| COMPANY: | SABIC Polyolefine GmbH |
| HEADQUARTERS: | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| SIZE OF COMPANY: | 100-499 employees |
| INDUSTRY: | Chemicals |
| PRIMARY PRODUCT LINE: | Plastics, chemicals, performance/innovative plastics, random polypropylene, homo polypropylene, high-density polyethylene, low-density polyethylene linear, low-density polyethylene |
| NAME OF PROJECT: | Capacity Manager and Margin Optimization via Raw Material Feed Allocation |
| PROJECT OBJECTIVE: | To implement a predictive intelligence application to provide economic insight that allows operations to be proactive and make financial decisions in real time in order to maximize use of propylene feedstock |
| TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED: | VantagePoint EMI and Capacity Manager from Rockwell Automation |
| ACCOMPLISHMENTS/ROI: | Improved individual product margins for all three reactors; planning and supply chain departments able to understand consumption of propylene and make more informed purchasing, allocation, customer delivery, and profit decisions; ROI in less than six months |