Helping organizations protect margins in a squeezed market by sharpening pricing, costing, and the operational discipline to back it up.
GET IN TOUCHChemical companies operate in one of the more squeezed corners of the economy. Volatile oil and gas feedstocks are on one side, and pricing pressure from large customers is on the other. A hundredth of a percent can be the difference between a strong year and a difficult one, so slow systems and "mostly" right data add up quickly.
Most firms sell a complex "transformation strategy." Honestly, that's not really what's needed. What helps is the tactical discipline to push back on margin pressure, and that's where we focus.
You can't control the price of oil, but you can control the cost of complexity. We align planning and financial systems so the organization can pivot faster than the market moves.
Operators are squeezing companies for every penny. We fix the gap between field delivery and the final invoice to ensure organizations are paid for every drop.
Customization kills margins when it isn't costed correctly. We bring discipline to pricing and production data, so it's easy to see which products are making money and which are just taking up space.
Protecting margin in chemicals is a hundred small moves done consistently.
We get into the price books, sharpen costing models so they reflect the current market, and address operational leaks and inefficient processes that eat into the bottom line. We put AI to work in practical ways to predict demand, support leaner operations, and offer real-time visibility that makes “lean and mean” something achievable.
Whether it's helping Sales understand the true cost of a discount or migrating the supply chain to a system that actually works, we’ll be on the floor, in the warehouse, and in the rooms where the real decisions happen.
The end result is more than modernized technology. It's better data in the hands of decision-makers.
Client Situation: A global chemical company lacked visibility into how raw material, labor, and energy costs were impacting margins. Costing was managed manually across siloed spreadsheets, a recently deployed business planning and consolidation system wasn't configured for the detail leadership needed, and after spinning off from a larger parent, the company needed fit-for-purpose processes to forecast demand, model commodity price impacts, and plan production as a stand-alone business.
Our Response: Trenegy supported the company through finance and planning transformation spanning costing, forecasting, and S&OP. We helped redesign the business planning and consolidation system's data models to capture and report costs at the product level. We also supported the company through implementation of an enterprise forecasting system to automate integration of supply, costing, and pricing forecasts. Additionally, we aided in the rollout of a new S&OP system and process integrated with the ERP to give sales, operations, and finance a single source for demand planning and pricing.
Results:
Client Situation: A rapidly growing E&P company made a large acquisition to expand their portfolio and decided to integrate the systems
Our Response: The CIO approached Trenegy to assist with the integration.
Results: With Trenegy's help, the company successfully integrated all systems required to manage the newly acquired properties.
Client Situation: A global chemical company was faced with significant turnover, siloed departments, and manual processes that were creating accounting errors, billing backlogs, and rising DSO. Existing systems were underutilized, management reporting lived in spreadsheets, and back-office functions were fragmented across the business. To support rapid revenue growth, the organization needed to right-size its processes, controls, and technology and stand up a shared services model to support a recent acquisition.
Our Response: Trenegy supported the design of a shared services model spanning core back-office functions, along with a performance management framework built on guiding principles and department-level KPIs. Trenegy also helped redesign core business processes, right-sized controls and roles, and targeted ERP enhancements that extended the life of the existing platform and avoided a costly replacement.
Results:
Client Situation: A rapidly growing E&P company made a large acquisition to expand their portfolio and decided to integrate the systems and processes
Our Response: The CIO approached Trenegy to assist with the integration.
Results: With Trenegy's help, the company successfully integrated all systems required to manage the newly acquired properties.
Trenegy is a non-traditional consulting firm based in Houston, Texas.