Purchasing - February 7, 2002

The automotive industry is moving its entire supply chain online at a faster rate than many other industries. The movement has been driven, in part, by the rapid adoption and growth of the Covisint online supplier exchange. But Covisint isn't the only game in town and at least one major carmaker is out to prove that it can go it alone.

• CPI Edition
• Buyers
• Worm may be turning for CPI
• Chemforecast
• Expect more weakness
• Informex
• Specialty chemical makers gear up for the Big Show
• Respirators
• CPI safety buyers can breathe easy

• Departments
• Buylines
• Procurement helps move Boeing to Chicago on time
• Layoffs hit hardest at low end of purchasing job mart
• Enron's collapse won't kill power restructuring
• Deere's new Web system tracks and forecasts product costs
• Digitalized contracts
• Letters
• Leadtimes
• Signs point to trend shift
• Logistics
• What's Hot
• Shippers and rail carriers build bridges
• News
• Product Update
• Price hikes for 2002 won't stick until upturn
• Supply Insights
• It's time to negotiate

• Features
• CPI Edition
• Supplier performance is more important than ever

• Metals
• Chips
• Who's News
• What's Hot
• Aluminum
• Purchasing hit rock bottom in December
• Automotive Metals
• Buyers expand sourcing of high-strength steels
• Copper
• No quick upswing seen in end-user purchasing
• Exclusive Business data
• Downturn lives on as demand tumbles
• Stainless Steel Market
• Mills hope trade action will spark price push
• Steel
• Buyers sourced less tonnage from metal centers
• Steel Trade Wars
• Nations agree tentatively to reduce global capacity
• Titanium
• Market prices tumble; more dips seen as year advances

• News
• Chemical Transaction Prices
• Resins continue to deteriorate
• Chemical Transaction Prices
• ISPI edges up
• Economy
• How Supply Managers See Business
• Supply
• What's Happening in Markets
• Tip Sheet
• Key Metrics and Supply Alert
• Transaction Prices
• Transaction Prices