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- Destroying the planet one iPhone at a time
- Your shiny new iPhone is killing the planet... and that new laptop too... and your server... along with every other piece of electronics you own. Here's a look at the environmental impact of how electronics are made and what to do about it. by John Sheesley
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Chemicals, Vendor, Electronics, Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Reichhold Chemicals: Business and IT Reengineering With SAP R/3
- Reichhold Chemicals is a billion dollar specialty chemical company that manufactures synthetic resins, emulsions and adhesives. Reichhold Chemicals realized it needed to increase its flexibility to quickly adjust to market demands. More importantly, the company required immediate access to accurate and comprehensive information to better respond to customer needs. Reichhold...
- Tags: Chemicals, Information Technology, SAP R/3, SAP AG, Reichhold Chemicals, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Ampac Fine Chemicals Improves Manufacturing Efficiency and Automates Core Financial Processes
- Ampac Fine Chemicals AFC, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Pacific Corporation, manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients and registered intermediates. The company wanted to implement a comprehensive, scalable application infrastructure that easily integrates with third party solutions and improve financial management while providing support for process manufacturing. The challenge was to...
- Tags: Chemicals, Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Management, Manufacturing, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies
- Ciba Specialty Chemicals Gains Flexibility Plus Savings With Network Appliance
- Ciba Specialty Chemicals is a leading global company dedicated to producing high-value effects for its customers' products. The core challenge was to implement a storage architecture that eliminates the backup and recovery, capacity utilization, and manageability issues associated with an existing DAS environment. The solution to this was achieved by...
- Tags: Chemicals, Network Appliance Inc., NetApp, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Merichem Chemicals and Refinery Services, LLC Automates Business Process and Reduces Costs
- From its beginnings more than 55 years ago in the specialty chemical business, Merichem Company has grown to be a world leader in innovative process technology as well as the production of high specification chemical intermediates. The challenge was to create an IT infrastructure that can support present operations and...
- Tags: Business Process, Chemicals, Oracle Corp., Decision-making, Operational Planning, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Management
- Case studies
- Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products Revamps System for Worldwide Uniformity and Growth
- Founded in 1971 as a fine chemical manufacturer, Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products, a division of Spectrum Chemical Mfg. Corp., has grown into a customer-focused global supplier of high quality chemicals, laboratory supplies, and equipment. The company wanted to replace antiquated, homegrown system that no longer offered the flexibility and...
- Tags: Chemicals, Oracle Corp., ERP, Spectrum, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software
- Case studies
- Chemicals Distributor Enhances Customer Service and Sales With CRM Solution
- A-Gas Australia, a blender, repacker, and distributor of specialty gases and chemicals, including refrigerants, foam-blowing agents, aerosol propellants, and solvents, needed a better way to manage its customer relationships. The company, which has 25 employees, deployed Microsoft CRM now part of Microsoft Dynamics running on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003...
- Tags: Customer Service, Chemicals, CRM Solution, Microsoft Corp., Sales, CRM, Financial Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- PCAS Streamlines Business Processes and Reduces Costs
- PCAS produces and markets fine chemicals and specialty chemicals. The company wanted to consolidate management systems from various business units and acquisitions into a single, integrated solution to host key business processes. The challenge was to develop a flexible, scalable, and highly functional solution to improve efficiency and prepare for...
- Tags: Business Process, Chemicals, Oracle Corp., PCAS, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Case studies
- The Total Customer Experience: Best Practices of Cisco, Lands' End, and Air Products and Chemicals
- Regardless of whether we are business customers or independent consumers, we desire "one version of the truth." Learn how best-practice organizations provide one version of truth to employees and customers, thus creating a singular customer experience. This report offers deep insights into a variety of factors that impact and contribute...
- Tags: Chemicals, APQC, Experience, Cisco Systems Inc., Best Practice
- White papers
- Air Products and Chemicals Uses Visual Tools to Deliver Innovative Solutions Quickly
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. delivers a broad range of products to diverse industries; from glass coatings for the architectural industry, to hydrogen for energy production, to gases for semiconductor chip making. The challenge was to efficiently harness Air Products' intellectual capital to create market-leading products. Air Products and Chemicals...
- Tags: Chemicals, Tool, Mindjet, Strategy, Semiconductors, Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Twenty Sites Four Countries - Enterprise-Wide Re-Engineering Across All Operations With SAP R3 for Millennium Chemicals
- Millennium Chemicals Inc. MCH is a major international company with leading market positions in a broad range of commodity, industrial, performance and specialty chemicals. MCH had inherited disparate IT systems from several company acquisitions. In order to integrate company operations across borders, Millennium Chemicals Inc. decided to implement the ERP...
- Tags: Chemicals, Capgemini, SAP AG, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Going Global: OnDemand Personal Navigator Helps Millennium Chemicals Pull It All Together
- Millennium Chemicals is the world's second-largest producer of titanium dioxide. In a 1999 effort to pull together its global organization, Millennium began implementing SAP 3.1h. With plants all over the world, Millennium needed a unified business process. Since Millennium was close to completing a global SAP implementation for more than...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Chemicals, On-demand, Netscape Navigator, SAP AG, Training, Millennium Chemicals, Workforce Management, Operational Planning, Human Resources, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Global Knowledge's Self-Paced e-Learning and OnDemand Provides Training Solution to Global Healthcare and Chemicals Group
- GHCG is represented by some 350 companies employing 117,000 people on 5 continents. GHCG was looking for a solution to provide fast, quality, cost-effective training for its employees, essentially on its in-house IT systems - MS Office and Lotus Notes. GHCG contacted Trainers IT Services Limited, a Global Knowledge reseller...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Chemicals, On-demand, Health Care, Training, GHCG, It Services, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
- Case studies
- Chemicals Company Boosts Performance With New SAP Solution
- Chemicals company Condat provides manufacturing chemicals to companies around the world. Condat wanted to upgrade its existing SAP business management solution to SAP ECC 6.0. It also wanted to maximise IT performance across the company and ensure 24/7 systems availability. As a solution Dell completed the SAP migration and planned...
- Tags: Chemicals, Dell Computer Corp., Performance, SAP AG, Engineering, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2008-01-23
- Mobile Solution Helps Specialty Chemicals and Materials Company Improve Customer Focus
- Global specialty chemicals and materials company Cytec Industries develops, manufactures, and sells value-added products to markets such as aerospace, adhesives, automotive and industrial coatings, inks, and plastics. In April 2006, the company began searching for a mobile solution that would give its global work force around-the-clock access to Microsoft Office...
- Tags: Chemicals, Solution, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Time Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Online Communications, Software, Productivity
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Warwick International Builds Growing Business on Scalable, Flexible, Best-in-Class Functionality
- Leading European specialty chemicals provider Warwick International Limited manufactures and markets chemicals for a diverse range of industrial applications. Warwick International wanted to leverage best manufacturing technology advances to reinforce lean planning, scheduling, and order management processes and optimize the value of human capital through training and career management while...
- Tags: Chemicals, Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Order Management, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Chemicals Firm Lowers Costs and Boosts Collaboration With Portal Technology
- Toray Saehan produces and distributes a variety of chemical products for global customers. To improve its operational efficiency and inter-department work processes, the company selected a Microsoft .NET based portal technology featuring real-time messaging, knowledge sharing and collaboration for the whole organization. The enhanced interconnectivity and expandability has reduced overlapping...
- Tags: Chemicals, Collaboration, Knowledge, Microsoft Corp., Toray Saehan, Portals, Web Technology, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- Biofuels and Specialty Chemicals Firm Implements Project in Record Time With SAP Best Practices
- FutureFuel Chemical Company was in a very unusual situation when a chemicals industry giant sold it in late 2006. For a while, FutureFuel continued to use its former parent company's SAP software installation, but that was hardly a long-term solution. Therefore, to achieve independence, FutureFuel set several high priorities. It...
- Tags: Chemicals, SAP AG, Best Practice
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- SAP XMII Helps Chemicals Company Integrate Processes Across the Board
- NOVA Chemicals Corporation NOVA is moving toward increasing integration between the plant floor and executive suite. This move provides visibility for operators and manufacturing vice presidents alike by supplying role-based access to real-time information ? enabling them to adapt to operations, which maximizes corporate profitability. NOVA took one step closer...
- Tags: Chemicals, Board, SAP AG, Engineering, Corporate Governance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Desktops, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Low-Toxic Cleaning Recipes For Your Home! (zip)
- Low-Toxic Cleaning Recipes is a compilation of 3 of the most used cleaners, and recipes for low-toxic versions. A typical home or office has dozens of cleaning and personal care products that contain harmful chemicals. Please take a moment and count the number of cleaners under your kitchen and bathroom...
- Tags: Chemicals, Cleaner, Indiana, Low-Toxic Cleaning Recipes
- Software downloads 2007-07-03
