Purchasing chemicals is a complicated exercise involving thousands of products,hundreds of primary suppliers,myriad processors and distributors;numerous environmental concerns and regulatory restrictions;and various end-user logistics,workplace health and safety,warehousing and manufacturing operations.That's why it took an 18-member sourcing team at Rockwell Collins more than a year to complete an internal audit of chemical-buying programs-and to determine a way to get the procurement and internal delivery jobs done better,and cheaper.
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