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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

Unfortunately, The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard-bearer for classifying businesses and sectors. As an example, Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325) encompasses a variety of chemical manufacturing codes including petrochemicals (3251), but none for biobased chemicals. Annual reporting.

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Perspectives on the Global Trade Environment: A Panel Discussion

NC State SCRC

The goal is to create redundant sources based on supplier-specific and country-of-origin, to ensure that each product category has redundancy as a form of insurance on the supply chain. Andrew Partis shared his views from ThermoFisher, a global contrat manufacturer for the pharmaceutical industry.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

This study may be useful to all analytics-driven managers because studies comparing companies against each other often fail to find suitable metrics that provide an apple-to-apple comparison. True, 10-K ’s andother standard financial filings provide metrics that are often used when comparing performance between companies. So what happened?