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Quality Quotient: CHEMCENTRAL Benchmarks Bar Coding with PVS Nolwood
When Mike Gallagher, vice president of Plant Operations, and Dave Beattie, corporate traffic manager, for CHEMCENTRAL Corp., Bedford Park, Ill., arrived at PVS Nolwood's headquarters in Detroit, they were stepping onto a competitor's turf. Nolwood and CHEMCENTRAL are both highly successful chemical distributors and thus potential rivals.
But on this visit, cooperation was the watchword. The CHEMCENTRAL executives were on a benchmarking mission. A division of PVS Chemicals, Inc., an international chemical producer, PVS Nolwood had implemented one of the most advanced bar-coding systems in the industry to manage its inventory. CHEMCENTRAL, a billion-dollar corporation with 39 branches in North America, was there to see the bar-coding system in action.