Purchasing - February 6, 2003
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Centralize!
Most procurement experts believe 15-20% of purchased materials and services can be saved (billions of dollars in a large company) by centralizing procurement and leveraging a far-flung corporation's buying power. Despite this expert opinion, backed by numerous examples, many medium and large companies maintain decentralized, splintered, uncoordinated procurement operations.
- CPI Edition
- Chemforecast
- Polymer switching can cut costs in key applications
- Chemical Transaction Prices
- Purchasing transaction price survey results
- Rising energy costs impact market prices
- Informex Highlights
- Fine chemical makers ready to network in the Big Easy
- Departments
- Buylines
- Intern programs provide low cost access to new talent
- Imports keep competition humming in motor mart
- Source abroad, but watch those logistics costs
- Tune in to supply management's best minds
- Buyers are cautious about economic prospects for 2003
- Purchasing publishes office tech book
- Reynolds leaves Sony Electronics for Adelphia
- International law trumps UCC for deals in 61 nations
- Inside Purchasing
- Ten commandmants of reverse auctions
- Leadtimes
- Leads signal production growth
- Logistics
- The Return of Rail: Shippers see carrier service improving
- Product Update
- Mixed automotive demand slows recovery
- Features
- Purchasing Cards
- Purchasing drives enhancements
- Strategic Sourcing
- Bayer's Rx: Innovation
- The Automotive Buy
- Suppliers: Friend or foe?
- Logistics
- Metals
- What's Hot
- Aluminum Sheet
- No big increase in orders, prices perceived for 2003
- Exclusive Business Data
- Activity not great, but will improve
- Gold
- Some mavens see planets aligned for price at $375/oz
- Metals Outlook 2003
- No inflationary forces in the marketplace
- Steel
- Industry consolidation offers few certainties
- Processing distributors keep consolidating ownerships
- Superalloys
- Demand decline from aerospace weakens prices
- News
- Economy
- How Supply Managers See Business
- Prices
- Factors Affecting Product Cost
- Supply
- What's Happening in Markets
- Tip Sheet
- Key Metrics and Supply Alert
- Transaction Prices
- Energy costs force index higher
- Purchasing transaction price survey results
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