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Construction Specialties is integrating Oracle Commerce Cloud and Oracle CPQ Cloud with Oracle Supply Chain Cloud and Oracle ERP Cloud, enabling the 70-year old manufacturer of specialty building products to grow its market share.
Companies like Staples and Construction Specialties that have already put a considerable amount of time and money into sourcing safer chemicals are also working together to share what they've learned with other companies looking to green their chemical supply chains.
"At first we had this collective sigh of relief, but then we realized that the incinerator would just be built in some other town, and that got us thinking about the source of the problem--toxic waste--and what we could do about it," says Construction Specialties' vice president and general manager Howard Williams.
Construction Specialties is a supplier of building materials to some of the largest industrial and commercial enterprises in the country, and when the company began looking into phasing toxics out of its products it started with polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a common ingredient of many building materials and known to release harmful dioxin and chlorine compounds.
The BizNGO Group includes both Staples and Construction Specialties, along with companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Method and a dozen other top-tier manufacturers, along with several non-governmental organizations, including the Center for Environmental Health and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
"We have a contract with Kaiser that's worth a substantial amount of money annually and if we did not have the sort of chemical policy we have in place we would not have gotten that contract". Construction Specialties is not alone in either its journey toward green chemistry or its discovery that demand for safer chemicals is on the rise.
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