Industrial value chain

The value chain network includes the aspect of aggregating multiple customers and suppliers to logical location(s), which is an important aspect in industry value chain networks operating with hundreds and thousands of customers and individual sites. 

Values in the industry value chain are subjects of financial accounting, profit and cost controlling as well as value-based management research. Out of the scope is the value chain support function of corporate finance concerned with getting required or investing excess financial resources in financial markets, which is not a core activity in the industry value chain and out of the scope in this work. The integration of value chain management with corporate finance is a potential area for further research. 

Fig. 26 Chemical products in the chemical industry value chain...

The specific value chain network is characterized in the following based on a value chain typology. Several authors developed typologies and characteristics to classify industrial value chains with focus on supply chain and production (Loos 1997 Delfmann/Albers 2000 Zeier 2002 Schaub/Zeier 2003, Meyr/Stadtler 2004). 

While production and distribution are intensively investigated due to the complexity and cost-importance of capital-intensive production assets in the chemical industry, procurement and demand management in the chemical industry value chain is less investigated. 

Research -Development Production =>Marketing Sales Distribution Figure 1 Pharmaceutical industry value chain. 

In comparison to industrial utiUzation chains for fossil raw materials chains for renewable raw materials are differing manifold. In the foUowing, main determining factors leading to different processing steps and special requirements concerning the logistics of renewable raw material-based industrial value chains are discussed. These comprise the natural environment in which it is operated, the characteristics of the renewable raw materials as well as the involved actors and stakeholders which are crucial for the mobihzation of the renewable raw materials. 

Owing to these developments, microbial PHA has formed an industrial value chain ranging from industrial fermentation, materials, medicine, and biofuels to fine chemicals. More and more applications are the subject of intensive research. Globally, more than 20 companies have been established to commercialize these developments (Chen 2009a Fig. 1). 

Fig. 7 PHA has been developed into an industrial value chain...

It is now obvious that PHA s industrial value chain will soon generate revenues [3] (Fig. 8) and that uses of PHA will provide great benefits to our society. 

Fig. 8 PHAs are developing into a bio- and material industrial value chain with applications ranging from industrial microbiology, plastics, biofuels, medicines and fine chemicals [3]...

Nowadays there are two of the hottest trends now among CSR executives are supply chains and collaboration among companies on sustainability. The latest example for these two comes from the apparel industry, where the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), a trade association representing more than a third of the global apparel and footwear market, unveiled the Higg Index, a new tool for sustainabihty measurement across the industry value chain. 

Figure 16.9 Polyhydroxyalkanoates and its related technologies are forming an industrial value chain ranging from fermentation, materials, fine chemicals, energy to medical fields. ...

Cecere, L (2009). Want to be demand driven 15 tactics to consider Industry value chain strategies (pp. 1-6). Boston, USA AMR Research hic. 

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