The Future of Supply Chain Management for Chemical Companies

Abhinav Anand | July 8, 2022 | 1314 views | Read Time : 02:00 min

The Future
Individual consumers expect tailored products and services. Color, size, quantity, payment method, and delivery channel options abound. The chemical sector is also now following this suit of action. The global chemicals supply chain has grown steadily for three decades. Chemical businesses are improving their supply chain capabilities to handle complexity and meet client demands. This includes implementing advanced data-driven and cloud-based technologies that enable faster, more flexible, and tailored customer interactions.

Areas of innovation for chemical companies


Living Segmentation

Living segmentation can help chemical businesses better serve clients and satisfy their expectations. This entails adapting supply chain capabilities to each customer's needs.


Asset-light Network

An asset-light network involves developing an ecosystem of partners to add capabilities and value to your supply chain beyond standard co-manufacturing, co-packing, and third-party or last-mile logistics providers. In addition, it should include technology partners that help chemical businesses innovate and be adaptable.

Data and Applied Intelligence

Improving speed, agility, and efficiency in global supply chains demands comprehensive visibility and the correct information. Data provides visibility and insights. The key to providing excellent customer service is gathering the appropriate data and using it strategically to get important insight. The industry generates a ton of data, which is excellent news.

In response to last year's supply chain delays, corporations are building supply chains with geographically spread shipping/supplier choices. Real-time visibility and enhanced analytics can be used to track delays by providing revised ETAs and analyzing downstream implications. Data-driven insights can alert organizations of a delay almost immediately and help them acquire raw materials from another supplier to reduce the domino impact downstream. Chemical businesses must rethink their supply chains to implement living segmentation, asset-light networks, data, and AI.

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Zydus Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. is located in Pennington, NJ, and is the U.S. division of Cadila Healthcare. Since our first commercial launch in August of 2005, we have grown steadily and are now one of the top 10 U.S. generic companies in total prescriptions dispensed. We are also proud to note that since 2005 we have been recognized annually by IMS Health as one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. Zydus is focused on providing outstanding customer service, along with high-quality, affordable generic products to our customers and their patients. Zydus is a vertically integrated generic pharmaceutical company. We manufacture over 50% of our product’s active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and in fact take it a few steps further by even manufacturing our own bottles. This allows us to ensure and maintain our excellent supply record to our customers. We have also already completed 2D bar-coding on all of our manufactured products to meet the future pedigree requ

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