Chemicals & Energy

First Solar: Balancing Cost and Customer Service

December 9, 2013

Mark Zeni, Director of Fulfillment, First Solar

NCR: An Old-Line Company Never Stops Changing

December 9, 2013

Gordon Pearson, Global Inventory Director, NCR

Why the U.S. Transportation System Is Falling Apart

December 6, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

What's eating the American transportation infrastructure? Corrosion.

How Contract Manufacturers Are Expanding Their Services

December 6, 2013

Arpad Hevizi, VP, Supply Chain Solutions, Celestica

How First Solar Keeps Pace With Demand

December 6, 2013

Jennifer Bell, Systems Analyst, First Solar

Applied Materials: Invisible, But Everywhere

December 6, 2013

Jim White, VP Central Operations/CPO, Applied Materials

PTC Issues Tool for Conflict Minerals Compliance

December 5, 2013

PTC

PTC has developed a tool for complying with new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules on identifying the presence of conflict minerals in high-tech products and supply chains.

Maersk Looks to LNG as New Energy Source

December 2, 2013

Shipping Watch

LNG could become the future fuel for Maersk Line. The group is currently negotiating the possibility of using the liquid natural gas with Russian energy giant Gazprom.

Chain Restaurants Association Urges End to Ethanol Mandate

November 20, 2013

National Council of Chain Restaurants

The National Council of Chain Restaurants issued the following statement from NCCR Executive Director Rob Green on the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volume mandate for 2014: The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed adjustment to the Renewable Fuel Standard volume mandate is an implicit recognition that the ethanol mandate is out of sync and out of touch with current market realities. With this proposal, the EPA is essentially saying, 'if you like your 15-billion-gallon corn ethanol mandate, you can keep it.'

Furniture Supply Chain Begins to Think Green

November 18, 2013

Mbiz

Suppliers to the office furniture industry better start paying close attention to the materials going into the pieces they're making. That's because the sustainability programs being implemented by the office furniture OEMs in West Michigan and beyond are increasingly demanding the suppliers provide more detailed information about the chemicals that go into their products.

Chemicals & Energy

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the chemicals and energy industries. Learn how chemical and energy companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.