30.04.2018
- The European Association of Chemical Distributors (FECC) picked the tagline “Shaping successful partnerships for the new market demands” as the theme for this year’s annual...
26.04.2018
- In many sectors of industry, logistics has become an economic key factor beyond pure cost. This is particularly true in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, and it is one of...
The traditional business model of chemical distributors is currently fundamentally challenged on one side by digitally enabled activities from principals, logistics...
26.04.2018
- Business Process Management (BPM) makes short work of digital transformation, according to a joint study by BearingPoint & BPM&O. The BPM Study 2017 (published in Oct. 2017)...
26.04.2018
- Back in 2006, Clive Humby at Tesco said the almost prophetic words “data is the new oil.” Time proved him right. Now, 12 years later, the top 5 companies in the world in terms of...
26.04.2018
- Everywhere in business today, customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders or owners, consultants and other pundits, and also the media seem to only have one topic. It is...
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...
10.11.2017
- A month ago, at the European Petrochemical Association’s Annual Meeting held in Berlin, Germany, Jim Fitterling, president & chief operating officer of the Dow Chemical Company...