Purchasing - October 6, 2005
Features
The old idea returns again
One of the new, loud kids on the technology block is supplier relationship management (SRM). While it has been around for a while (PeopleSoft in its pre-Oracle days was an early promoter), interest in SRM is growing. Procurement organizations that have run several rounds of strategic sourcing need a way to sustain the gains and deal with cost pressures from energy markets and low-cost country ...
- CPI Edition
- Chemical shippers, carriers still feel the pinch
- Briefs
- Chemforecast
- Soaring costs look to continue for paint makers
- Chemforecast: Paints and Coatings
- Soaring costs look to continue for paint makers
- Exclusive Business Data
- No post-hurricane buying surge seen
- Specialty Chemicals
- Storm creates price and supply woes
- Departments
- Buylines
- Hold on: Prices have not peaked
- Long-term industry viability requires more consolidation
- Online education provider gets high marks from buyers
- New spend areas: A great adventure, or a problematic jungle?
- A close-up view of a long-term vision
- Software updates
- Who's got strategic sourcing on the brain?
- SAP provides a sounding board for purchasing pros
- Kudos
- Who's News
- Inside Purchasing
- Planning starts with suppliers
- Leadtimes
- Katrina pushes leadtimes way out
- Logistics
- Get creative!
- What's Hot
- RFID News
- MRO
- What's Hot
- A distributor adds value as it walks in door, says study
- MRO buyers plan regional meeting in the Ozarks
- Professional Profile
- PPG veteran puts purchasing on the map
- Rants and Ravings
- Rants & Ravings
- Features
- Partnering with MRO Suppliers
- Factory supplies team kicks it up a notch
- SRM Report
- Technology vs. process: Another round
- Special Report
- Battered, not broken, supply chain copes
- Analysts: Virtually all commodities are impacted
- Metals
- News
- Economy
- How Supply Managers See Business
- Prices
- Factors Effecting Product Cost
- Supply
- What's Happening in Markets
- Tip Sheet
- Key Metrics and Supply Alert
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