Purchasing - January 15, 1998
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NAVISTAR
Name: David O. Styka Title: Senior corporate buyer, raw materials Company: Navistar International Transportation Corp., Westchester, Ill.
- AUTOMOTIVE/OEM
- BUYLINES
- Strong supply relationships reduce cost, spark innovation
- PMs see few clouds on the economic horizon
- NAPM joins NISCI
- Anderson retires
- Chrysler elects procurement team leader as its new president
- CASE STUDY: SUPPLIER QUALITY
- Lockheed Martin brings method to metrics madness
- REGULATION WATCH
- Chemicals, paper mills subject to new EPA rule, safety board
- Buying Energy
- CPI EDITION
- Buyer's News
- Biggest buying problems
- CHEMICAL TRANSACTION PRICES
- Index inches up as prices shift
- SOAPS & DETERGENTS
- Leverage means more than strength
- SURFACTANTS
- Producers rush to meet changing needs
- CPI Edition
- BUYER'S NEWS
- Items in short supply
- Buyer's News
- Capital spending
- NAPM Chemical Group to meet in Houston
- CORPORATE CHANGES
- Coatings trends carry on
- $ PRICE CHANGES $
- No end in sight for IBC boom
- Russell-Stanleyon the move
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- Inventory strategy
- Materials availability
- Six-month outlook
- Prices will flatten despite pending price hikes
- $ PRICE CHANGES $
- Supplier quality
- Price increases
- Supply tightens but prices stable for now
- $ PRICE CHANGES $
- Operating rates
- CAPACITY CHANGES
- $ PRICE CHANGES $
- Chemforecast
- Supplies tight, tags higher
- Chemical Transaction Prices
- Polymer Resins
- Soaps & Detergents
- Message not lost on big guys, either
- Surfactants
- New surfactant products--a review
- Computers, Business Systems and Office Products
- PURCHASING NOTES
- PURCHASING NOTES
- PURCHASING NOTES
- PURCHASING NOTES
- PURCHASING NOTES
- PURCHASING NOTES
- Quality in the office comes down to service
- PURCHASING NOTES
- PURCHASING NOTES
- PURCHASING NOTES
- BRIEFS
- Online ordering steps up parts delivery to dealers
- Briefs
- SAM
- Corporate Software takes new initiatives to purchasing managers
- MARKETPLACE
- New distribution strategies promise to shake up market
- PURCHASING STRATEGIES
- Corporate buyers value reseller relationships
- ELECTRONICS PURCHASING
- Distributors look for double-digit growth in '98
- AMD to offer BGA flash
- Japan buys more chips from U.S.
- Contract manufacturers getting more business
- Cost, price analysis: Tags for most parts will drop
- Distribution Watch
- Arrow sets up CMS group
- RATING QUALITY COMPONENTS
- Buyers say component quality improves
- Electronics
- ELECTRONICS BRIEFS
- Electronics forum set
- Electronics Purchasing
- Tiniest transistor developed
- ELECTRONIC BUYING CONDITIONS
- Buyer optimism runs high as new year begins; orders to increase
- Electronics Briefs
- Siemens samples 64 Mb DRAMs
- American IC Exchange gets ISO 9002 approval
- Disk array shipments soar
- Electronics Outlook
- Solid growth, steadier prices in 1998
- HOTLINE
- Don't be surprised to see many recently announced polypropylene expansions cut back or scratched altogether over the next year or so
- ...On the other hand, the worst of the pulp price escalation appears to be passed
- Be prepared for more pressure on prices for corrugated boxes and fiber cans and drums
- Keep an eye on National Labor Relations Board
- Scratch the boost in postal rates that was supposed to go into effect this May
- Look for gold and silver prices to continue their slide for a few more months
- For tips on how some of best and brightest purchasing pros attack supplier quality, be sure to get your own copy of
- Mark your calendar for National Manufacturing Week (March 16-19)
- Meanwhile, on the world scene, look for oversupply of ocean container space to disappear after 1999
- How does the design-procurement connection work in your company
- Expect to buy more DRAMs in modules.
- Keep an eye on inorganic chemical demand
- Take your time in accepting recently announced 10% boost in freight rates on goods moving from Asia to U.S. via ocean shipping cartel, Transpacific Stabilization Agreement
- Need to learn the latest trends in semiconductors and electronic commerce
- Don't get too excited about oil prices and supplies
- Count on a scaled-down product-liability law coming out of Congress in the next few months.
- ECONOMY
- Thirty-six percent of business executives believe the U.S. will avoid recession until after the turn of the millennium
- Economic risk factor du jour is what most refer to as "the Asian turmoil," or "the Asian crisis."
- Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index rose five points in November
- For the first time in this economic cycle, policy survey panelists (9%)
- Most analysts, it seems, think the Fed will remain "on hold" at least through first-half 1998.
- Markets
- United States Gypsum will invest $90 million
- Machine tool sales totaled $6.87 billion through October
- North American tire production will rise at a 1.6% annual rate
- Builders are confident about future demand for new homes
- Motorola will spend $1.1 billion to more than double microchip capacity
- Dow Chemical and Sentinel Products are forming
- Capable of using high-grade zinc?
- Lucent Technologies plans to spend $350 million
- The number of motor vehicles in use worldwide will grow from 625 million today to 1 billion
- Demand for building control systems was softer than expected in 1997
- Ticona plans to boost capacity for Celstran long-fiber reinforced thermoplastics
- Bethlehem Steel, the nation's second largest steelmaker, is trying to buy rival Lukens
- Prices
- Timken and Quanex Tube Group are leading a 4% boost in seamless mechanical tubing product prices
- Hoeganaes Corp. has proposed 4% price increases
- Abitibi-Consolidated plans an 8% newsprint price hike for April
- Producers are trying for price hikes on retail bags, grocery sacks, and multiwall shipping sacks
- Market analysts predict further price turmoil for dynamic random access memory (DRAM)
- A bearish picture is developing for world lead prices due to expected growth in mine production
- Hewlett-Packard cut prices on its line of business PC workstations
- Benchmark London Metal Exchange (LME) cash nickel will move from
- Cobalt prices will slide below $10/lb in coming years
- A proposed $20/ton April list-price increase on steel plate virtually guarantees that spot tags will rise twice as much
- INFORMEX '98
- CUSTOM/SPECIALTY CHEMICALS
- Purchasers refine outsourcing strategies
- Custom/Specialty Chemicals
- Supplier selection factors and performance ratings
- Tough buy brings tough challenges
- How outsourcing is purchased
- 'A market with a learning curve'
- Sourcing: Critical factor in drug manufacturing
- Growth in outsourcing will stay strong
- INFORMEX 98
- CUSTOM/SPECIALTY CHEMICALS
- Pricing issues lead buyers' complaints
- Custom/Specialty Chemicals
- Outsourcing speeds new product development
- How to leverage outsourcing's value
- New drug market needs new sourcing strategy
- Pharmaceuticals rule
- Suppliers don't see Internet as major factor--yet
- INSIDE PURCHASING
- Job Scene
- METALS
- Metals Report Card
- Buyers knock metals 'quality'
- NEWS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- Expect early '98 battle over spot aluminum prices
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- Buying more metal in '98
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- CHIPS
- News
- Metals producers, users oppose global warming pact
- Krupp, Thyssen form steel, industrial Goliath
- Ford eyes aluminum foundry
- Economists see another strong steel-consuming year
- Brass buyers are very busy
- Raw steel production soars
- NJ Steel goes to Co-Steel
- Cyprus Foote is on the block
- MRO/DISTRIBUTION
- Metals
- Stainless Steel Market
- Will demand keep growing? Yes, but at a slower rate
- A buyer's guide to stainless steel
- ON THE INTERNET
- PRODUCTS
- HAND TOOLS
- It's going to be another solid year
- PURCHASING SOFTWARE NEWS
- QUALITY METALS
- Quality
- Was it all just TALK?
- QUALITY TRAINING & EDUCATION
- Few companies insist on quality training
- SCORECARD
- Quality rises but problems remain
- SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT
- Purchasing needs to do more than measure
- TRANSPORTATION
- Providers get serious about improving quality
- Transportation
- FedEx expands Priority to include Sunday delivery
- RECYCLING RESOURCES
- STRATEGIES
- PROCUREMENT CARDS
- Card providers respond to calls for improvements
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
- Forecasts
- ...businesses must spend
- ...consumers may confound
- STRATEGIC COST INSIGHTS
- Buyers can nail down wire tags
- Transportation
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