Purchasing - March 25, 1999
- BUYLINES
- BUYING PLANS
- The worm may be turning for commodities demand
- CRYSTAL BALL CONTEST WINNER
- Olympic Steel's Ruane takes top spot--again
- MURRAY'S LAW
- How to 'get it in writing'
- WASHINGTON PERSPECTIVE
- After three years, phone competition remains elusive
- CAREER DEVELOPMENT
- NEGOTIATION SKILLS
- Strategic negotiating goes far beyond best price
- Computers, Peripherals & Software
- PURCHASING NOTES
- PURCHASING NOTES
- PURCHASING NOTES
- PURCHASING NOTES
- PURCHASING NOTES
- BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY EXPO
- Printer OEMs converge on Business Technology Expo
- PC SOURCING STRATEGIES
- Corporate buyers plan to spend more on PCs in 1999
- PRINTERS
- Paper handling perks up printer performance
- Electronics Purchasing
- Intel starts shipping Pentium IIIs
- Power supply IC to post solid growth
- Electronics Prices
- Better days are coming for chip industry
- Contract Manufacturing
- Using distributors can lower acquisition costs
- Distribution Watch
- Newark sees Internet as strong enabling tool
- E-COMMERCE
- Internet buying on the rise
- ELECTRONIC BUYING CONDITIONS
- Prices stay low as availability runs high
- ELECTRONICS BRIEFS
- Sager to buy Calswitch
- Intel cuts Celeron tags
- Solid growth for PCs
- 12-inch wafers are coming
- Electronic Buying Conditions
- Board tags fall
- Product Update
- Expect more value added in switches
- INSIDE PURCHASING
- JOB SCENE
- MRO/DISTRIBUTION
- Grainger develops new Web site for 'one-stop' MRO purchases
- NEWS
- NAPP meeting: Change may create profit opportunity
- News
- Cameron & Barkley's electrical division recognizes Gould Shawmut as its top-rated quality supplier for 1998
- imark, a member-owned marketing group serving more than 180 independent electrical distributors, has added two members: A-C Electrical Supplies, Smithtown, N.Y., and DXP Enterprises, Houston, Texas
- Motion Industries has acquired Bush-Miller Incorporated of York, Pa.
- Bearing Distributors has acquired Industrial Bearing Service
- Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y., has signed a North American MRO integrated-supply contract with Affiliated Distributors
- Engineered Sales, a subsidiary of Applied Industrial Technologies
- Turtle & Hughes, Linden, N.J.
- ON THE INTERNET
- Office Products & Business Systems
- BRIEFS
- Xerox copier does ledger-size copies in a flash
- PURCHASING NOTES
- OfficeMax has broken ground for the first of three new office buildings in Cleveland Enterprise Park
- Pitney Bowes Office Systems is a recipient of Southwestern Bell's 1998 Silver Quality Partner award
- Kelly Services has created Kelly General Contractor Services, a new outsourcing service
- Buyers Laboratory for the first time includes multifunction products in its 1998 "Pick of the Year" awards
- The contract & commercial unit of Staples is working with Ariba Technologies to provide electronic commerce systems to corporate buyers
- Recent hikes by the U.S. Postal Service mean businesses are paying up to 5% more annually on postage
- Boise Cascade Office Products has acquired the contract stationery business of Wallace Computer Services
- Canon U.S.A. has acquired Konex S.A., a major distributor of office imaging systems located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- SOURCING STRATEGIES
- Office supplies: First step in a global buying strategy
- TELECOM EQUIPMENT & PAGERS
- Spending on pagers continues to grow
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- GE Capital launches euro card
- LIGHTING
- Tags continue to creep up despite soft market
- Procurement Cards
- Card use and capabilities keep expanding
- PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
- PURCHASING HOTLINE
- "Mega-dealers" of office products keep getting stronger
- Electronics buyers can expect weak connector prices for the rest of the year
- Count on air freight rates to stay low at least through the summer, and possibly as late as fourth quarter
- Electronic commerce over the Internet continues to rise
- Do you think your company is a great place for a purchasing professional to work?
- PC buyers may want to check out this year's PC Expo
- Expect prices for PC monitors to keep climbing well into next year
- Keep an eye on international talks that would eliminate duties on information-technology products
- We need your help! If you're actively involved in day-to-day buying of industrial commodities
- Keep an eye on bill that would increase carriers' liability for goods damaged during sea shipment
- Check out new service from U.S. Postal Service
- Expect prices for disk drives to keep falling
- Expect high-tech buying to take off this year
- Get up to speed on the Internet
- Here's the outlook for energy pricing for the rest of '99
- Are you up to the competitive challenges of the electronics marketplace?
- High-speed passenger rail lines may provide cost-effective alternative to air travel in next few years
- Economy
- Uncle revised up its estimate for real GDP growth in fourth-quarter 1998
- Housing market loses steam
- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (oecd) has raised its forecast for U.S. economic growth
- There was something for everybody in the Fed chairman's recent Humphrey-Hawkins testimony before Congress
- An "unrelenting barrage of strong economic reports" has forced economists to add optimism to their 1999 forecasts
- Purchasing kicks off 1999 Crystal Ball economic forecast contest
- Markets
- 3Com Corp., the Santa Clara, Calif.-based data communications equipment maker, is buying NBX Corp.
- While laptop personal computers represent only 15%-20% of the PC market
- United Technologies Corp. will spend $4.3 billion to buy aerospace-parts maker Sundstrand Corp.
- Watch for a rash of natural gas company acquisitions by U.S. electric interests
- Ethylene inventories recently reached an average six days of supply
- Personal-computer maker Gateway and online retailer necx
- Start-up company Minnesota Iron & Steel of Nashwauk, Minn., plans to build a steel sheet product mini-mill
- Commerce Undersecretary of Economic Affairs Robert Shapiro sees little chance for a short-term end
- Sales on the Internet will create an e-commerce boom, hitting $1 trillion by 2002
- Copper supply is likely to exceed demand by at least 400,000 metric tons
- The trade deficit for U.S. lumber and related wood products increased almost 30% in 1998
- More than 340,000 computer-related jobs have not been filled at U.S. companies
- Because North American economic growth will be much greater than originally thought, forecasters say auto sales
- The outlook for materials handling equipment calls for 6% growth in 1999 orders and a 9% rise in 2000 bookings
- Major North American newsprint producers are reducing annual production by 160,000 annual metric tons
- Dutch electronics group Royal Philips has offered to buy U.S. semiconductor firm vsli technology
- Prices
- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin producers are attempting to end long-term price slippage by implementing a 5¢/lb
- Some polypropylene suppliers have proposed hikes ranging up to 3¢/lb
- Suppliers have announced 3¢/lb price hikes for March deliveries of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins
- Downward pressure on trans-Atlantic ocean freight rates remains despite steady business
- Aluminum prices will probably fall over the next two years
- Mexico's largest steelmakers have proposed a 10% hike on hot-rolled sheet
- Excess global capacity for folding carton board and uncertain offshore demand could result in reduced pricing this year
- While transaction prices for benchmark northern bleached softwood kraft (nbsk) market pulp have fallen below industry list
- The national average price for unleaded regular gasoline continues to hover at $1/gallon
- Prices for corrugated containers and boxes have started to move up
- Coated paper prices remain flat, but some buyers think the price dive has touched bottom
- Hardwood pulp producers have added $30/tonne to April list prices for northern bleached hardwood kraft
- Platinum will trade this year in a wide $330-$415 range (averaging $378)
- Polyethylene (PE) producers claim to have won a quiet
- Mills have postponed a 4% price increase on stainless steel sheet and strip
- It's premature for producers to conclude that nonferrous metals prices have hit bottom
- Analyst Joe Moore of Goldman Sachs sees potential for dram price declines in coming weeks
- PURCHASING SOFTWARE NEWS
- Purchasing Hotline
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
- LEADTIMES
- Supplies will stay loose
- Consumers could waver
- BUYING PLANS/PRICE EXPECTATIONS
- FORECASTS
- Productivity growth to slow
- STRATEGIC COST INSIGHTS
- Boiling for price cuts
- Strategies
- ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
- Lots of interest, little action
- TRANSPORTATION
- Congress to consider STB revisions
- Who'll pay for harbor maintenance?
- Logistics Scheduling Software
- 'Supply chain software' changes FOCUS
- NEWS
- Ocean shipping changes affect prices
- The Energy Buy
- To the readers of Energy User News and Purchasing Magazine--
- ENERGY RISK MANAGEMENT
- Exposed wires!
- ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
- Power tools
- EXCLUSIVE READER SURVEY
- Electric power customers prepare for competition
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