Purchasing - January 13, 2005
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Prices to ease from highs
What happens when steel-bar buyers awake from hibernation? In the 2004 marketplace, it was a shortage of prompt supply—and sky-high sales prices. What's ahead for 2005? Better balance in supply/demand fundamentals are forecast, which should bring about a continual—albeit gradual—slippage in transaction prices.
- CPI Edition
- Chemicals
- A bullish outlook for demand
- China Outsourcing
- Are you underestimating the complexity of China trade?
- Exclusive Business Data
- Tight supply will increase PVC, VCM prices
- Informex Preview
- Looking for an edge
- Petrochemical Feedstocks
- Disadvantage: chemical buyers
- Soaps and Detergents
- Surfactants demand, pricing up in 2005
- Surfacant Pricing News
- Sourcing in China
- Buyers not enamored with available supply sources
- Who's Who
- Supply chain's Top 25
- Departments
- Buylines
- Kudos
- Finding the needle in a data-heavy haystack
- Who's got strategic sourcing on the brain?
- Estimating excellence
- Commodities crunch!
- Inside Purchasing
- Balancing the equation
- Logistics
- Briefs
- Rough road ahead for shippers
- RFID News
- What's Hot
- MRO/Distribution
- What's Hot
- Briefs
- More bang for its buck
- Office Technologies
- Demand for color MFPs perks up year-end sales
- Readers Sound Off
- The new economics of partnering
- Electronics and Technology News
- What's Hot
- Capacitor Outlook
- Enough demand to drive growth
- Connector Preview
- Price erosion, no shortages, plentiful supply
- Digital Signal Processors Outlook
- Lower prices, lower growth
- EMS Market
- Expect double-digit growth — again
- Electronics Outlook
- A soft landing
- Lead Free
- Lead-free conversion update
- Features
- Global Sourcing
- Buyers look toward China—but with a degree of caution
- Strategy
- Partnering for success
- Metals
- What's Hot
- Exclusive Business Data
- Bush and buyers differ on economy
- Mini-Mills
- Steel scrap prices still troublesome
- Russian, Ukraine tariffs: Trade-distorting practices?
- Stainless Scrap
- Expect high prices to continue through 2005
- News
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