Case Study: Clariant achieves near-real-time dynamic product-cost forecasting and higher margins with SAP HANA

Staying Ahead of Volatile Global Markets with Real-Time, Dynamic Price Forecasting

Clariant AG, a global leader in specialty chemicals, faced a major challenge: predicting finished‑goods costs across multistep bills of materials, many plants and currencies in highly volatile raw‑material markets. Their legacy forecasting tool produced only a single, slow simulation that often took weeks to process and left procurement and sales with outdated cost data and limited scenario visibility.

Partnering with MIBCON NDC, Clariant deployed a production benchmarking and simulation engine built on SAP HANA, SAP BW and SAP Analytics Cloud, with procurement inputs via a web app and live connections to SAP S/4HANA. The solution runs near‑real‑time multi‑scenario cost simulations (minutes vs weeks), delivers user‑friendly dashboards, data validation and secure access, and enables proactive pricing and margin management — improving responsiveness, margins and global transparency across complex BOMs and locations.

Clariant

Markus Mirgeler

Head of Procurement