mpany. During the 1980s Royal Dutch/Shell became the target of an international campaign to pressure the company to end its extensive oil, chemical and coal business in South Africa. The company was accused of violating the United Nations embargo on the export of oil to the apartheid regime. During the 1990s, the company came under similar criticism because of its dealings with the dictatorship in Nigeria and the environmental impact of its operations in the United States, Royal Dutch/Shell recently announced an unsolicited takeover bid for Barrett Resources Corp. Think of the oil multinational Shell, and you will probably imagine petroleum pumps, super tankers, refineries and North Sea oil rigs. You would be right to conjure these images up in your mind. What you probably will not see is supply chain management and the business infrastructure support that is necessary and critical to keep the North Sea oil operations of Shell U.K. Explorations and Production supplied with materials and services....
