Purchasing - July 14, 2007
Features
Purchasing compensation: How to negotiate a higher salary
The most important advice for anyone asking for a raise: Know your value. This is especially true for purchasing professionals, because buyers are working in a field that's red hot right now. Demand for purchasing and supply management pros has exploded. Results of Purchasing's most recent annual salary survey show compensation rising by 6% last year.
- Chemicals Edition
- Hyperion Plans New U.S. Oil Refinery
- Business Intelligence- Chemicals Edition
- Pricing News
- Chemforecast
- Citric acid prices to rise as increased demand tightens supply
- Food and Beverage Report
- Legal Sea Foods brings fresh perspective to supply chain
- Market Update
- Bulk packaging suppliers focused on efficiency and environment
- Ethanol supply glut in second half could depend on logistics capacity
- Electronics and Technology Edition
- Electronics Trends
- SIA lowers 2007 chip forecast
- Electronics manufacturing grows in Eastern Europe
- DRAM prices will stabilize
- Minimal growth forecast for chip investment
- Business Intelligence- Electronics Trend
- Chip market grows in China
- Expect stable leadtimes, pricing for integrated passive devices
- Matsushita moves to 45nm
- Features
- Kimball's procurement moves from tactical to strategic
- Alltel slashes costs with Strategic Sourcing
- Special Report: The State of Global Logistics
- The state of global logistics: The sky is not falling
- Supply Chain Management
- Best practices in risk management
- Supply Chain Software
- Tool kit for e-procurement
- Metals
- Steel futures are possible
- Business Intelligence- Metals
- Aluminum
- Aluminum: Alcan may be in search of a white knight
- North American aluminum demand is sliding for flat-rolled, extrusions
- Chinese aluminum consumption growth drives the world market
- Alcan in deal to supply Airbus with aluminum
- Novelis supplies aluminum sheet for Buick crossovers
- Base Metals
- Report says mining industry in good shape, led by copper
- No end for competition, volatile prices for nonferrous products
- Nonferrous Miners are plunging into risky new terrain
- Copper
- Peru has caught the eye of global copper mining companies
- AT&T to use copper, fiber for new Web services
- Copper: High prices driving domestic substitution of the red metal
- Freeport/PD
- Copper marriage is working
- Global Steel
- Essar expands in North America
- Gold
- Bandits get bolder as gold bullion's price climbs
- Indium
- Electronics demand is supporting indium metal's growth
- Iron Ore
- Chinese iron ore demand could trigger a shortage
- Metals Buying Survey
- Metals buyers prefer contracts, indexes more than ever
- Stainless Steel
- Nickel-based steel buyers investigate material substitutes
- Stalled manufacturing growth slows North American purchasing
- Steel
- China sets limit on steel exports to 10% of output; U.S. mills skeptical
- Arcelor Mittal chief stresses quality of supply; dismisses steel futures
- News and Departments
- Black Belt Negotiators
- Tell us your real costs
- Economy + Supply
- Copper Supply Disrupted...
- China Cuts Export Rebates
- Celanese Outage Continues
- Rohm & Haas Expands LCDS
- Non-Res Building Continues
- Samsung Boosts U. S. Chips
- Power Surge is Possible
- Malaysian Output Seen Down
- Congo makes more copper and cobalt
- U.S. Bankruptcies to Spike
- Nuhorizons Teams with SIMO
- Chemicals Leadtimes Shrink
- Storm Hits Coal Supply
- Toshiba to Double NAND
- Leadtime Report
- Leadtime Report
- Logistics
- Business Intelligence- Logistics
- RFID still brings more questions than answers for inbound logistics
- MRO + Distribution
- Business Intelligence- MRO + Distribution
- Purchasing's relationships with suppliers help manage growth
- ISM Indirect-MRO Group plans 10th annual conference
- MRO Briefs
- My Turn
- Corporate risk management begins with purchasing
- Office
- Paper price concern has buyers shifting their strategies
- Players
- Eric Tritch, Commodity Manager, Graco
- Prices
- Fluff Pulp Hike Tried
- Sheet Steel is Hibernating
- Supresta Pushing Plasticizer
- LTL Rates to Drop Further
- Timken Ups Heat-Treated Steel
- Import Prices Up
- Pulp Hike Endorsed
- Murata Boosts Power Supply
- Natgas Goes into A Slide
- Air Products Ups Prices
- Producer Prices Up in May
- Vinyl Resin Increases
- Prices
- Hotel Rates May Ease in '08
- Intel will Cut Prices 50%
- UBS: Copper Prices Peaked
- Scale Up: Big Ideas in the Middle Market
- Supplier relationships prove invaluable to purchasing at UNICCO Service Co.
- Strategies + Tactics
- P-cards: JCPenney develops process that’s efficient and pays suppliers faster
- Trends
- Purchasing execs on the move
- Business Intelligence-Trends
- Newmont Mining's supply chain gets the right skills for the job
- Buyers polled predict sluggish growth in second half
- Your Turn
- Audits, energy and profits
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