Diversified chemistry manufacturer integrating OT/IT data and scaling SAP operations
AdvanSix operates five integrated U.S. manufacturing facilities producing nylon, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients for construction, agriculture, and specialty applications. The stack reveals a company mid-transformation: heavy SAP investment (both S/4HANA adoption and DataSphere data layer), Azure/AWS cloud infrastructure, and emerging ML platform work — while simultaneously grappling with OT/IT integration and data governance. Active hiring spans manufacturing, operations, and engineering, signaling an operational scale-up alongside digital modernization.
Notable leadership hires: Finance Director
AdvanSix is a public diversified chemistry company founded in 2016, headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey. The company manufactures essential materials across nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, supplying industries including building and construction, fertilizers, agrochemicals, plastics, solvents, and coatings. Operations span five U.S.-based manufacturing sites that serve as nodes in global supply chains. The business is currently executing major enterprise system upgrades (SAP S/4HANA) alongside broader digital transformation in finance, logistics, and manufacturing operations. The organization employs 1,001–5,000 people.
Core systems: SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, SAP DataSphere. Analytics: Power BI, PySpark, SQL, Minitab, JMP. Operations: PLC, Distributed Control Systems, LIMS. Cloud: Azure, AWS, GCP. Also uses Workiva, AuditBoard, GitHub Copilot.
Major initiatives: unified data layer, ML platform services, SAP S/4HANA implementation for finance and order-to-cash, digital strategy for Hopewell plant and logistics, and master scheduling. Also addressing manufacturing process optimization and OT/IT data integration.
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