Purchasing - May 18, 2006
Features
Industry in Infancy
Like many global electronics companies, IBM buys a lot of production materials in China. Big Blue spends millions of dollars each year on bare printed circuit boards, board assemblies, chassis, power supplies and thermal management devices. However, IBM buys very few semiconductors in China. The reason is the semiconductor products that IBM needs are not available in China.
- Electronics and Technology Edition
- Distribution
- Distributors get small margins in China
- Electronics Leadtimes
- Resistors spike
- Electronics Trends
- Business Intelligence
- Chip equipment market to exceed forecast
- Expect non-RoHS resistor tags to rise
- To save more, distribute more cards, study says
- Savings require close review
- NAND flash prices drop
- Power transistors rebound
- Final result: Chip sales grew 5.7%
- Consumer electronics slows down
- Features
- Counterfeiting
- Watch out for bogus RoHS parts
- World Tour
- DOs and DON'Ts of doing business in China
- News and Departments
- Economy + Supply
- Modest employment costs
- Calling all Opteron buyers
- Energy is the big cost
- New home sales off
- Phone-parts eyed
- Intel to cut spending
- GDP rebound is brisk
- Investment is steady
- Buyers say hig-tech activity remains erratic
- Consumers confident
- Solar panels tight
- IBM has new mainframe
- Durables jump
- Microsoft buys Chinese
- Logistics
- Strong demand, service concerns continue
- Detours
- Business Intelligence
- Diesel fuel forecast revised
- Best-kept secrets for reducing LTL costs
- My Turn
- Not ready for prime time—yet
- Office
- Office Briefs
- Manufacturers meet to help BLI with testing, reporting
- Xerox adds MFPs that help control color costs
- Business Intelligence
- Purchasing publishes new book on MRO and indirect sourcing
- Players
- Humberto Ocampo, indirect materials manager, Costa Rica, Intel
- Prices
- Disk drives are sliding
- Prices
- Tantalum capacitors are sliding toward new low
- EMS prices may dip
- Leaded resistors rising
- Components will drop
- Gold at 25-year high
- DDR2 drives Infineon
- DRAM prices will slip
- MLCCS are rising
- Inflation concerns fed
- NAND heads south
- On boss sees flat prices
- Scale Up
- Centralization streamlines purchasing
- Strategies + Tactics
- Ultra tells suppliers quality is critical
- Your Turn
- Equal pay for equal work
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