Case Study: Ascend Performance Materials achieves streamlined, insight-driven pricing with SAP Fieldglass

How Does a Cloud Pricing Solution Enable Smarter Pricing Decisions Based on Insightful Analytics

Ascend Performance Materials, a global producer of chemicals, fibers, and the world’s largest fully integrated Nylon 66 manufacturer, faced limitations with a legacy pricing tool that required IT coding for new formulas, struggled to manage spot and contract pricing, and lacked automation and cross‑departmental visibility for analytics and decision making.

By deploying Pricefx’s Optimized Dynamic Pricing from the SAP industry cloud and integrating it with SAP ERP, Ascend gained in‑line analytics, waterfall and predictive analyses, automated quoting, and a flexible formula engine that uses market index publications for more than 50% of its contract pricing. The end-to-end solution—delivered in seven months—improved productivity and accuracy, reduced manual errors and approval times, and provided better historical and guideline pricing for spot and contract management.

Ascend

Andy Lively

Pricing Manager, Ascend Performance Materials