Purchasing

Sun Chemical targets savings as prices soar
In an era of $40 per barrel oil and stratospheric natural gas rates, most chemical companies would be content to hold the line on spending from one year to the next. But Sun Chemical Corp. recently launched a globally centralized purchasing organization that has the ambitious goal of reducing the company's total cost of ownership in the supply chain by 10%.

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