Purchasing - February 10, 2000
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Spot-market prices for some high-end memory chips have more than doubled in recent months
Spot-market prices for some high-end memory chips have more than doubled in recent months, and the supply squeeze will continue until new production facilities come on line in 2002, says Dan Hutcheson of VLSI Res
- AUTOMOTIVE/OEM
- BUYING IN THE OEM
- AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING
- Pressure still on tier-one suppliers to cut costs
- BUYLINES
- Candidates upbeat on free trade, Congress may attack WTO, China
- BENCHMARKING
- Benchmarking is personal
- GRASSROOTS BUSINESS SURVEY
- Buyers ring in new year with substantial optimism
- MARKET REPORT
- Polyethylene prices may lose their momentum this year
- MURRAY'S LAW
- The writing requirement
- REGULATION WATCH
- Ergonomics proposal zeros in on assembly, manual labor jobs
- SPECIAL REPORT
- Economists say 'pipeline inflation' will fizzle in 2000
- WASHINGTON PERSPECTIVE
- Pols, agencies, lobbies itch for Internet governance role
- CAREER DEVELOPMENT
- COMPUTERS PERIPHERALS & SOFTWARE
- BRIEFS
- Hewlett-Packard and Nashua Corp. form alliance to develop supplies
- Dell introduces ultralight notebook PC for corporate use
- PERIPHERALS SOURCING STRATEGIES
- Direct model makes sense for monitors, says supplier
- PURCHASING NOTES
- To help reduce costs of servicing its customers, Oracle has lowered the price of its database
- Corporate buyers spent $517.6 billion on telecommunication goods and services in 1999
- Lexmark restructures and streamlines its organization to better serve its expanding customer base
- Hewlett-Packard and Nashua Corp. have formed a strategic alliance
- STRATEGIES
- Allstate leverages sourcing to better serve customers
- CPI EDITION
- LEADTIMES
- BUYER'S NEWS
- CORPORATE CHANGES
- Rising demand, prices forecast for 2000
- Producers hike prices for both flake and liquid products
- Steel drum tags start to rebound after tough year
- Buyers face rising prices, tight supplies
- PRICE INCREASES
- CHEMFORECAST
- Prices will inch up this year
- CHEMICAL TRANSACTION PRICES
- Purchasing transaction price survey results
- Plastic resin prices
- Buyers see index moving down, then up
- COST REDUCTION
- How suppliers make money for PPG
- SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE
- Buyers are taking a deeper view
- Praxair TARGETs performance improvement
- ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING
- SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
- Buyers look to distributors for supply chain services
- ELECTRONICS PURCHASING
- TT Group buys BI Technologies
- ELECTRONIC PRICES
- CONTRACT MANUFACTURING
- TSMC gets bigger
- Foundries drive fab equipment growth
- Solectron to buy more manufacturing plants
- Contract manufacturers to buy more connectors
- Celestica acquires IBM facilities
- CM business rises 21.5%
- ELECTRONIC BUYING CONDITIONS
- Prices stay steady, but more report shortages
- Connector tags rise
- INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT
- Correction
- Ion dominates lithium battery market
- Gateway to use Athlon
- Semiconductor market posts 17.6% growth
- Disk drives aren't just for computers anymore
- Samsung to invest in Alpha microprocessors
- Bell Micro to sell IBM products
- Flash is no flash in the pan
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- Portable equipment moves to lithium ion cells
- SEMICONDUCTORS
- Expect strong growth, lower tags for DSPs
- INSIDE PURCHASING
- JOB SCENE
- METAL PRICES 2000
- Zinc supply short; blame galvanizers
- Surging nickel demand by stainless mills is escalating pricing
- Commodity metals pricing will rebound
- Sheet prices reflect lower imports
- Lackluster demand worldwide moderates rise in lead tags
- Buyers will pay a lot more this year
- Copper firms betting that less supply will pump up prices
- Rise in raw material costs is inflating aluminum ingot
- METALS
- Automotive Metals
- It's still steel's game to lose
- METALS TRADING
- Price hedging ready to explode
- NEWS
- CHIPS FROM ABROAD
- WTO deems U.S. wrong on bar duties
- Market analysts say precious metals tags will rise in 2000
- Coated steel info center established
- Dofasco will upgrade main hot rolling mill
- CHIPS
- WTO rejects U.S. use of 1916 trade statute
- Rising demand tide boosts key nonferrous price tags
- Imports reverse price trend in market for steel wire rod
- Silver output growth slows
- GM writes off its electric car
- Stainless pipe group reconvenes
- Price acceleration has slowed a little--not much
- New silver contract opens to thin volume on the LME
- Years will pass before Asian steel demand recovers to pre-recession peaks
- Combine those steel plants, now!
- U.S. stainless mills worry about October import levels
- METALS PRICES 2000
- MRO/DISTRIBUTION
- OFFICE PRODUCTS & BUSINESS SYSTEMS
- BRIEFS
- Staples updates Web site with Report Wizard feature
- Konica multifunction unit has fax-to-e-mail capability
- Francotyp-Postalia site provides postage online
- FACSIMILE MARKETPLACE
- Think fax: The technology, not the machine
- US Office Products has expanded the selection of available products on its Web site to 25,000 items
- The Business Technology Association holds its annual conference
- An agreement between Noosh and Wallace allows for technologically advanced printing processes to occur on the Web
- Xerox has raised prices by up to 5%
- Making the Transition to Digital Office Copiers: A Buyer's Guide
- OFFICE SUPPLIES
- Xerox cracks down on supplies counterfeiters
- ON THE INTERNET
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- LIFT TRUCKS
- Demand remains strong, prices will rise
- PROCUREMENT CARDS
- Growing a p-card program
- PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
- PURCHASING HOTLINE
- Look for exports to increase at healthy rate this year
- If you're a purchasing pro in the chemical process industries (CPI)
- Count on inflation rate in 2000 to be same as this year
- Expect growth in foreign markets to fuel durable good orders this year
- Note that U.S. has levied heavy duties on steel plate products
- And don't be surprised if similar duties are slapped on cold-rolled steel
- Expect merger of Burlington North Santa Fe and Canadian National to be approved
- Count on suppliers trying to hike prices this year
- Keep an eye on new "natural plastic," result
- Keep a close watch on sales of personal computers
- Keep an eye on memory chip deal that may affect future pricing
- Discount action on Internet taxation this year
- Beware of delivery problems with goods ordered via e-procurement
- Plan on Internet to become main source of new software in coming years
- Be aware that cargo insurance rates for truckers are rising and could eventually affect trucking rates
- Keep an eye on opposition to recently announced rail merger
- Electronics buyers: Lack of investment in semiconductor capacity may be ending
- Expect business-to-business e-commerce to explode
- If you want to know what to expect in purchasing over the next decade
- Expect truck driver shortage to worsen this year
- Be aware that EPA has sped up approval of hazardous-waste cleanup plans at industrial sites
- Is your MRO buying strategic--or do you just wing it?
- ECONOMY
- The macroeconomic outlook for 2000 just keeps getting rosier
- MARKETS
- The parent of Federal Express will extend the well-known FedEx name throughout most of the company
- Boeing delivered a record 620 planes last year
- General Motors expects business done on its TradeXchange business-to-business Web site for suppliers to grow to $50 billion this year
- The $11.2 billion mega-merger between industrial gas companies
- Machine tool sales in 1999 were the weakest of the decade
- TRANSACTION PRICES
- Transmeta Corp. has unveiled its Crusoe computer chip designed specifically for mobile computing applications
- Worldwide online travel sales will increase sixfold to $30 billion in 2001
- American railroads set records both for volume and traffic during 1999
- German chemical giants BASF, Bayer, and Hoechst plan to merge their textile dye businesses into a new company with annual sales of more than $1 billion
- Boeing plans to cut production of 757 and 767 passenger jets because of weakened demand
- PRICES
- The International Trade Commission has voted to revoke duties imposed on steel wire rope imports
- Contract prices for low-end dram will be volatile, but could decline gradually as the year progresses
- Spot-market prices for stainless steel sheet products have risen 13% over the past three months
- Buyers can expect casing and line pipe prices to rise another $20-$40/ton in first quarter 2000
- London Metal Exchange (LME) nickel prices will reach $9,000/tonne ($4/lb) by the end of first quarter 2000
- Polycarbonate producers appear to have pushed through 80% of a contract price hike proposed back in October
- Germanium market prices have dropped to $640/kilogram for 99.99% quality material from $700
- Buyers soon will see a $50/ton hike on linerboard and a $60/ton increase on corrugating medium
- Mini-mills are raising prices by $15/ton on a wide variety of merchant bar products, effective with March shipments
- Benchmark Brent crude oil is expected to average $21.50/barrel this year
- PURCHASING SOFTWARE NEWS
- RECYCLING RESOURCES
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
- BUYING PLANS/PRICE EXPECTATIONS
- LEADTIMES
- FORECASTS
- Retail wars will cap tags
- Wages keep climbing
- Consumers stay sanguine
- STRATEGIC COST INSIGHTS
- NO HEADLINE
- Plastic pipe margins expand
- TRANSPORTATION
- NEWS
- UPS Logistics Group to acquire Finon Sofecome
- Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Canadian National Railway to merge
- Consolidated Delivery, Dispatch Management suspend merger talks
- Rollins Truck Leasing Corp. acquires UPS Truck Leasing
- Eagle to acquire Fastair Cargo Systems Ltd.
- SMALL-PACKAGE EXPRESS
- Small-package express weathers Internet challenge
- TRANSPORTATION NEWS
- LTL rates expected to creep up in 2000
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