Purchasing - January 18, 2007
Features
DRAM supply will be tight while other components will be adequate
Buyers can expect weaker prices and stable leadtimes in 2007 for most electronic components including semiconductors, passives and connectors as global demand for end equipment slows down and supply and demand remains balanced for much for most components.
- Chemicals
- Web Exclusive
- Buyers looking into natural ingredients to reduce costs
- Chemicals Edition
- Electronics and Technology Edition
- Electronics Leadtimes
- Leadtimes roll back
- Electronics Trends
- Cell phones boost image sensor demand
- Manufacturing moves to Chennai
- Arrow looks to India for growth
- Business Intelligence - Business condition; purchase orders; semiconductor prices
- It's not just about SMT anymore
- Digi-Key inks new agreements
- Vista will mean higher BOM cost
- Chip capital spending rises
- Features
- Supply Chain Strategy
- Inventory Control: Treat the cause, not the symptom
- What to look for in 2007
- 2007: What to look for
- What to look for in 2007: Chemicals
- Chemical prices will stabilize due to market slowdown
- Demand for chemicals will slow in 2007
- What to look for in 2007: Electronics
- Prices for most electronic components will fall in 2007
- What to look for in 2007: Energy
- Energy demand remains huge and growing
- Energy prices to drop slightly in 2007
- What to look for in 2007: Metals
- Metals prices will drop 10% this year
- Supply of copper, steel and aluminum in surplus
- Metals
- Business Intelligence - Nonferrous cost dip; gain in stainless steel output
- Metals Chips
- Aluminum
- Statoil deal will spin Hydro into a major supplier
- Commodities
- In 2006, even the lows were high
- Copper
- Speculators bet on long-term inflation
- Galvanized Steel
- U.S. trade panel ends tariffs on imports of coated sheet
- Low-Cost Country Sourcing
- Look closely before buying primary metal products offshore
- Scrap
- Smorgon buys Maine processor
- Service Centers
- Reliance Steel buys Encore of Canada
- Steel
- Innovative micro mill for rebarset for the Phoenix area
- Chinese ministers want firms to boost high-valued exports
- Mexico’s steel consumption seen soaring
- Lone Star to build large-diameter pipe mill
- Zinc
- Price inflation won't be dulled
- News and Departments
- Economy + Supply
- India will be big chipmaker
- TTI Acquired
- Port security Will cost
- IP sells off two units
- 3Q GDP slows
- Tooling spend picks up in early 2007
- Butadiene demand to drop
- Logistics
- Arrow Electronics gains visibility through freight payment data
- Business Intelligence - Average ground increase; overcapacity in truckload market
- Logistics market will give buyers a breather in 2007
- MRO + Distribution
- 2007 brings lower prices, and innovations from distributors
- Business Intelligence - Highest average salary; strong sales in 2007
- My Turn
- And now, from our Commodities Council...
- Office
- Equipment more affordable, supply prices will be volatile
- Business Intelligence - Office equipment revenues; testing Windows Vista
- Prices
- Rail rates will roll
- Iron ore contracts set
- Further chip price erosion
- Acetic acid prices may stay up
- Energy, machinery remain top buyer concerns
- SDRAM tags fall
- Coking coal prices may drop
- Silver hits Kodak
- Rubber will bounce back
- Natgas up on capacity
- Housing DRAGS copper tags
- Producer price index soars
- Dow hikes PE prices
- Scale Up: Big Ideas in the Middle Market
- Supply chain management is key to meeting requirements of demanding customers
- Trends
- Business Intelligence - Business condition; Aberdeen CPO agenda
- Tier-one auto supplier targets low-cost regions
- Team-based buying strategytakes off in indirect materials
- Your Turn
- Copper quality quandaries
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