Purchasing - July 15, 2004

Effectively negotiating, executing and controlling agreements with suppliers is essential, yet many supply organizations do a poor job of managing contracts—and many purchasing applications fail to address the contract lifecycle. This failure leads to protracted contract development and negotiation cycles, improper contract approvals, limited contract visibility and control and an inabili...

• CPI Edition
• Bulk Packaging
• Emphasis is on new services, not products
• Chemicals
• What's new at Bayer? Wow. Glad you asked
• Rubber chemical price fixing alleged as probe widens
• High benzene tags will affect downstream products' costs
• Surging demand spurs price hikes
• Look for stiff fight on hikes
• Food and Beverage Report
• Managing better to reduce costs at Welch's

• Departments
• Buylines
• UCC fills gap when boilerplates conflict
• Supply chain software spending to increase
• Buyers: Supply starvation for resins, metals and others
• E-sourcing briefs
• Version *.*
• Kudos
• Price Fixing News
• Who's got strategic sourcing on the brain?
• New plants evaporate supply tightness and latest price spike
• Best Practices study defines top-performing purchasing
• Using metrics to optimize your supply chain
• Inflationary pressures are evident everywhere
• MSU study: Some companies can get too lean
• USC to establish supply management program
• Who's News
• Inside Purchasing
• It's a supply chain war
• Logistics
• Carrier/Provider News
• Increased carrier costs hit freight buyers hard
• Briefs
• What's Hot
• MRO
• Stanley uses hub and spoke strategy to manage MRO buy
• What's Hot
• ISM MRO Group adds more buyers to conference agenda
• Briefs
• Office Technologies
• What's new at NeoCon World's Trade Fair 2004
• Product Update
• Consider total cost, not just purchase price
• Reader's Sound Off
• Conduct your own fact-finding when locating an international procurement office

• Electronics and Technology News
• What's Hot
• Electronic Briefs
• DRAM Report
• The movement to DDR 2 begins
• Exclusive Electronics Business Report
• Business cools down; tags rise
• Independent Distribution
• Avoid buying counterfeit parts from China
• Memory
• Elpida samples DRAMs for CE equipment
• Mid-Year Update
• Chip industry to post record sales in 2004
• Nonvolatile Memory
• Prices stay weak for flash memory despite strong demand
• Passives
• Mobile market drives integrated passives growth
• Portable Power
• Toshiba unveils tiny fuel cells for portable equipment
• Processors
• Intel starts to ship 64-bit Xeons
• Semiconductors
• ASIC market grows steadily
• Spot Market Update
• Expect more synchronous DRAM price erosion
• Wireless ICS
• TI maintains top spot for handset semiconductors
• World Trade
• SIA wants China to eliminate value-added tax

• Features
• Aerospace metals
• Superalloys Fly High
• Purchasing and Logistics
• Purchasing and logistics: The history and current trends
• Radar View!
• Transportation buyers feel sting of fuel prices
• Software Buyers Guide
• Where did I put that agreement?
• Software helps purchasing manage contracts at Kohler

• Metals
• What's Hot
• Metals Chips
• Aluminum
• Globally, there are a lot of expansions going on
• Copper
• China to boost home-market metal supplies
• Rio Tinto exec sees continuing supply tightness
• Exclusive Business Data
• Business stalls; prices "still nuts"
• Letter From China
• Nurturing a hybrid capitalistic system is a tightrope act
• Metals Distribution
• Small franchises fill baskets of small-quantity buyers
• Platinum Group Metals
• Supply surplus will moderate spot price increases this year
• Silver
• Demand outlook and prices soften in the warmer weather
• Stainless Steel
• Non-traditional markets boost purchasing of high-priced metal

• News
• Economy
• How Supply Managers See Business
• Prices
• Factors Affecting Product Cost
• Tip Sheet
• Key Metrics and Supply Alert