REACH Effects – Opportunities and Risks for Transfer Pricing

by | Feb 2009

1 Introduction This article gives a general background to the REACH regulation and reflects on the possible impact of REACH on Transfer Pricing opportunities and risks. REACH stands for Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals. Since REACH may provide...

Dark clouds are gathering

by | Sep 2008

Dark clouds are gathering over global markets: The mortgage crisis in the USA and the high-flying prices for oil and other natural resources like steel or aluminium force the threat of a regression in European and North American countries. Did the motor of the world...

Beyond Forecasting: Responsive Supply Networks

by | Sep 2008

The chemical industry has been hamperedby poor forecasting for years. There are manyreasons why this industry has lagged behindother industries in its adoption of advancedforecasting techniques, but a key reason is thatthe supply chain has been largely based...

Managing the effects of the business cycle in the chemical industry

by | Sep 2008

Companies in many segments of the chemical industry – particularly in the more commoditized segments – are highly exposed to the business cycle. In other words, their businesses tend to be quite profitable at the peak but margins are low or even negative in downturns...