A chemical supplier should consider the following attributes: 1. Material sourcing is important, ensuring good visibility of trading exchanges to react to opportunities. Quality should not be compromised for lower costs. 2. Managing dynamic supply and demand requires attribute-based forecasting and understanding substitution rules for production planning. 3. Logistics involves coordinating bulk chemical transportation while following regulations for hazardous materials and maintaining transportation equipment. Supply chain management oversees the flow of goods from suppliers to customers.

1. Attributes of a Chemical Supplier
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2. What’s there in this ppt
This presentation is aimed to give you a rough idea
on how to be a good chemical supplier so that your
chemical business can be operated smoothly.
A brief idea on material sourcing, managing the
dynamic supply and demand, and the logistics
involved is discussed.

3. Material Sourcing
First question that may
arise when you are
thinking about trading
is from where to get
your goods from??
Or where to source the
chemicals from?

4. Material Sourcing
• Bulk Sourcing is mostly done and traded extensively on a 24 x 7
basis.
• Ensure material sourcing decisions are made with good
visibility of activities at trading exchanges. This would allow
appropriate reaction to be undertaken whenever a good trading
deal arrives.

5. One must be prudent when exploiting any cost-saving
opportunities as highly discounted raw materials might
compromised on quality.
A good chemical supplier would provide assistance of support
tools to evaluate usefulness of materials based on assay results
and plant capabilities.

6. Supply Demand Management
• Many of the customer orders are usually expressed in terms of “at least” or
“no more than” certain values of a given attribute.
• Therefore, demand forecasting that chemical suppliers undertake not only
have to be attribute-based, management of customer orders also require
understanding of the underlying principle of substitution as well as the
rules of acceptable product replacement in production planning.

7. Supply Chain and Logistics
• Due to the nature of their manufacturing process, many chemical
manufactures have to coordinate inbound and outbound transportation of
chemical products in bulk.
• Ensure that the transporting hazardous materials follows the regulatory
policies such as environmental, safety and security concerns. Also, make
sure the transportation tools are subjected to maintenance requirements
such as those pertinent to mandatory tank cleaning.

8. Supply Chain
Management is the
overall management
of the way in which
goods and services
flow from supplier to
manufacturer to
wholesaler to retailer
to consumer and so
on.

9. It’s a
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