Purchasing - June 18, 1998
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Build-to-order buying is NOT that easy
The goal of the build-to-order business model that was pioneered by Dell Computer and embraced by many other PC companies is simple: Give the customer the product he wants when he wants it. In practical terms that means within five days.
- BUYING ENERGY
- BUYLINES
- Buyers hone their approachto new-product launches
- Get up to speed on e-commerce
- GRASS ROOTS REPORT
- Buyers concentrate on short leadtimes and low inventories
- SUPPLY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
- Seven steps for making good commodity business plans
- WASHINGTON PERSPECTIVE
- IRS Reform: What to expect
- Computers, Business Systems and Office Products
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- BRIEFS
- Toshiba adds digital copiers to product line
- MARKETPLACE
- Demand for personal workstations lifts industry shipment figures
- PC SOURCING STRATEGIES
- IT purchasing no stranger to supplier backdoor selling
- PRINTERS and PERIPHERALS
- Technologies converge at dealer conference
- Cover Story
- High-tech purchasing
- Growth, BTO change Compaq's purchasing organization
- Electronics Purchasing
- Healthy demand for ceramic capacitors
- Shugart: Better times are coming for the drive industry
- Electronics Prices
- Some independents try to reinvent themselves
- Distribution Watch
- Kaufman: Distributors are at a crossroads
- ELECTRONIC BUYING CONDITIONS
- No end in sight for buyer's market
- ELECTRONICS BRIEFS
- Chip equipment to grow 18%
- Electronic Buying Conditions
- Semiconductor costs are up
- Electronics Briefs
- DRAM fab begins production
- Packard Bell NEC to use Cyrix MPUs
- Low-cost computers are hot
- Intel cuts mobile processors tags
- Intel moves to 0.25 micron
- Independent Distribution
- Why buyers use non-franchised distributors
- HOTLINE
- Demand is on the rise for 2mm backlane connectors.
- Meanwhile, Fastener Quality Act (FQA) regs are set to go into effect July 26
- Don't miss the 1998 Purchasing Conference
- Keep an eye on Custom's processing fees.
- Look for EPA to publish final rule limiting VOC (volatile organic compound) emissions for paints and coatings in August.
- Look for prices on 16-megabit drams to stabilize over the rest of the year while 64-megabit devices continue to fall.
- Are you able to squeeze out the waste in office buying?
- Are you up to the competitive challenges of the electronics marketplace?
- This is your absolutely last chance to enter Purchasing's welcome booklet contest.
- Airline marketing alliances are far from a "sure thing."
- Record-breaking consolidation continues in the flexible packaging industry
- Look for boom times among the machine tool makers.
- Discount talk of more and sharper price cuts on synthetic rubber products.
- Don't hold your breath waiting for Congress to pass major environmental legislation this year.
- Expect stiff competition to depress capacitor tags for most of the year.
- Economy
- Economic confidence among CEOs continues to slide
- New housing starts edged down 2.5% in March and another 2.3% in April
- As expected, the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged
- Unexpected inventory accumulation drove up Commerce's estimate for first-quarter GDP growth
- If you have yet to witness a big surge in cheap imports from troubled Asian nations, just wait
- Federal Reserve officials appear to be hoping for a gentle waning of stock prices
- Markets
- Japan's NKK Corp. will reorganize its semiconductor business
- CP Ships, the ocean-going unit of Canadian Pacific railroad, has bought Ivaran Lines
- Thermoplastic resins appear to have shaken off a midwinter slump
- Office Depot is buying Viking Office Products
- Makers of steel, concrete, and other construction materials expect long-term demand gains
- Reynolds Metals expects "continued strong demand" for aluminum products to boost growth in North American ingot consumption
- New low-emission vehicle laws in the U.S. are expected to reverse a recent decline in use of rhodium-bearing autocatalysts
- U.S. machine tool demand totaled $2 billion in first-quarter 1998
- The merger of Jefferson Smurfit's U.S. subsidiary and Stone Container will create a new firm
- Ball Corp. has bought most of Reynolds Metals' beverage can business
- Some 2.1 billion lb of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe was used for water transmission in 1997
- General Motors has entered into a strategic alliance with Williams International
- Building-supply retailers confirm reports from equipment makers that sales of kitchen and bath products are unexpectedly strong
- Demand for off-road farm, construction, and commercial machinery is expected to remain healthy
- Mail-Well Inc. of Englewood, Colo., has created a new general commercial printing division
- Prices
- The outlook is quickly fading for latest price increases on kraft linerboard and corrugating medium
- International ore price settlements have increased by an average of 3% in 1998
- Mills want a 10% hike on box prices
- At least one steelmaker wants a midsummer price hike of $25/ton on 1200-series, hot-rolled special bar quality (SBQ) grades
- Buyers can expect little change in crude oil prices
- The national average price of unleaded gasoline rose
- Current weakness in U.S. specialty steel pricing is not likely to end any time soon
- A seasonal surge in demand for single-serving bottles has helped to boost PET bottle resin prices by 3(cent)/lb
- In an effort to close a wide price gap between cut-size office paper and uncoated free-sheet
- World tin prices will soon approach $6,400/metric ton
- Continued oversupply and competition from other materials has resulted in a 3(cent)/lb slide in ABS pricing
- A wood-pulp price hike is in trouble and spot tags could fall
- Global stainless steel prices will remain low for the next two years
- Producers, exporters, and brokers all expect more slippage in prices for natural rubber
- Paper mills have proposed a 5% July hike for coated groundwood grades
- Hotline
- How buyers use the net
- Special Internet Report
- Purchasing shares supply information over internal Web
- Net Profile
- Purchasing Online keeps buyers in the know
- UTC uses Net-based auction to help craft an optimal supply base
- Six steps to intranet-based training
- Net Profile
- Web becomes job bank for buyers, purchasing groups
- Web promises best prices for excess stock
- Net buying puts EFTC on path for fast-paced growth
- Buyers make Net part of sourcing toolkit
- Purchasing goes to school on company intranets
- Net Profile
- Private Net improves talks between Ford and suppliers
- MRO/DISTRIBUTION
- MRO/Distribution
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- POWER TRANSMISSION
- Demand sparks short-term supply tightening
- PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
- Purchasing Software News
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
- TRANSPORTATION
- INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING
- Could Latin America be the next hot spot for shippers?
- NEWS
- Ten commandments for hazardous materials shipping
- News
- Lessors, carriers gear up for another big delivery season
- Logistics firms grow roots in Latin America
- Intermodal equipment takes aspin on the World Wide Web
- Buyers will manage more household moves
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