Purchasing - December 8, 2005

At long last, top management is recognizing the value of purchasing—by rewarding buyer performance with big fat bonuses. Results of Purchasing magazine's 25th annual salary survey show purchasing compensation—compensation and bonuses—soared 12% in 2005 to an average of $78,500. That jump comes in a year in which paychecks for most other professionals rose a mere 3% to 4%, if at all.

• CPI Edition
• Chemforecast: ABS
• Storms and costlier energy cut supplies, boost prices
• Chemicals Salary Survey 2005
• Paychecks are bigger, but not by much
• Supply Chain Colaboration
• Purchasing and R&D strive to find the right fit

• Departments
• Buylines
• The challenges of creating a global sourcing organization
• Compliance priority for '06
• Hackett report finds best procurement orgs see greater ROI
• Who's News
• Costs continue to challenge
• CPO Views
• Cost reduction just the start
• Inside Purchasing
• The road East
• Logistics
• Shippers identify 'must haves' on their wish list
• MRO
• HP's Connors to give NAPP event keynote
• MRO purchasers make less money than their colleagues
• Office Technologies
• Centralize, but give power to the people

• Electronics and Technology News
• What's Hot
• E-Sourcing
• Reverse auctions become more strategic for buyers
• Electronics Leadtimes
• Leadtimes are mixed
• Independent Distribution
• How to screen for bogus parts
• Semiconductors
• Expect standard cell chips to lead asic market growth

• Features
• Buying Green
• Buyers target energy bills
• More testing possible
• Regulations set stage for environmental action
• Supply Chain Manager of the Year
• The consensus builder

• Metals
• What's Hot
• Metals Chips
• Aluminum
• Airbus flies with Kaiser
• Novelis exits casting alloys in Europe
• Base Metals Outlook 2006
• Expect "volatile and nervous" markets
• Metal Parts
• Metalworking needs materials; supplies remain adequate
• Metals Salary Survey 2005
• Buyers bring home more in 2005
• Steel Trade Wars
• U.S. steel wire rod mills file unfair trade cases
• Japanese steelmakers claim victory in cold-rolled sheet
• Steel Trading
• LME still eyes steel futures
• World Steel
• World stainless production seen rising 6% in 2006

• 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