Purchasing - March 23, 2000
Features
What buyers look for in contract manufacturers
As the outsourcing trend in high-tech manufacturing industries continues to grow, purchasing professionals are being entrusted with the responsibility of finding the best contract manufacturing partners for their companies.
- BUYLINES
- JIT II PROGRAMS
- JIT II transportation and logistics
- MARKET REPORT: LINERBOARD
- Linerboard price increases bump down the supply chain
- MURRAY'S LAW
- How the law treats electronic contracts and e-commerce
- PURCHASING SURVEY
- CEOs get religion about supply management
- REGULATION WATCH
- Tough water discharge rules take aim at industry sources
- WASHINGTON PERSPECTIVE
- In bargaining, buyers should play the productivity card
- CAREER DEVELOPMENT
- COMPUTERS, PERIPHERALS AND SOFTWARE
- BRIEFS
- New notebooks feature Intel Mobile Pentium III
- PC SOURCING STRATEGIES
- Purchasing often leads PC buying teams
- PURCHASING NOTES
- Xerox voluntarily recalls recently introduced LJ4000 replacement toner cartridge
- It's not too early to start planning to attend PC Expo
- Corporate purchasing spends 2.9% of revenue on technology
- Hewlett-Packard cuts prices on select models
- International Computer Negotiations workshops on high-tech procurement
- Strategies for Non-Traditional Buying book published by Purchasing Magazine
- WORKING WITH IT
- Brunswick teams purchasing and IT for competitive edge
- CONTRACT MANUFACTURING
- ELECTRONICS PURCHASING
- Computer companies still buy the most semiconductors
- Intel to build 12-inch wafer fab
- Nanya Ships PC 133 DRAM
- ELECTRONICS PRICES
- Portable equipment drives power IC market
- E-COMMERCE
- Semiconductor industry posts nearly 19% growth in 1999
- PC shipments grew 22%; more growth forecast for 2000
- Intel, Sony team up
- TTI to carry entire AMP line
- Intel, Arrow begin RosettaNetbased electronic commerce
- More purchasers are routinely buying online
- Avnet unveils new division
- ELECTRONIC BUYING CONDITIONS
- Buyers report longer leadtimes, stable prices
- Board tags drop for buyers
- ELECTRONICS BRIEFS
- Bell carries ETC
- Dell ships PCs with RDRAM
- Flash deal announced
- MICROPROCESSORS
- Intel to ship 1-gigahertz processor in second half
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- Shorter leadtimes, lower prices for switches
- INSIDE PURCHASING
- JOB SCENE
- MRO/DISTRIBUTION
- OFFICE PRODUCTS AND BUSINESS SYSTEMS
- BRIEFS
- Toshiba creates Web site for corporate office buyers
- AXerox introduces four copiers for workgroups
- BUSINESS FORMS
- Outsourcing forms buying drastically reduces inventory
- OFFICE SUPPLIES DISTRIBUTION
- Office supplies distributors heed call for Web ordering
- PURCHASING NOTES
- Canon's CLC 2400 was awarded
- The Business Technology Association holds its annual conference
- Xerox is refocusing its strategy to capture future growth of the document business
- Corporate Express has completed its merger with Buhrmann NV, the parent company of BT Office Products
- Office Depot's wholly owned subsidiary, Viking Office Products, has launched a new completely retooled Web site
- PRODUCT UPDATE
- ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
- Prices to climb while demand softens
- HAND TOOLS
- Demand grows moderately, prices stay stable
- PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
- PURCHASING HOTLINE
- If you want to know what to expect in purchasing over the next decade
- Are you up to the competitive challenges of the electronics marketplace?
- Expect purchasing's influence in PC buying team to keep increasing
- Expect to pay more for SRAM this year
- Expect prices for printed circuit boards to rise slightly
- Plan to keep paying more to ship goods
- But don't expect to see industry exchanges operating too soon
- Get up to speed on the Internet
- Check out www.steelroads.com, new Web site for rail shippers
- Don't expect bill to pass that repeals ocean carriers' anti-trust immunity
- Expect to see more computers introduced like Hewlett-Packard's new HP e-Vectra
- Beware of "evergreen" clauses in contracts with information-technology suppliers
- Plan on paying less for long-distance calls starting July 1
- Look for network processor market to boom over next few years
- Don't expect most suppliers to be e-commerce capable for awhile
- Count on microprocessor prices to continue their fall.
- Don't expect high oil prices to cause inflation
- Want to be up-to-date on the latest in non-traditional purchasing? Get Purchasing's latest book
- Don't plan on memory chips prices staying low
- Plan on falling connector prices
- Switch prices will drop and leadtimes will shrink this year. Stiff competition among suppliers has caused prices to
- Look for more industry "exchanges" to form on the Web
- TRANSACTION PRICES
- ECONOMY
- Consumer confidence stumbled in February, falling to 141.8 (1985=100) from 144.7 in January
- Latest nabe outlook shows a distinct shift in thinking among professional prognosticators
- U.S. trade deficit, the only blemish on an otherwise healthy economy, surged to an all-time high of $271.3 billion in 1999
- Construction spending rose a surprising 2.7% in January to a record annual rate of $751.8 billion
- Commerce revised upward its fourth quarter real GDP growth estimate by a whopping 1.1 points
- Purchasing's Leadtime Index jumped 15 points between February and March
- MARKETS
- AMD and Intel are now shipping 1-gigahertz microprocessors
- Business-to-business e-commerce is hot, with analysts predicting it to be a $400 billion business this year
- Microsoft this summer will start shipping pocket versions of Excel, Outlook InBox, and Word for the Pocket PC
- Consolidation in office supplies distribution continues
- The number of North American cable modem subscribers surged to 1.8 million in 1999
- IBM has taken steps to expand into the growing business-to-business e-commerce sector
- Palm Inc. lays claim to a dominant 75% of the market for handheld products that connect people to the Web
- Texas Instruments remains king of the hill in digital signal processor
- Only 13% among 2.3 million U.S. small businesses currently can facilitate commerce using the Internet
- Dell Computer is the top workstation supplier in the world for 1999
- Companies soon will be outsourcing strategic and technical elements of their e-mail marketing initiatives
- Demand for semiconductors is now growing at double digits rates
- World sales of spin-processing equipment for wafer fabrication could rise by as much as 155% this year
- Flash memory card makers are expecting to be on allocation of devices for most of this year because of severe chip shortages
- Worldwide semiconductor sales reached $14.77 billion in January, a 32.9% increase from $11.11 billion in January 1999
- Outsourcing is not just for OEMs anymore
- The global marketplace for information appliances is expected to exceed 89 million units worth $17.8 billion in 2004
- Enterprise networking equipment makers have a huge appetite for connectors
- JetBlue Airways, a new discount carrier, is flying between New York, Buffalo and Fort Lauderdale
- PRICES
- Stable prices are expected for the LCD panels used in notebook computers
- Producers are proposing a $50/ton price hike on kraft packaging paper for second quarter
- Average sales price for wafers based on five-layer, 0.18-micron process technology will jump to $3,000 each by the third quarter from $2,800 now
- The prices paid index for manufacturing supplies shot up to a new five-year high in February
- The severe glut of silicon substrates for chip making is easing in some market segments, and prices for high-purity 200-mm wafers are rising
- Federal Express is adding another percentage point to its 3% fuel surcharge on most domestic and international shipments beginning April 1
- Look for Intel to cut microprocessor prices at least two more times this year
- Memory chip tags are declining
- Brand-name manufacturers have lowered computer keyboard prices because of sagging sales and rising imports of low-priced generic keyboards
- PURCHASING SOFTWARE NEWS
- SPECIAL INTERNET REPORT
- WEB PIONEER PROFILE
- Web sites for MRO buyers
- Web sites for buyers of energy
- Advance your career with Purchasing Online
- WEB PIONEER PROFILE
- A sampling of Web sites for electronics buyers
- Web sites for chemical buyers
- Web sites for buyers
- Web sites for contract manufacturing
- Web sites for buyers of transportation/ logistics services
- A sampling of metals Web sites
- Sites for buyers of office supplies, PCs & software
- WEB PIONEER PROFILE
- E-PROCUREMENT STRATEGIES
- BIG BUYERS jump on the Internet
- MRO STRATEGIES
- Texas Instruments reports success with buy-side system
- PRINTING SERVICES
- Web is changing basics of the print buy
- STRATEGIES
- Harley-Davidson hopes SiL'K will be smooth
- E-procurement system delivers lower costs--and more
- E-procurement at IBM: POs are just the beginning
- STRATEGIES-AUCTIONS
- A sampling of Web sites that feature auctions or reverse auctions
- Beyond the e-auction hype
- STRATEGIES-AUTOMOTIVE
- Suppliers worry about the trade-exchange 'squeeze'
- STRATERGIES
- How IBM does e-procurement
- STRATERGIES-AMERICAN EXPRESS
- Web's real potential lies beyond transaction
- SUPPLY MANAGEMENT IN 2010
- Experts see big future for e-procurement
- The future of e-procurement
- A day in the life of the WIRED supply manager
- TRANSPORTATION STRATEGIES
- New online service may help cut shipping rates
- e-PROCUREMENT NEWS
- Commerce One and Front Step Inc. team to offer solutions to midmarket
- Online chemical exchanges aim to sign industry giants
- Aspect partners with Semico Research to offer product lifecycle information
- Web site will focus on aerospace MRO parts
- E-business summit
- Supplybase introduces new online manufacturing marketplace
- OnDisplay offers free XML
- New company offers free online procurement
- U.S. Steel strikes deal with E-Steel
- Amherst combines technology with customer service
- Firstar Corp. selects PurchasingNet-SQL as e-procurement solution
- SupplierMarket and Open Applications Group partner to standardize RFQs in XML
- Researchers move to Internet for lab supplies
- Aspect and Commerce One partner up
- Intesa and Wiznet launch Latin American business to business portal
- Chase and Deloitte to form new online procurement company
- System providers prepare for the future of e-procurement
- B2B e-commerce will hit $7.29 trillion by 2004
- SupplierMarket.com partners with Surebridge Inc
- Online auctions save millions for Quaker Oats and SmithKline Beecham
- EqualFooting.com teams with Fastenal
- SUPPLY INSIGHTS
- LEADTIMES
- BUYING PLANS/PRICE EXPECTATIONS
- FORECASTS
- PMI shows world rebound
- Certain segments tighten
- Fed can't slow IP this year
- STRATEGIC COST INSIGHTS
- FP pump, motor tags surge
- TRANSPORTATION
- AIR FREIGHT REPORT
- Rates soar as fuel prices keep going up
- NEWS
- Professional Transportation Group reaches agreement with ATECH
- Roquette America seeks to reopen talks
- Rate hikes fuel rift between railroads, chemical manufacturers
- ESCO Transportation acquires Quantum
- USFreightways Corp., Transport Corp. terminate agreement
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