Purchasing - June 17, 2004
Features
HP sources globally to cut costs
When a company spends $43 billion per year on production materials, it wants to make sure it is getting the best price, the highest quality and the best support possible from suppliers. That's why Hewlett-Packard over the last three years has launched initiatives to exercise greater control of its spend, consolidate its purchases where possible and identify and develop emerging sources of suppl...
- Departments
- What's Hot
- Briefs
- Inside Purchasing
- Don't outsource supplier relationships
- Logistics
- Freight buyers plug in from different angles
- Shippers find renewed interest in rail and intermodal shipping
- Office Technologies
- Demand rebounds from four-year weakness
- Product Update
- Product Update
- Electronics and Technology News
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- Capital Spending
- Intel to expand Irish plant
- Computer Boards
- Communications uses the most embedded boards
- Computers
- Chip market to grow 29% in 2004 as tags stabilize
- Replacements will drive PC shipments
- Displays
- Prices for computer LCD panels on the rise
- Electronics Leadtimes
- Leadtimes will stretch again
- Grassroots Report: Components
- Buyers pay higher prices; gripe about long leadtimes
- Integrated Circuits
- Chip revenue grows 32% in Q1 as demand rises
- Outsourcing
- EMS forecast gets upgraded
- Passives
- Expect soft prices for ceramic capacitors
- Semiconductors
- Standard logic prices stabilize for now; outlook cloudy
- The Spot Market
- DDR tags stabilize, SDRAM prices fall
- Features
- Information Technology
- Monitoring PC use leads to better decision making
- Semiconductors
- Top 20 chip companies to boost capital spending
- News
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