Purchasing - March 1, 2007
Features
How to Analyze the Supply Market
Strategic sourcing is at the heart of the purchasing function. Yes, there are plenty of other important skills that purchasing professionals must possess, but analyzing the supplier market, identifying potential suppliers to work with, deciding how you'll work with them, planning your negotiations strategy, integrating suppliers into your business and monitoring their performance are absolutely...
- Chemicals Edition
- Business Intelligence- Demand growth for mixed xylenes through 2009 (in metric tons); and Buyers reporting price increases in inorganic chemicals
- Global Sourcing News
- Chemforecast
- Biofuels, pharma markets spur increased enzyme demand
- Chemical Distribution
- Distributors take on global sourcing with a customer focus
- Engineered Polymers
- Collaboration with polymer suppliers nets improvements
- Industry News
- Dow to change focus, expand MDI capacity
- Market Update
- Buyers at detergent makers leverage natural ingredients to reduce costs
- Features
- MRO Buying Report
- MRO suppliers help uncover hidden factory
- Suppliers have interest in improving the business
- MRO strategy steering teams share forecasts
- The bucks stop at MRO
- Software Report
- Basics of the software buy
- Avoid a mess, clean your data
- 5 'musts' for justifying IT budgets
- PLM gets buyers under the hood
- Strategic Sourcing
- Composites bring Boeing's buyers, engineers and parts suppliers closer
- Metals
- News and Departments
- Economy + Supply
- Appliance Outlook Slows
- Inventories Are Rising
- Economy + Supply
- Honda Plans Small Jets
- 2006 GDP Up 3.4%
- LNG Imports Will Increase
- Slow Growth Predicted
- CEA: Short-term Is Bright
- Building Goods Demand Off
- China May Cut Tin Exports
- Housing Could Weaken
- The Newest Blackberry
- Chile Could Up Copper
- Grid May Lack Power
- Business Spending Slows
- Consumer Index Up
- Leadtime Report
- Linerboard leads have plateaued
- Molded plastics stuck in neutral
- Titanium leadtimes fly high
- Nylon leadtimes are trending down
- Light structurals are in excess
- Ethylene is a just a little tighter
- Electrogalvanized is easy to get
- Leadtime Report
- Logistics
- Swift Transportation agrees to buyout offer from founder
- Business Intelligence-Forecasted average diesel price in 2007; Number of Boeing 767 freighters ordered by UPS and Truckers reporting reduced congestion at West Coast ports
- Air cargo to triple globally by 2025, price-fixing suit filed
- STB issues fuel surcharge ruling for railroads
- Truckload capacity expands, shippers reap the benefits
- Detours
- Pamida Stores looks to truckload carrier for transition help
- MRO + Distribution
- MRO purchasing pros demand more personal buying experience
- Grainger publishes new catalog with more than 138,000 MRO items
- Business Intelligence-Power transmission suppliers predicting increased demand in 2007; Average salary for a woman MRO buyer; and MRO buyers who have a corporate level position
- Outsourcing
- Fastenal expo to have more training for MRO buyers
- MRO Briefs
- My Turn
- MRO gets its day in the sun
- Players
- Corey G. Timm, purchasing agent, Milltronics Manufacturing
- Prices
- Coal Prices Remain Low
- Zinc Rebound Seen
- No Trend In Oil Yet
- Tin Prices Rise On Deficit
- Energy, aluminum costs are the highest in February
- Rubber Prices Slipping
- Winter Boosts Natgas
- Industrial Gases Float Up
- Higher Gold Expected
- Sugar Prices Have Soured
- Benzene Prices Flat-line
- PVC Pipe Prices Soften
- ABS Increase Flops
- Prices Paid Slide
- Copper Product Prices Dip
- Products
- Halide Lamps
- Square Washer
- Small Switch
- Power Analyzer
- Lift Truck
- Clarified Tubes
- Lightpipes
- Dock Levelers
- Speaking Out
- Procurement crossroads: Where you should be headed
- Trends
- Counterfeit parts becoming a greater concern
- Is the bloom already off the ethanol rose?
- Novelis launches new solution center to drive innovation
- Purchasing seeks nominations for its All-Star MRO Buy team
- UTC's Minority Business Exchange honors the efforts of its diverse suppliers
- Precious metals prices could see cyclical peaks this year
- Ameren turns a supply chain vision into a reality
- Buyers rate communication as most vital skill
- DuPont vows to phase out PFOA by 2015
- JLG Industries employs Lean and Six Sigma for suppliers
- Business Intelligence-Average savings per sourcing event; Buyers that use the Internet to buy products and Average spend as a percent of revenue.
- Posco discusses global alliance with Arcelor Mittal
- Whirpool's procurement takes the lead in outsourcing
- Purchasing execs on the move...
- Pitney Bowes balances sourcing of direct and indirect spend
- CEOs talk more like CPOs on costs, contracts
- Your Turn
- Frustration, questions reign
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