The value chain depicts all of the key profit-building activities a company engages in, beginning with inbound logistics and moving through operations, outbound logistics, marketing and sales and ...

Tilman Breitenstein of BASF sets out how companies can use value chain analyses to identify where to focus IP resources, from a beer maker’s perspective Patent attorneys are increasingly being asked ...

Value chain management, also known as supply chain management, has come a long way to become what it is today. In the past, value chain analysis was focused more on logistics, on the manual aspect of ...

It is difficult to locate value within the conventional notion of the petroleum industry, especially in the upstream. A holistic approach to the much broader petrochemical and petroproduct value ...