Purchasing - August 12, 1999
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Compaq Computer is offering a price cut, along with product and Internet service rebates
Compaq Computer is offering a price cut, along with product and Internet service rebates, for its Presario personal computers.
- AUTOMOTIVE/OEM
- BUYING ENERGY
- BUYLINES
- Crystal Ball consensus sees BIG '99
- BENCHMARKING
- Beware shortcut management
- MURRAY'S LAW
- Problems with CISG: Part I
- UPDATE
- Listen to yourselves!
- WASHINGTON PERSPECTIVE
- Electricity competition gains, but major battles still loom
- CAREER DEVELOPMENT
- CRoss-functional teams--part IV
- To build a team, you've got to tear down walls
- CPI EDITION
- BUYER'S NEWS
- Price increases jump up, but supply remains good
- CHEMFORECAST
- Capacity expansions keep prices stable
- CPI Edition
- BUYER'S NEWS
- FMC Corp.
- Can competition help keep prices down?
- Air Products and Chemicals
- Chemcentral Corp.
- Demand, outages lift contracts short term
- Union Carbide Corp
- Allied Signal
- DuPont
- Producers push price hikes
- PPG Industries
- Intertape Polymer Group
- Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux
- Search for more efficient products continues
- POLYETHYLENES
- Demand surge produces rising prices ...for now
- Computers, Peripherals & Software
- BRIEFS
- Savin adds new laser printers to line
- PC Expo
- Exhibitors tout mobility of new personal computers
- PC sourcing strategies
- Portable PCs steal show at annual expo
- Dire predictions for PCs wrong, says Dell CEO
- PURCHASING NOTES
- Corporate IT buyers may gain some security
- Oracle plans to set a standard, global price for its software within the year.
- Business Technology Association has changed plans for its 2000 expo
- Caucus--the association serving the needs of high-tech procurement professionals
- Compaq Computer has slashed prices up to 14%
- Electronics Purchasing
- LCD tags rise... for now
- TSMC On-Line launched
- More alliances are likely
- Cyrix to be sold
- Relay market to post mild growth
- Y2K consortium formed
- ELECTRONICS PRICES
- DISTRIBUTION WATCH
- Avnet to be number one?
- DRAMS
- Prices and revenue decline in Q2
- ELECTRONIC BUYING CONDITIONS
- Interconnect costs fall
- Supply and demand move toward balance
- ELECTRONICS BRIEFS
- Acquisition completed by Flextronix
- Board production rises
- CMs add 60 sites
- STRATEGIES
- Accelerated Networks outsources more than manufacturing
- INSIDE PURCHASING
- JOB SCENE
- METALS
- BUSINESS SURVEY
- Prices & availability good, but clouds loom
- CHIPS FROM ABROAD
- Norandal
- Allegheny Ludlum
- Munroe Metal Service
- Co-Steel
- Oregon Steel Mills
- Hydro Aluminium
- Coulter Steel & Forge
- Nord Resources
- Michigan Sintered Metals
- Bull Moose Tube
- Canacero
- Thyssen Steel Group
- Grupo Mexico
- Samuel, Son & Co.
- METAL PARTS
- PRICES STABLE despite strong demand
- METALS PERSPECTIVE
- Steel price rebound seen for 2000
- NEWS
- Mine shutdowns will boost copper tags
- OUTSOURCING
- Buyers drive boom in processing
- STEEL TRADE WARS
- U.S., Brazil strike steel deal
- Specialty imports aren't slipping--yet
- W-P, Weirton hold talks
- U.S., Russia ink steel agreement
- Pipemakers seek punitive duties
- MRO/distribution
- BRIEFS
- WESCO International has acquired Coghlin Electric
- Motion Industries has received General Motors supplier of the year award for the third consecutive year.
- I.D. One has selected Industrial Supply Company, Terre Haute, Ind., as its newest member distributor. I.D.
- NEWS
- Conference on non-traditional purchasing set for September
- Competing suppliers partner to benefit Bethlehem Steel
- ON THE INTERNET
- Office Products & Business Systems
- BRIEFS
- Pitney Bowes adds digital metering systems to line
- Office paper
- Sales growth isn't igniting prices
- PURCHASING NOTES
- Elcom International has entered into a strategic alliance with S.P. Richards Company
- In preparations for the year 2000, don't overlook ensuring scheduled deliveries of "critical" imaging supplies
- "Combating Fraud and Counterfeiting in the Imaging Supplies Industry" conference
- Purchasing recycled office furniture can save corporate buyers up to 70% off the original manufacturer's suggested retail price
- Electronic purchasing for Business-to-Business Commerce conference takes place Sept. 15-17, 1999, at the Chicago Hilton & Towers
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- Belts & hoses
- Growth is in repair and replacement market
- PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
- PURCHASING HOTLINE
- Count on increases in health-care benefit costs through the rest of this year
- Warning: It's not just your marketplace, your strategic plan, your track record or your technology that determines your ability to grow--it's your people
- If you're a purchasing pro in the chemical process industries (CPI)
- Keep an eye on mega-merger in copper industry.
- Watch for shipping conferences to continue to disband
- TRANSACTION PRICES
- Exporters: Keep an eye on two proposed regulations.
- Expect at least some of recent price hike for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) to stick
- Expect natural gas and oil companies to step up takeovers of electric utilities
- Get up to speed on the Internet
- Worried about computer hackers and viruses that can destroy data?
- Plan on business investment in plants and equipment to stay strong
- Smart money says Caribbean trade bill will pass Congress this year
- Rail shippers: Be aware that railroads recently lost two rate defenses
- Look for oil prices to soften soon.
- Keep an eye on Web auction sites
- Watch for more buying consortiums groups to form
- Expect business travel costs to increase next year
- Be sure to enter Purchasing's Welcome Booklet contest.
- Discount any talk of crisis when Panama takes over Canal on Dec. 31
- Don't expect 1999 Water Resources Development Act to be passed this year
- Check out Purchasing's new book
- ECONOMY
- Each passing month adds another arrow to the inflation hunter's quiver
- Latest issue of Blue Chip Economic Indicators (July 1999) puts the consensus forecast for 1999 GDP at 4%-
- Some firms will stockpile critical components this fall
- The U.S. trade deficit continued to surge
- Manufacturers lack pricing confidence
- The economic situation for the world and the oecd area as a whole now looks more favorable that it did six months ago
- MARKETS
- Home builders are concerned about shortages of skilled construction workers and such building materials
- Tissue demand should remain strong, particularly in commercial and industrial markets
- Steel shipments from abroad dropped 13% between May and June
- Orders for machine tools rose 39% through May to an estimated $2.2 billion compared to the same period last year
- CEO of computer chipmaker Intel predicts that the number of Internet users will increase six-fold to one billion within five years
- North American-based plastic compound makers expect 5% sales growth this year to $9.6 billion
- OPEC'S cuts in crude oil production and rising demand for gasoline and other refined products could lead to the biggest winter oil shortage in more than a decade
- PRICES
- Price increases for unbleached kraft linerboard ($40/ton) and semichemical corrugating medium ($50/ton) appear to have stuck
- Reinforcing bar prices increased about $10/ton last month to $310 in the Midwest
- Containerboard tags have yet to regain 1998 levels, but they'll continue rising as the year progresses
- Allegheny Ludlum is leading a specialty steel industry effort to boost prices for stainless steel hot- and cold-rolled sheet, strip, and coiled plate by 7%
- GNB Technologies has raised August prices for lead-acid batteries by 5%
- Glues and adhesives from France, Germany, and Italy are now subject to 100% tariffs
- Mexican Energy Minister Luis Tellez says crude oil prices won't rise beyond their current $20-$21/barrel
- An attempt to boost brass rod prices by 4¢/lb has flopped
- Steelmakers, led by Ispat-Inland Steel Co., will attempt to raise spot market prices on several sheet steel products in September
- Almost all integrated and independent containerboard producers are proposing 11.5% price increases on corrugated box deliveries in August.
- Polystyrene producers have pushed 3¢ worth of additional price increases through to buyers.
- Copper cathode prices on the London Metal Exchange could slip back to 65¢/lb in early 2000
- National average price for self-serve regular unleaded gasoline jumped 3.2¢ to $1.174 per gallon in July
- July brought an apparent end to the seven-month newsprint price slide
- Although corporate travel executives are resisting increases in excess of 3% this year
- Imposition of sales taxes on electronic commerce would cut expected sales activity by 30%, according to a new study
- Intel is cutting wholesale prices on its Pentium III line of microchips by 10%-15%
- PURCHASING SOFTWARE NEWS
- Packaging
- RECYCLING RESOURCES
- STRATEGIES
- The networked office
- A networked office makes a company more COMPETITIVE
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
- BUYING PLANS/PRICE EXPECTATIONS
- LEADTIMES
- FORECASTS
- Housing boom wavers
- Price index flashes warning
- PMI shows surging economy
- STRATEGIC COST INSIGHTS
- Foam is eligible for price cuts
- TRANSPORTATION
- NEWS
- L.B. Foster completes acquisition of CXT
- Hazmat carrier pooling plan won't raise rates, carriers say
- DHL International acquires Argentina operation
- Mesa Air Group merges with CCAIR
- UPS to acquire Challenge Air Cargo
- HAD Parts System acquires Vantage Parts
- TECHNOLOGY
- High-tech tools: Boon for shippers & carriers
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