Chemicals
Manage Industry Challenges
The global chemical industry is facing challenging times, balancing the commoditization of produced products with regional growth opportunities with a massive disruption in supplied product sourcing. X/Celerant has the hands-on experience to help make the changes in a sustainable way.
- Sustainability: Demand for increased organic production capacity and yield optimization while reducing unit costs and emissions.
- Disruption of historic supply networks: Cost escalation and availability/ sourcing of raw materials; infrastructure programs for new facilities, energy and raw material feedstocks.
- Cost optimization: declining margins due to the globalization and commoditization of manufactured products.
- Opportunistic growth: Overall moderate growth projections with challenges in specialty chemical markets.
- Deal realization: continued M&A activity with renewed focus for subsequent operational readiness and organizational integration.
- Digitization: Automation and Industry 4.0 technical efforts coupled with retraining and redeployment needs of the workforce.
Leverage Proven Solutions
- Operations improvement: production capacity enhancement, product quality & yield improvement, reliability & maintenance optimization, energy usage/ cost improvement
- Supply chain optimization: sales and operations planning (S&OP) improvement, procurement and supplier development, warehousing and logistics streamlining and customer service
- People and organizations: organizational (re)design, people and leadership development, contractor management
- Capital management: Capital project planning and optimization, construction planning and management, turnaround/ shutdown planning and management, inventory optimization
- Commercial optimization: innovation/ new product development, sales and marketing optimization, M&A operational due diligence
- Overhead cost management: SG&A cost optimization
- Digital: Digitalization and data analytics, reporting and business management systems
- Safety and the environment: HS&E practices, people safety, audits and assessments
