Chemical service portfolio

Standard products, also known as catalog products or building blocks, pop up first, if one browses through the Websites or brochures of fine-chemical companies. Except for laboratory chemical suppliers (see Section 2.3), they play only a minor role in the product/service portfolio. Contrary to exclusives, standard products derive from a reaction rather than an action approach ... 

For scientists with a basic chemical education, the contributors provide, in a simple and understandable but still comprehensive manner, descriptions of the most important methods used in routine molecular biology and immunology and give selected examples of important applications of these techniques in food analysis. The book is aimed at students and professional food chemists as well as quality assurance managers and can serve as guidance in understanding the techniques as well as implementing them in a laboratory to expand and complete a service portfolio. 

Since the primary role of sites in specialty chemicals production networks is to provide infrastructure services for the different plants they host, the design principle underlying specialty chemicals production networks has to be analyzed from the value chain perspective. Both market area plant and product plant segmentations can be found (cf. Schmenner 1982a, p. 13). Often, in case of relatively small production volumes, each plant produces a segment of the value chain s product portfolio for global... 

The portfolio of services performed by chemical distributors is an important opportunity for competitive differentiation. Specifically, these services include ... 

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