Customer Profiles

Chemical Industry

Today’s chemical industry is characterized by fluctuating prices, process variability, and strict industry regulations. As a result of mergers and acquisitions, chemical companies have been among the first to encounter the challenges of managing a global organization, operating widely dispersed production plants with multiple languages, currencies, and regulations. Furthermore, chemical organizations are trying to balance growing economies of scale with the demands of personal customer relationships. There is an increased need to focus on delivering exactly what the customer requires while minimizing development, production, and transportation costs. Ultimately, chemical organizations are becoming more lean and agile.

Many new chemical products are quickly imitated, rapidly losing their unique market value and profitability. Time after time, competition drives down margins. As a result, innovation is critical to your prospects for success. In addition, many chemical operations face high variability in raw material inventory, forcing quick formula adaptations to maintain production quality within specifications. Finally, as end users and customers return performance details, customers require closer and closer collaboration with chemical operations to constantly improve products.

Customer Profile This customer is a Leading innovator of emulsions, polymers and specialty chemicals used as binders, coatings, adhesives and additives. Reilly & Associates implemented Oracle financials, purchasing, and OPM as well as developing an interface with the legacy maintenance planning system. R&A also provided remote DBA resources that allowed this client to support the Oracle system without hiring a new DBA after their DBA retired.

Customer Profile This customer specializes in hydrocarbons. The company's integrated manufacturing facility focuses on production and marketing of Olefins, Specialty Chemicals, and Fuel Products. Reilly & Associates was brought in to assist in the implementation of Oracle Process Manufacturing when the large multi-national consulting firm priming the job had need of more hands on OPM resources.

Customer Profile This Manufacturer of custom color concentrates, additive concentrates, and specialty dispersions for the plastics industry replaced two large legacy systems with Oracle. This is one of the world's largest custom color masterbatch producers, with customers in more than 25 countries and plants in the USA, Europe and Asia. Reilly & Associates assisted with the implementation of the full Oracle suite with OPM, Financials, Purchasing and Order Management.

Customer Profile This is a global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and commodity chemicals. Its operating companies manufacture basic products for a variety of global industries including chemicals, plastics, automotive, aviation, footwear, paints and coatings, construction, technology, agriculture, health care, textiles, detergent, personal care, furniture, appliances and packaging.

Customer Profile One of the largest paint and coatings company in the world. With a broad portfolio including protective coatings for wood, metal and plastic in the industrial markets. Interior and exterior decorative paints and aerosols, coatings and inks for containers, automotive and fleet refinish products, floor coatings, and specialty polymers, composites and colorants.

Customer Profile This customer manufactures fibers and hotmelt adhesives. These polymers are inter-mediate products, which are further developed into highly specialized products for use in innovative and technically demanding applications.

Customer Profile This Chemical company produces industrial and specialty chemicals such as chlorine, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, and chorine dioxide. A leading supplier of perchloroethylene, chloroform, methylene chloride and methyl chloroform

"Reilly & Associates has always provided Huntsman with the highest quality OPM people in the industry." Stacey Eicks, IT&S – Applications Manager Huntsman Petrochemical Corp.