Purchasing - February 3, 2005
Features
Amidst some concerns, modest growth ahead
Gazing into the crystal ball for 2005, economists at various Wall Street brokerage and investment houses agree: Although the stock market and economy will continue to prosper, it will be a somewhat uninspiring 2005. In fact, Robert Doll, president and chief investment officer at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in New York, is calling for economic growth to slow, interest rates and commodity p...
- CPI Edition
- Chemforecast
- Another upward price spiral
- Chemicals
- Chemical associations add new work group
- Exclusive Business Data
- Specialty firms in chem spotlight
- Free Trade Agreements
- Chemical buyers can reduce importing costs
- Departments
- Buylines
- When do you outsource?
- Who's got strategic sourcing on the brain?
- Is Sarbanes-Oxley a burden or blessing?
- No receipts, no purchase orders—but more value
- Who's News
- Analyzing the pros and cons of outsourcing to China
- Buyers a bit more upbeat
- Who's best at moving to low-cost sourcing?
- Inside Purchasing
- What's next for prices?
- Logistics
- Negotiating skills a must for logistics buyers
- Briefs
- Hours of Service rule for truck drivers being reviewed
- What's Hot
- Are you ignoring a chance to reduce import costs?
- RFID News: Report on spending shows a mixed outlook for the technology's future
- MRO
- What's Hot
- Less trash, more cash
- Briefs
- Product Update
- Efficiency, performance drive new products
- Double-digit recovery for fluid power
- Readers Sound Off
- Mega-sourcing: Do you have the skills?
- Strategic View
- Why center-led procurement is gaining in purchasing popularity
- Features
- Aluminum Sheet
- Another year of tight supply
- Currency Issues
- The Incredible Shrinking Dollar
- Strategic Sourcing
- Going global
- Metals
- What's Hot
- Exclusive Business Data
- Steel pricing outlook: down
- Nonferrous Metals
- Direction of market all depends on China
- Precious Metals
- Inflationary pressures persist
- Steel
- Analysts are downgrading spot market price outlook
- Mittal exploring alliance with Chinese steelmaker
- Tech Update
- AL gets fuel cell contract
- News
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