Agility Apply Unrivalled Knowledge & Experience of Chemical Industry Supply Chains to ‘Sniff out Savings’ to Meet the Challenge of Recessionary Trading Conditions

When working for a multinational oil company, Agility was credited with ...

“… being able to identify improvement projects to create greater efficiency and deliver significant cost savings. In addition we used Agility’s ‘cost-to-serve model’ as a practical tool to deliver real visibility to a complex supply chain to assist in our optimisation and procurement activities.”

Whilst global markets fluctuate widely and broader economic conditions give cause for concern, Agility is confident now more than ever that we can add value to chemical industry supply chains by using our experience and expertise to ‘sniff out’ efficiency improvements and cost saving. Agility have developed a ‘Rapid Supply Chain Assessment’ methodology to sample the performance at critical points across chemical industry supply chains. Performance is measured in terms of operational productivity and utilisation along with cost and service metrics. Having mapped the supply chain, key performance measures are benchmarked to highlight underperforming components of the network.

Typically Agility find opportunities across one or a combination of four areas:

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Agility’s chemical specialty business is a global leader in physical chemical logistics service provision and management.

After engaging with Agility a global acrylics business cited …

“We have enjoyed and have benefited from a long term partnership with Agility… Agility’s supply chain skill and knowledge fits well with the needs of our business and continues to deliver significant savings through the analysis and leverage of the logistics market place.

With an unrivalled pedigree, having been formed as a management buyout of the global logistics group of ICI, we are uniquely placed to understand the supply chain needs of chemical manufacturing companies. Many of our experienced employees are former chemical engineers, plant managers, HSSE practitioners as well as supply chain and chemical distribution experts.

As a specialty business we enjoy a global presence afforded by our integration within the publicly traded Agility group. You may like to find out more about Agility Global Integrated Logistics division by visiting our website.

Agility’s chemical sector service provision is characterised by outcome orientated objectives. Positive outcomes are achieved from a synthesis of physical logistics supported by a leveraged procurement position, expertise and experience in operations management together with a subject matter expert approach to supply chain improvement strategies from performance benchmarking to full supply chain optimisation using sophisticated modelling tools.

With more than 80 chemical customers worldwide, Agility have many testimonials to demonstrate how we deliver value strategically and tactically across our customers’ supply chains. A European specialty chemical and hydrocarbon company had this to say...

“Agility have changed the paradigms and thinking of our existing logistics operations. We are seeing significant saving through Agility’s ability to leverage the logistics market place.”