empower People’s Potential

Albemarle Corporation, a global chemicals producer of lithium, bromine, and catalyst solutions, sought to modernize its IT and business landscape to support growth and sustainability. The company faced fragmented, highly customized legacy ERP systems, manual shipping and invoicing processes, slow financial closings, and challenges assimilating a recent acquisition — all of which limited its ability to upgrade systems and pursue future innovation.

Albemarle implemented SAP S/4HANA and a broad suite of SAP solutions, using industry best-practice processes with >95% standardization and zero core-code changes, enabled by SAP services and partners. In an 18‑month program and subsequent flawless upgrade, the company gained a single source of truth for ~5,000 users, real‑time analytics, faster closings, automated order-to-cash and logistics processes, improved customer service and safety, reduced expedited shipment costs and spend leakage, and a simplified, future-ready platform for ongoing innovation.

Albemarle

Larry East

Vice President Business Transformation