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Diversified chemicals, agricultural solutions, materials, industrial and care products · Ludwigshafen, Germany · basf.com
BASF is a global chemicals company with a broad portfolio across core businesses and standalone businesses. Its current strategy centers on profitable growth, portfolio focus, simplification, cost discipline, more use of digital tools, AI, targeted sustainability investments. Public disclosures also show continued restructuring of operating models and service units, with a stronger emphasis on core businesses and standardized processes.
The company is concentrating on Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Nutrition & Care as core businesses and is carving out standalone businesses.
BASF says its core businesses comprise four segments and that it is focusing on strengthening and growing them in the next phase of Winning Ways.
Management is linking strategy to lower fixed costs, simpler organization, more standardized business processes.
BASF said CoreShift aims for up to 20% lower net cash fixed costs by 2029 and cites simplified operations, harmonized processes, standardized IT solutions.
The company is explicitly pushing AI adoption across work functions and targeting value cases with pilots.
The strategy pages say BASF is harnessing digitalization and AI for productivity and innovation, with use cases in sales, marketing, R&D, production, procurement, services.
BASF continues to frame product, production, portfolio changes around customer decarbonization and resource efficiency.
The company says it wants to enable customers’ green transformation and is prioritizing products with sustainability attributes and lower carbon footprints.
BASF shows a pragmatic technology posture, centered on standardized enterprise systems, cloud-based planning tools, broader AI adoption tied to business process simplification.
Public disclosures point to cloud-based supply chain software, analysis platforms, dedicated ERP standardization, but vendor detail is selective.
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Evidence confidence 89/100. Generated 2026-07-03 from public sources.