Purchasing - July 17, 2003

It's easy to see why the DRAM industry has declined since the mid 1990s. The industry has always been tied to the computer industry. When PC sales were growing 20% per year, DRAM manufacturers' sales also grew. In fact, DRAM sales grew at an even higher rate because memory content per system increased each year.

• CPI Edition
• What's hot in plastics
• Bulk Packaging
• Slow growth ahead despite fewer economic jitters
• Chemforecast
• Tags rebound as producers but the brake on supplies
• Chemical Transaction Prices
• Polymers dip, but the trend may not last long
• Cost Management
• Bayer builds database for measuring real cost savings
• Exclusive Business Data
• Margins suffer
• Food and Beverage Report
• Managing Risk at Necco
• MRO Sourcing Strategy
• Standard global buy process cuts costs at NOVA Chemicals

• Departments
• Buylines
• Stop tweaking the process, start thinking strategic
• How do offshore suppliers treat workers? Better find out
• Brown outlines Ford's steps to supplier success under TVM
• Correction
• High natural gas prices create downstream woes
• MRO buyer conference heads to New Orleans
• Who's News
• Electronics Leadtimes
• Electronics leadtimes stretch
• Electronics and Technology News
• Resistor networks market to grow despite falling tags
• China is tops in electronic exports to the U.S.
• Exide Technologies accelerates supply chain
• SIA says recovery is under way
• Catalog distributors weather the downturn
• Some tags rise
• Matsushita mulls new plasma plant
• Inside Purchasing
• Lucent–one year later
• Logistics
• What's Hot
• The Harley Triangle: Where freight inefficiency disappears
• 3PL performance metrics: Michelin keeps it simple
• Office Technologies
• With new postage meters buyers can stamp out costs
• Product Update
• Equipment sales are flat, but innovations are well defined
• Software News
• Software Buyers Guide: Software reveals buying from too many suppliers
• Software Buyer's Guide: Software keeps an eye on purchasing (company listing)

• Features
• Strategic Sourcing
• Leggett & Platt sees sourcing savings

• Metals
• What's Hot
• Acquisition News
• Reliance buys Precision Strip
• Dow Corning buys silicon metal firm
• Nonferrous center changes hands
• Aluminum
• Boeing flies to composites
• Copper
• Stockpiles will take 3-4 years to erode
• Exclusive Business Data
• Metalworking is somewhat shaky
• Metals Midyear Scorecard
• Where we are on the leaderboard
• Nickel
• Norilsk metal boosts nickel supply
• Quality
• Steelmaker, GM end fight
• Stainless Steel
• Tale of two markets: Purchasing is active everywhere but U.S.
• Technology
• Hoeganaes develops new ferrous material
• Tool Steel Market
• Buyers now source fewer tons than in the go-go years

• News
• Economy
• How Supply Managers See Business
• Prices
• Factors Affecting Product Cost
• Tip Sheet
• Key Metrics and Supply Alert
• Transaction Price Forecasts
• Transaction Price Forecasts
• Transaction Prices
• Energy-driven index is highest ever