Purchasing - December 10, 1998
Features
Top pay levels keep going up
For the eighteenth consecutive year, Purchasing Magazine surveyed purchasing professionals across the entire breadth of U.S. industries.
- AUTOMOTIVE/OEM
- Automotive
- BUYING ENERGY
- BUYLINES
- Who's News
- Buyers oppose drastic trade protection
- Coming Up
- Asian flu has many side effects
- EU pushes for ban on non-metric labeling
- GRASS ROOTS REPORT
- Economic malaise spreads, with pockets of strength
- REGULATION WATCH
- OSHA moves on ergo rule
- STATE OF THE ECONOMY
- Gloom spreads, but hope lives on in some corners
- Buying Energy
- CAREERS
- BEST COMPANIES OF 1998
- Best places to work
- STRATEGIES
- Purchasing careers get redefined
- CPI EDITION
- BUYER'S NEWS
- Items in short supply
- Biggest buying problems
- CHEMFORECAST
- Availability keeps prices flat
- CHEMICAL TRANSACTION PRICES
- Purchasing transaction price survey results
- CHLOR-ALKALI
- Will the buyer's market continue?
- Chemical Transaction Prices
- Index inches back up--slightly
- Polymer resins
- PULP & PAPER
- Quality assurance keeps suppliers consistent
- CPI Edition
- Computers, Business Systems and Office Products
- Purchasing Notes
- Purchasing Notes
- Purchasing Notes
- Purchasing Notes
- PURCHASING NOTES
- Purchasing Notes
- OBI transaction flow
- Purchasing Notes
- BRIEFS
- Minolta adds new model to digital office line
- CONVERGING DIGITAL PERIPHERALS
- As technologies converge, so do supplier strategies
- INTERNET SOURCING STRATEGIES
- OBI system enhances card program benefits
- MARKETPLACE
- Are corporate buyers ready to replace monochrome units?
- Electronics Purchasing
- Asia's woes impact board makers, CMs
- Electronics Prices
- Telecom looks at Linux
- Passives demand: Slow, but steady
- Distributor Briefs
- SIA: Chip market to grow 10.9% in 1999
- Nortel evaluates its outsourcing strategy
- Solid growth for 'smart cards'
- AMP, Motorola to develop 'mechatronic' connectors
- Strong growth for communications ICs
- Rechargeables: More energy, less cost
- ASICs
- Price per gate will drop
- DRAM Watch
- Samsung develops 144 Mb RDRAM
- Distribution Watch
- Outlook is brighter in 1999
- ELECTRONIC BUYING CONDITIONS
- Will the buyer's market end soon?
- ELECTRONICS BRIEFS
- Micron Electronics cuts tags
- Electronic Buying Conditions
- Connector tags rise
- Electronics Briefs
- Corning expands
- Zips not just for PCs anymore
- HOTLINE
- Look for PC makers to continue price wars
- Expect Uncle to speed up pace of deciding dumping cases
- Union Pacific appears to be recovering
- Shippers: Plan on paying much higher rates when importing from Asia
- Is your MRO buying strategic--or do you just wing it?
- If you're a purchasing pro in the chemical process industries (CPI), don't miss our latest book
- Anticipate PC life cycles and plan new purchases accordingly
- Plan on soft commodity chemical prices through the first half of next year
- PC prices may feel more downward price pressure
- Count on falling prices for color printers
- Expect soft prices for drams
- Global-warming treaty has no chance of being passed by Congress
- Also count on Dept. of Justice approving most carrier alliances
- TRANSACTION PRICES
- Look for shipments of office units that produce multiple prints (mopiers) to grow strongly over next couple of years
- Don't expect big tariff cuts from Asian countries
- If you want to know what to expect in purchasing over the next decade
- Look for airfare to increase 5%-6% next year
- Consider doing your own environmental audit
- Economy
- The National Association of Home Builders' gravity-defying Housing Market Index edged up again in October
- No credit crunch--yet
- As expected, the Fed shaved another quarter point off two benchmark interest rates
- Only 6% of economists expect a recession to develop in 1999
- napm's prices paid index continues to indicate widespread price erosion
- The U.S. employment cost index beat expectations in quarter three
- Consumer confidence dropped nine points in October
- Markets
- Although demand stalled in third-quarter 1998, U.S. steelmakers still shipped 79.6 million tons
- Semiconductor sales slipped badly in 1998
- Sun Company Inc. of Philadelphia has changed its name to Sunoco Inc.
- Aluminum CEOs expect continued growth in U.S. demand for mill products
- Global demand for refined zinc metal is expected to grow 3% in 1999
- U.S. steel imports totaled 30.5 million tons
- Steel buyers for manufacturing remain cautious
- U.S. softwood lumber demand is expected to slide 5% in 1999
- opec has cut 2.6 million barrels of crude oil from daily output
- arco Products of Los Angeles and Itochu Corp. of Tokyo have agreed to a $200-million joint venture
- Ford expects output of flexible fuel vehicles to represent 10% of its U.S. automotive production
- German chemical giant Hoechst will spin off its industrial chemicals operations by next spring
- U.S. machine-tool sales totaled $5.9 billion through September
- Prices
- LME copper is expected to average 70(cent)-75(cent)/lb in 1999
- Industrial lubricants suppliers are seeking to boost sales prices this quarter by 5%-8%
- Uncoated free-sheet and coated printing/writing paper grades have experienced significant price losses
- Aluminum ingot on the London Metal Exchange (LME) will average 67(cent)/lb
- Vanadium prices are expected to crash next year
- Domestic market prices have touched cyclical lows for steel rod, bars, and beams
- The third-quarter newsprint rebound
- Major transpacific container shipping lines have agreed to boost tariff and service contract rates
- Paperboard prices continue to slide
- Indium has been selling in the U.S. at $235/kilogram
- Dell Computer is cutting prices up to 18% on select models
- Market pulp sales prices should rise to $580/metric ton six months from now
- The combination of excess supply and weak global demand from stainless steelmakers has squashed prices for nickel
- Recently announced price hikes for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) won't stick
- INSIDE PURCHASING
- METALS
- Chips
- Chips
- ALLOYING & PLATING METALS
- There's plenty, and it's staying cheap
- NEWS
- Buying to hold steady for early '99
- Copper can't escape price doldrums
- News
- Stainless imports soar
- Chips
- Titanium Metals, Nippon plan development venture
- Steel trade wars heat up
- Steel industry PMs seek price relief
- Chips
- Copper, brass shipments slip
- Chips
- Chips
- Raw steel production rises
- Import flood boosts China's steel stockpiles, cuts prices
- Wheeling-Pittsburgh sues 15 importers
- Overstocking keeps steel tags low
- Mexico steel exports nosedive
- Chips
- Steelmakers design lightweight auto exteriors
- Shanghai merges three large steel firms
- Chips
- Chips
- Steel distributors set records
- Copper use rises worldwide
- Chips
- U.S. silver mine output slips
- Buyers will see cheap silicon metal
- CHIPS
- Primary aluminum to rise in '99
- Steel tags will fall despite possible trade duties
- Thin-slab stainless developed
- Chips
- Traders set up new company
- Wheel-Pitt realigns customer service
- MRO/DISTRIBUTION
- MRO/Distribution
- Metals
- Alloying & Plating Metals
- Demand slump hits ferroalloys
- ON THE INTERNET
- On the Internet
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- INTEGRAL MOTORS
- It's a buyer's market
- PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
- Purchasing Software News
- Recycling Resources
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
- BUYING PLANS/PRICE EXPECTATIONS
- FORECASTS
- GDP surprises in Q3...
- Forecasts
- ...as consumers confound...
- ...and business limits outlays
- STRATEGIC COST INSIGHTS
- Glass price trend shows cracks
- TRANSPORTATION
- internet report.com
- Career sites for buyers
- Internet Profile
- Internet Profile
- MetalSite chief says mills should do business on the Net
- Internet Profile
- Seven tips for better Web searches
- Internet Profile
- Purchasing Online: Built for buyers
- internet profile
- Buyers strike sourcing GOLD on the Internet
- A sampling of metals Web sites
- E-COMMERCE--STRATEGIES
- IBM moves procurement to the Web--big time!
- Electronics
- There's more to e-commerce than POs
- JOBS
- Variety of Web services makes job searching easy
- METALS
- Metals buyers use Net for supplier research
- MRO/DISTRIBUTION
- To manage catalog content, distributors form partnerships
- TRAINING--INTRANETS
- Online training may become preferred method
- TRANSPORTATION/LOGISTICS
- Internet applications are on the move
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