Purchasing - August 14, 2003

Today's purchasing professional is a little older, has been on the job slightly longer, and is responsible for spending a lot more dollars than a comparable buying pro of 10 years ago. Today's purchasing professional is much more likely to be a woman than 10 years ago—or even five years ago. He/she is more likely to have chosen purchasing as a career than in the past.

• CPI Edition
• Chemforecast
• Robust demand pushes tags
• Chemicals
• Nanomaterials start to mount the growth curve
• Feedstock and energy surge bumps up prices
• Growth stumbles

• Departments
• Buylines
• Buyers expect industrial commodity prices to slide
• LED market shines, but prices continue to drop
• Expect slow growth and 5-10% price erosion for relays
• Gene Richter: Leader, innovator, friend
• E-Procurement News
• Pharmaceutical firm uses unique funding model
• CAPS Research study defines staying power of e-auctions
• Purchasing survey shows e-sourcing adoption stalls
• Logistics
• New security rules may increase logistics costs
• What's Hot
• Demand forecasting rises on logisticians' radar screens
• Briefs
• Professional Profile
• Visteon

• Electronics and Technology News
• Consumer Electronics
• Digital drives Demand
• Electronics Leadtimes
• Few electronics leadtimes stretch

• Features
• Supplier Diversity
• Secrets of success

• Metals
• Business has flattened out
• Movers & Shakers in the nonferrous supply chain
• What's Hot
• Minor Metals
• Selenium sells at 13-year highs
• Steel
• Market gears up for inevitable trading in futures and options

• News
• Economy
• How supply managers see business
• Prices
• Factors affecting product cost
• Supply
• What's happening in markets

• Office Technologies
• What's Happening
• Multifunction Products
• Purchasing strategy now focuses on value of MFPs