The first pillar corresponds to DigiB ’ s goal of improving the abilities and experience of Brenntag ’ s employees . Brenntag Source is a portfolio of internal applications that harness the company ’ s data and deliver insights back to its employees . “ We have a lot of pricing trends and other data points from all across the globe which can be very useful to any Brenntag employee ,” Stramrood explains . One of the applications , Brenntag Explore , gives company project managers the ability to perform highly customisable benchmarking tests across multiple dimensions of their portfolios . “ A project manager in Poland can benchmark their procurement data against Brenntag ’ s US figures or against a competitor , or they can compare two different suppliers . This gives us new insights to strengthen our global position in negotiations ,” says Stramrood .

The goal of Brenntag Source is also , Stramrood explains , to improve collaboration across the many regional branches of Brenntag . “ We ’ re trying to enhance the inter-company trading , between our subsidiaries , for example the BeNeLux and German organisations , because this will optimise our global stock position .”

The most impactful of the pillars , Brenntag Connect , is the company ’ s ecommerce portal , designed and supported by DigiB . Stramrood characterises the portal as an ecommerce knowledge and self-service portal . Due to the highly regulated nature of some of the chemicals and ingredients Brenntag deals in , only existing Brenntag customers have

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