Miebach Consulting has launched an international survey in order to evaluate the most relevant challenges and trends for supply chain organizations within the pharma & life sciences industry.
The International Airport Transport Association (IATA) recently awarded the Mumbai and Hyderabad branches of Dachser India with the prestigious CEIV Pharma certification, recognizing the company for its excellence in transporting life science and healthcare (LSH) products.
Over the last few years there has been a lot of talk about digitalization, also in chemical distribution.
Digitalization is a very important topic not only in the chemical industry as a whole, but also in chemical distribution.
Growing complexity, with a strong focus on digitalization and connectivity as megatrends for the whole industry, dictates the business world.
The port of Antwerp is not only an important international hub for the chemical and petrochemical industry, especially for these industries it is a significant production site too.
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.
