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High-performance business through a differentiated supply chain: How chemical companies can achieve logistics breakthroughs
Low profitability is a worn out story for key players in the US chemical industry. In recent years, chemical companies removed plant bottlenecks, added the latest process control technologies and found ways to squeeze out manufacturing costs. Chemical companies' supply chain costs are second only to manufacturing and conversion costs-the areas historically given the greatest amount of attention. Yet focusing on those areas is not enough to improve the overall financial performance of most chemical companies-but improving the supply chain may.
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