Purchasing - September 1, 2005

Suppliers to Rockwell Collins do more than just provide goods and services to the aerospace systems company. Rather, Rockwell Collins looks to its key suppliers to suggest new innovative supply chain ideas to help it operate more efficiently. Ideas are discussed at the OEM's Supplier Alliance Advisory Council (SAAC) meetings.

• CPI Edition
• Capacity Increases
• Fortron Industries to double PPS plant
• Chemforecast: Solvents
• Balanced market poised for further price hikes
• China
• Energy-consuming chemical investment is high
• Exclusive Business Data
• Makers bullish, buyers cautious
• Pricing News
• Natural rubber at record highs
• Sourcing Strategies
• TI leverages its spend for semicon chemicals
• Henkel studies buying costs for raw materials

• Departments
• Buylines
• Nine tips for low-cost country sourcing
• Project management strategies for procurement
• Who's got strategic sourcing on the brain?
• Who's News
• Inside Purchasing
• Anatomy of a winner
• Logistics
• RFP for Ph. D
• Briefs
• RFID News
• What's Hot
• MRO
• Grainger takes new look at unplanned MRO purchases
• What's Hot
• Briefs
• Rants and Ravings
• Rants and Ravings

• Features
• 2005 Medal of Excellence
• Professional Development: Buyers have scorecards too
• Procure-To-Pay: Automation frees time for strategic activities
• Lean, but not mean, Rockwell Collins excels
• Strategic Sourcing: Outsourcing delivers reliability, savings
• Innovation: Technology breeds improved communication
• Product Development: Material and supply joins design teams
• Professional Development
• More pencils, books forecast in supply chain

• Metals
• What's Hot
• More metals at Purchasing.com
• Aluminum
• Beverage-can recycling perks up
• CPO Interview
• Gibraltar's Wagner trims metal supply chain
• Copper
• Prices keep rising on speculation that supply won't meet demand
• Nickel
• 2007 price forecasts are lower
• Risk Management
• Metals exchanges want buyers to use futures to hedge
• Steel
• Former Qualitech plant has expanded its product line
• Pilot mill in Michigan aims to make metal cheaper, cleaner
• Steel Trade
• U.S. mills file against imports of Chinese pipe

• News
• Economy
• How Supply Managers See Business
• Prices
• Factors Affecting Product Cost
• Supply
• What's Happening in Markets
• Tip Sheet
• Key Metrics and Supply Alert