Purchasing - May 6, 2004
Features
Changing rules are a puzzle
How the problems of a few distributors affect the industry and those who buy through distribution is the subject of this year's report. The three-part story addresses the relationships that are changing the distribution business, how purchasers view the performance of their distributors and how those charged with running the business intend to meet distribution's future needs.
- CPI Edition
- Better Buying: Plastics
- 11 tips to buy plastics better
- Chemical Distribution 2004
- The Top 100 pull out of the doldrums
- Chemicals
- Last hurrah for chemical prices?
- Sagging margins will spur higher rates
- Departments
- Buylines
- Buyers take keener interest in capital goods spending
- High-tech giant pushes e-sourcing across business units
- Ariba to acquire Softface
- Price fixing news
- What the updated UCC means to you
- Will the specter of today's strategy haunt the buyers of tomorrow?
- Who's news
- Version *.*
- Kudos
- Production expands to accommodate overdue rise in orders
- Inside Purchasing
- Distributors: Times are changing
- Leadtimes
- Leadtime Report
- Logistics
- What's Hot
- Briefs
- Academic programs prepare the logisticians of tomorrow
- MRO
- Supply chain to gain from operational improvements
- Catalog allows utilities to 'fish in a stocked pond'
- What's Hot
- Professional Profile
- Professional Profile: Shelley Stewart, Jr.,Vice President, Supply Chain, Tyco International
- Features
- Winning Compliance
- Sun shines by combining two supplier strategies
- Metals
- What's Hot
- Metals Chips
- China
- Nonferrous metals manufacturing jumps 19%
- Exclusive Business Data
- Are steel mills price gouging?
- Metals Distribution
- Rebuilding relationships?
- Nonferrous Metals
- LME warehouses emptied by unexpected China demand
- Steel Trade Wars
- Mill-consumer warfare over steel import tariffs persists
- Top 100 Metals Service Centers
- Signs of a business recovery
- News
- Prices
- Factors Affecting Product Cost
- Supply
- What's Happening in Markets
- Tip Sheet
- Key Metrics and Supply Alert
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