Purchasing - April 7, 2005
Features
Examining True Costs
A variety of increasing costs are contributing to sky-high truckload and LTL rates in the trucking industry. Costs such as high fuel tags, for example, are being passed on to shippers through indexed surcharges. In addition, new federal government driver regulations are creating productivity concerns and increasing driver recruitment and retention costs.
- CPI Edition
- Adhesives and Sealants
- Purchasing shakes off five years of hibernation
- Chemforecast
- No slowdown yet in transactional increases
- Producers' cost woes keep rates on the rise
- Exclusive Business Data
- Prices give suppliers profits
- Global Suppliers
- Taking the risk out of Asian sourcing
- Departments
- Buylines
- Bechtel demystifies the e-auction process
- Who's in the News
- Intel goes global with indirect buying strategy
- Who's got strategic sourcing on the brain?
- Oil's impact on resin pricing a major concern
- Poll finds top buying groups spend more on technology
- Industry Kudos
- Inside Purchasing
- Editorial: It's what's inside that counts
- Logistics
- What's Hot in Logistics
- News Briefs — April 7, 2005
- The Latest in RFID News
- Shippers, carriers turn eyes toward Washington
- MRO
- SBC Services enhances procure-to-pay process
- What's Hot in MRO/Distribution News
- Indirect sourcing pros share best practices
- Readers Sound Off
- Staffing an international procurement office
- Features
- Purchasing Cards
- P-cards begin to fulfill promise
- Spend Strategies
- Dana takes charge of spend
- Supplier Relations
- Detroit needs a different driver
- Metals
- What's Hot in Metals
- Copper Products
- Lots of new uses for one of the oldest industrial metals
- Copper and Brass
- Prices outweigh all other buyer concerns
- Exclusive Business Data
- Stocks slowing demand growth?
- Steel Outlook 2005
- Prices won't rebound to earlier heights
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