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SAP Workflow Automation for Chemicals, Energy and Pharma

Govern the product, supplier, and asset data that regulators and auditors examine, and control the provisions and settlements raised at each financial close. Promenta reduces compliance risk and keeps the evidence with the record.
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  • For SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC

Data and Approval Risks in Process and Regulated Industries

In chemicals, energy and pharmaceuticals, the SAP record is inspected and reported. Product data carries regulatory meaning, capital assets carry decades of cost, and every approval must hold up before regulators, external auditors, and joint venture partners.

Hazard and Regulatory Fields

Hazard and Regulatory Fields

Material records carry hazard classification, packaging, and transport data that regulators inspect, and several specialist teams maintain them.

Validated System Change Control

Validated System Change Control

Every change in a validated SAP landscape requires documented approval, and manual routing slows qualification and release activity.

Capital Project Accounting

Capital Project Accounting

Plant, pipeline, and facility projects generate settlement, capitalisation, and transfer entries that arrive late in the financial close.

Provision & Revaluation Journals

Provision & Revaluation Journals

Decommissioning provisions, inventory revaluations, and customer rebate accruals are recalculated every period and posted through manually prepared journals.

Contract Manufacturer Onboarding

Contract Manufacturer Onboarding

Toll manufacturers, distributors, and logistics partners are continually added, each with qualification documents and banking data to verify.

Joint Venture Recharges

Joint Venture Recharges

Joint ventures and shared assets create recharges and allocations that partners and auditors expect to see evidenced.
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How Promenta Works

Specialist input, approval, and evidence stay together on a single request until SAP is updated.
  • Route by plant, company code, or storage location
  • Collect input from regulatory, quality, and finance teams
  • Check requests against live SAP settings before approval
  • Keep certificates and calculations attached to the request
  • Record each approver and action as it happens
  • Release to SAP once every approval is complete

Promenta Solutions for Process and Regulated Operations

Material Master Governance

Govern product records carrying hazard, packaging, and transport data, with specialists completing the fields they own.
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SAP Journal Entry Management

Route provision, revaluation, and settlement journals with their calculations attached, and validate every line before approval.
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Asset Governance

Capitalise, transfer, and retire plant and project assets under approval, with settlement evidence kept on record.
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Vendor Master Governance

Approve toll manufacturers, contractors, and distributors, with qualification documents and banking details reviewed before record creation.
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Cost Center Governance

Govern site, project, and joint venture cost centers so allocations and recharges follow the agreed structure.
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Customer Master Governance

Set up distributor, wholesaler, and hospital customer accounts by sales organisation, under finance and commercial approval.
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Why Process and Regulated Enterprises Choose Promenta

Native SAP Deployment

Promenta is installed into your SAP system and runs there, so product, supplier, and financial data stays inside the landscape you already control. There are no external servers, middleware, or replicated data, which keeps security review, qualification, and audit scope on one system.

Configured to Site and Function

Approval rules follow your sites, entities, and specialist functions, so regulatory, quality, finance, and procurement each review what they are accountable for. Administrators manage approver groups through an audited SAP transaction, with no custom code to maintain.

Proven in Inspected Industries

Promenta is deployed at global chemical, pharmaceutical, and industrial enterprises including BASF, Arkema, Novartis, and Teva, where inspection and external audit are routine. Licensing is one annual enterprise-wide subscription covering software and maintenance.

Who Uses Promenta in Chemicals, Energy and Pharma

01

Site Finance Teams

Post provisions and settlements with the calculation held on record.
02

Regulatory and Quality

Review product data fields without needing direct SAP maintenance access.
03

Procurement

Approve contractor and toll manufacturer records with qualification documents attached.
04

Project and Capital Finance

Follow asset requests from creation through to settlement and capitalisation.
05

Internal Audit and Compliance

Sample approvals for any period directly from your SAP system.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Promenta deploys and runs inside SAP, so there is no separate platform, server, or interface to qualify alongside it. Approval configuration is held in SAP and changed through an audited transaction, and customers apply their own validation and change control procedures to it in the same way as other SAP changes.
Regulatory, quality, supply chain, and finance teams each complete and approve the fields they are accountable for within one request. Promenta works with a fully validated virtual record, and SAP is updated only when every entry and approval is in place, so partial product records do not reach downstream processes.
Yes. Asset records can be created, changed, capitalised, and retired through an approval process, with supporting evidence attached to the request. Settlement and transfer journals run through the same platform, so the accounting entry and the asset record follow one control standard.
Material, vendor, customer, general ledger (GL) account, cost center, asset and bank account records, plus the unified Business Partner record in SAP S/4HANA. Manual journal entries are governed on the same platform, under the same approval and reporting model.
Yes. Promenta is certified for SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA, and supports S/4HANA on-premise and RISE with SAP Private Edition. Workflow configuration, approval routing, and audit history carry across an ECC to S/4HANA migration, so controls do not need to be re-implemented after go-live.

Run Your Most Inspected SAP Process Past a Specialist

Choose the record that draws the most questions from regulators, auditors or joint venture partners. In 30 minutes, a Promenta SAP specialist will show how that request is raised, reviewed, and evidenced inside SAP.

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