As a veteran of the chemical industry, I’m struck by how slow the uptake of digital commerce has been. We’ve worn the label of laggard for decades and, while many attempts have been made over the last 30+ years, adoption of digital commerce technologies and processes have failed to grow into any significance. Most of the multibillion-dollar firms I worked with (including our customers and suppliers) never approached conducting even 10% of their business via digital commerce.
A project manager at a multi-billion dollar global specialty chemicals company used ChemVM to quickly find a chemical supplier that had specific solids flammability handling capabilities for a project that was on a tight deadline. The project manager had been searching for weeks using other methods but could not find a solution. In a few days, he had a match on ChemVM.
Since launching ChemVM, we've received lots of great questions from chemical suppliers, such as How much does ChemVM cost?, When can I start getting leads?, How do suppliers sign up?, and many others. We've compiled answers into an FAQ for chemical service providers' easy reading and reference.
At ChemVM, our mission is to find Best-Fit matches between customers and service providers for chemical processing projects. But what does “Best-Fit” mean, you may ask?
To us, Best-Fit means that a project helps you, the custom or toll chemical manufacturer, contract formulator or packager, realize your goals as a service provider to:
- Maximize profits
- Develop strategic capabilities
- Increase stability and predictability of your sales pipeline and capacity utilization
Let's dive into each of these and further explore why they are so important to help chemical service providers succeed in their business.