| Using Yahoo Pipes to Alert Users on Emerging or Actual Chemical Shortages Richard Torian December 2, 2010 I. Details on the Yahoo Pipes Alert Product. This article provides a link to a Yahoo Pipes Product that I created for the purpose of alerting the user to emerging or actual shortages of about 40 chemicals. The Yahoo Pipes Product is intended to be useful to those who would benefit from timely information about when a specific chemical is potentially, beginning to be, or is difficult to obtain because of emerging or actual shortages of the chemical. Purchasers of these chemicals might be one group that would benefit from this product. The information provided in this Yahoo Pipes Product is from RSS feeds, including news, blog, video, and Twitter feeds. Therefore, the information is continually updated from these sources, and to the extent that these sources adequately identify chemical shortages, this Yahoo Pipes Product should timely alert the user to shortages. The chemicals that are reported on include: 1, 3 – butadiene 2 – Ethylhexanol Acrylonitrile Aluminum sulfate Ammonia Ammonium nitrate Ammonium sulfate Aniline Benzene Bromine Chlorine Cumene Epoxy Ethylbenzene Ethylene Ethylene dichloride Ethylene oxide Hydrochloric acid Hydrogen Lime Lithium Nitric acid Nitrogen Oxygen Phosphate rock Phosphoric acid Polyethylene Polypropylene Potash Propylene Sodium carbonate Sodium chlorate Sodium chloride Sodium hydroxide Sodium sulfate Styrene Sulfur Sulfuric acid Titanium dioxide Urea Vinyl acetate These chemicals represent some of the mostly widely used chemicals on a world-wide basis. II. Click here to go to to the Yahoo Pipes Alert Product. Right click to open in a new window. Similar alerts can be created for other lists of chemicals, metals, or rare earth elements. III. Caution. This Yahoo Pipes Alert Product pulls in current and recent RSS feeds from a variety of sources. Anyone of the chemicals covered by this Yahoo Pipes Product may not be identified as being in short supply status by these RSS feed sources even thought the chemical may be so. So, there is no guarantee that a shortage situation will be identified by this Yahoo Pipes Product. Please click here to return to the Management Accounting Information Center front page. Please click here to send an email with comments on this article. |