Purchasing - March 2, 2006
Features
Citizens Banking cashes in on spend management
It's a bank's job to help customers save their money. So it only makes sense that a strategic sourcing organization at a bank should have particular expertise. At least that's the thinking Anders Lillevik brought when he joined Citizens Banking Corp. in Flint, Mich. in 2004. Today Lillevik is the vice president and director of corporate procurement at Citizens.
- Chemicals Edition
- Elements
- Chem Forecast: Ammonia
- Buyers face higher rates, less domestic supplies
- Distribution
- Services cut buyers' costs
- Enzymes
- Enzyme demand increases, supply remains balanced
- Market Update
- Energy-cost hikes hit plastics, industry says
- Features
- Blaze a new trail
- Best Practices in the Midmarket
- Sourcing expands its footprint
- MRO Report
- Buyers break the mold
- OEM Buying
- Regulations focus sourcing
- Product Lifecycle Management
- PLM boosts buyers' product development role
- Supply Chain Solutions
- On-demand brings spend control to the masses
- Markets
- Logistics
- Bad news for buyers: rates to remain high, capacity low
- Shippers see tighter capacity, higher rates continuing
- Detours
- MRO + Distribution
- Grainger announces biggest product expansion in its history
- Ocean
- TSA carriers move to monthly surcharge adjustments
- Packaging
- Global anti-pest mandate is changing the buy
- MeadWestvaco opens Packaging Innovation Center
- New top-sheet dispenser provides water-tight protection
- Survey Poll Results
- MRO buyers expand influence
- Metals
- Metal Chips
- Copper and Brass Market
- Prices remain high from supply disruptions
- Sourcing Overseas
- China isn't a great source for primary metals
- News
- Economy + Supply
- 30-day buying plans
- Leadtime Report
- Leadtime Report
- Prices
- Buyers' 90-day price expectations
- News, Markets and Departments
- CPO Views
- Are you responsible enough?
- My Turn
- From 'green' to greenbacks
- Players
- Players: Leslie Campbell, VP of worldwide procurement, Dell
- Scale Up: Big Ideas in the Middle Market
- Focus is on total cost of ownership
- Your Turn
- Women's salaries hung out to dry
- Trends
- Briefs
- Environmental Purchasing
- Revenue stream flows from recycling efforts
- Global Sourcing
- OEMs leverage supplier fairs in China
- Steel Trade Wars
- Mills fret imports, despite 2005 dip
- The CEO and the Supply Chain
- Getting noticed for the right reasons
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