Chemicals Metrics Shipping Warehousing 
Supply Chain Game Changer
AUGUST 21, 2022
A global chemical manufacturer recently had to replace ships that transported bulk materials to ports. These materials were then transferred to barges and rail cars for delivery, and finally to terminals where they were packaged into shipping containers for final delivery by rail.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 10, 2014
In figure 1, it is clear in process networks (industries of chemical, pharmaceutical, and food) that there is a significant different in capabilities when companies use B2B Networks versus EDI, Fax, email or spreadsheets. Today, it is rolling off the presses, as I write, and it will ship from the Amazon warehouses on December 15th.
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Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 5, 2019
When they built the project, they did not realize that they did not have access to daily data daily for their third-party warehouses and contract manufacturing locations. I was at a customer last week that shipped to distributors and did not know the site of customer facilities. 3) Granularity. Master data. The devil is in the details.
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 7, 2019
Most companies cannot get to data by customer on orders shipped incomplete to understand root cause analysis. In Figure 1, we show the aggregate trend of the chemical industry in an orbit chart format showing year-over-year results at the intersection of two metrics operating margin and inventory turns. inventory turns.
Elementum
MAY 1, 2018
Establish appropriate metrics that correspond with the steps outlined in your contingency plan. West Coast Port Strike Disrupts Shipping Lanes. The slowdown had a final price tag of $770 million for Washington business alone—the sum of net delinquent shipments and additional costs such as warehousing and truck idling fees.
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 13, 2015
Forty years ago as a chemical engineering student, I learned the tedious craft of chemical plant design. Getting good at factory design is a merit badge of sorts for the chemical engineer. Getting good at factory design is a merit badge of sorts for the chemical engineer. In this position, we designed real-world plants.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 18, 2016
Only beauty, chemical and Over-The-Counter (OTC) Drugs made progress in operating margins. Traditional supply chains ship cases, pallets and trucks; but not the EACH. With the dawn of eCommerce, companies must now ship the EACH. We how have the endless aisle with the need to ship the EACH. What is the EACH?
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