Purchasing - April 6, 2006

To capitalize on an emerging market that will be booming in a few years, Pratt & Whitney Canada needs to deliver a jet engine every four hours—a feat that would be impossible without the input of its supply base.

• CA's procurement overhaul focuses on global expertise
• Scale Up: Big Ideas in the Middle Market
• Collaboration with internal customers builds confidence

• Chemicals Edition
• Elements
• Chemforecast
• Sodium bicarb supply strong, tags level with producer costs
• Global Sourcing
• Higher energy costs driving more chem capacity to China
• Industrial Gases
• Prices, supply getting more stable
• Polypropylene
• Prices will fluctuate until feedstock supply and resin demand balance

• Features
• Economic Update
• Buyers, economists agree: Signs of better business abound
• Supplier Chain Solutions
• SRM + E-AUCTIONS: Tools in the toolbox
• Trucking Update
• LTL buyers face an uphill battle

• Markets
• Logistics
• BNSF adds capacity, ends "free time"
• Detours
• Asian demand drives air freight volumes, capacity expansions
• Rail capacity growing... in India
• MRO+Distribution
• Purchasing honors MRO buyers with annual award
• More ammunition for outsourcing MRO
• Packaging
• Wrappings
• New PE film from Denmark
• Strong demand, tight supply keep prices elevated
• New drugs, regulations to boost buying of high-barrier packages
• Products
• Products

• Metals
• OCTG News
• Aluminum Sheet
• Crystal ball is cloudy
• Quanex mulls options for Nichols
• Buying Aluminum
• High-grade sheet keeps an American icon bright and shiny
• Copper
• China to expand smelting capacity
• Steel Tube Market
• Supply of oil country tubular goods may tighten this year
• World Aluminum
• Analysts see high-flying ingot prices well into '07

• News
• Economy + Supply
• 30-day buying plans
• Leadtime Report
• Leadtime Report
• Prices
• Buyers' 90-day price expectations

• News, Markets and Departments
• CPO Views
• How to mold the next leaders
• My Turn
• The next generation
• Players
• John Miller, vice president of purchasing at Nissan
• Your Turn
• Perils of a free-market economy

• Trends
• Purchasing executives on the move...
• Corrections:
• Careers
• Nelson announces retirement, Delphi names Johnson new VP
• Chemforecast
• Pigments and dyes buyers have more choices, but at higher prices
• Education
• Updated Northeastern MBA program includes supply chain track
• Outsourcing Best Practices
• Chevron leverages buyers in outsourcing decisions
• Supply Chain Technology
• SCM software market enters consolidation phase