Purchasing - September 4, 2003
Features
Cessna Soars
Integrated supply chain management has become a way of life at Cessna Aircraft Co., Wichita, Kan. As recently as 1997, the aircraft manufacturer had little strategic supply chain process. Relationships with suppliers were adversarial (except in engines and avionics) and it showed: Contract prices rose 3% per year, incoming quality was running at 50,000 parts per million (ppm) and on-time delive...
- CPI Edition
- Summer slows buying activity; prices are flat
- Case Study: H.B. Fuller
- Adhesives maker deploys e-auctions across the globe
- Chemforecast
- Producers weigh further price hikes
- Chemicals Distribution
- Partnering pays off
- Commodity Strategy
- Buyers miss big opportunities to save on plastic resins spend
- E-Commerce
- Silicone e-market outlines product expansion plans
- Exclusive Business Data
- Manufacturing goes to China
- Fine Chemicals
- Novartis revamps strategic sourcing to meet challenges
- Departments
- Buylines
- Buying on price alone can lead to high operating costs
- ...while sellers have trouble recouping high costs
- EVA measures competitiveness
- Soft auto, high-tech use hurts service center sales
- Study puts total transactions under $10K at $456 billion
- Who's News
- Corrections
- LME launches probe into spot, futures trading
- Buyers encounter scattered supply shortfalls...
- Howard Univ. will convene first Black executive summit
- Some unsettling questions
- Inside Purchasing
- Cessna wins 2003 Medal of Excellence
- Leadtimes
- Leadtime stretching trend slows
- Logistics
- Maximizing value of outsource partners requires new skills
- What's Hot
- Yellow-Roadway merger will affect LTL pricing
- Broader advanced shipment regulations proposed
- Professional Profile
- Harley Davidson Motor Company
- Features
- Purchasing White Paper
- Supply Chain Management: What is it?
- Metals
- What's Hot
- MRO buyers take the field
- Exclusive business data
- Metalworking in summer hiatus
- Steel Technology Report
- Mills are eliminating hindrances to quality
- Steel Trade Wars
- U.S. appeal stretches out Section 201 tariffs
- News
- Economy
- How supply managers see business
- Prices
- Factors affecting product cost
- Tip Sheet
- Key metrics and supply alert
- Transaction Prices
- Energy costs inflate materials
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