Chemondis is the B2B online marketplace for the chemical industry, connecting buyers and suppliers and helping them to benefit from the digitalization of both sales and purchasing processes, including research, negotiations and more.
As digital transformation ensues to disrupt, transform and re-shape industries – the imperative to change for process industries is clear and very present.
Growing complexity, with a strong focus on digitalization and connectivity as megatrends for the whole industry, dictates the business world.
The traditional business model of chemical distributors is currently fundamentally challenged on one side by digitally enabled activities from principals, logistics providers, customers, start-ups, larger chemical distributors or combinations of smaller players, who try their own online channels, and on the other side by general e-retailers like Alibaba or Amazon, who explore to enter also into chemical & material categories.
Times are changing, and we are changing in them. An old saying that goes back to Ovid - but still true today. The business world has become more VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) than ever.
In a joint recent study of 2017 the VDMA Large Industrial Plant Manufacturers' Group and MaexPartners analyzed the potential of Industry 4.0 for large industrial plant manufacturing.
