Purchasing - April 6, 2000

The majority (60%) of metals buyers polled in March expect to increase their purchasing activity in the second and third quarters, which reflects the high level of optimism (76%) expressed about this year's manufacturing economy.

• AUTOMOTIVE/OEM
• NEWS
• Cessna uses Baldrige process to identify best suppliers
• BRIEFS

• BUYING IN THE OEM
• APPLIANCE MANUFACTURING
• How Electrolux takes cost out of the chain

• BUYLINES
• MARKET REPORT: STAINLESS STEEL
• Big demand boom pushes stainless prices skyward
• PURCHASING SURVEY
• Purchasing builds preferred supplier lists
• REGULATION WATCH
• Industry battles ergonomics and diesel fuel regulations
• STANDARDS UPDATE
• Imminent ISO 9000 revisions are likely to please buyers

• CPI EDITION
• CHEMICAL TRANSACTION PRICES
• CHEMICAL TRANSACTION PRICES
• BUYER'S NEWS
• Buyers want service, pipe systems selection
• Specialized pharmaceuticals lead market growth
• corporate changes
• Buyers seek new products, new features
• Buyers expect higher prices, increased demand
• Price Changes
• CHEMICAL TRANSACTION PRICES
• Prices continue to rise
• chemforecast
• Strong demand boosts prices

• INSIDE PURCHASING
• What the Internet can't do

• METALS
• NEWS
• Uncle rejects tariffs for cold-rolled steel sheet imports
• Web promises greater price transparency in steel mart
• Justice probe of Reynolds, Alcoa deal looks at alumina
• CHIPS
• Japan, EU prod WTO for reaction to U.S. steel duties
• Why vanadium steels cost more
• Justice OKs drum-makers'joint steel buying venture
• Some analysts declare end to the U.S. steel import crisis
• steel sheet report
• Suppliers, buyers fight over pricing

• PRODUCT UPDATE
• industrial lubricants
• Prices soar with crude oil
• power transmission products
• Demand expected to recover

• PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
• HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR COMPANY

• PURCHASING HOTLINE
• PURCHASING HOTLINE
• PURCHASING HOTLINE
• PURCHASING HOTLINE
• PURCHASING HOTLINE
• PURCHASING HOTLINE

• RECYCLING RESOURCES
• RECYCLING RESOURCES

• SUPPLY INSIGHTS
• FORECASTS
• SUPPLY INSIGHTS
• STRATEGIC COST INSIGHTS
• Paint buyers beware

• TRANSPORTATION
• Supply chain software moves to the Web
• NEWS
• Eastbound shipping rates poised to rise thanks to trans-Pacific agreement
• BRIEFS

• TRUCKING REPORT
• ROUGH ROAD AHEAD FOR TRUCKERS

• cpi edition
• CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING
• Time and cost push outsourcing boom
• SPECIALTY/FINE CHEMICALS
• Competition keeps prices low in maturing market

• metals
• recycling resources
• Scrap metals are critical to industrial supply