Purchasing - September 13, 2007
Features
How to Negotiate with Suppliers
This is the fifth installment in our series on how purchasing staffs at various companies implement strategic sourcing. You can find the other installments in the Strategic Sourcing channel at our website, www.purchasing.com. This series is more of a conversation than a tutorial, and we invite you to join in on the conversation.
- Chemicals Edition
- Business Intelligence-Chemicals Edition
- Chemforecast
- Sulfuric acid is suddenly scarce and expensive
- Chemical Distribution
- Chemical buyers measure supplier performance
- Supply Update
- Plastic additives supply shifts as prices ease
- Electronics Edition
- Electronics Briefs
- Business Intelligence-Electronics Edition
- Sun's e-auction evolution
- Displays
- Prices drop for plasma display panels
- Memory
- DRAM market to bounce back
- Power Management
- Nokia to replace batteries
- Purchasing Strategy
- How electronics distributors buy
- Semiconductors
- Look for more price pressure on memory, microprocessors
- Strategic Sourcing
- EMS industry targets mechatronics systems
- Top Connector Suppliers
- Connector prices to drop on slow demand but supply remains firm
- Features
- Medal of Professional Excellence
- Eaton wins Purchasing's Medal of Professional Excellence
- Procure-to-Pay
- Kennametal makes the move to electronic invoices
- Metals
- Metal framing has fallen victim to new-housing recession
- Business Intelligence-Metals
- JSW Steel buys U.S. steel plate, pipe mills
- Metals Chips
- Aluminum
- Novelis gets hood aluminum sheet contract for Cadillac CTS
- "Access Novelis" expands aluminum sheet mills' online ordering process
- Global aluminum demand heading up; North American demand going down
- Antimony
- Roskill: Antimony prices should hold at $6,000 until 2010
- Base Metals
- Earthquake disrupted many nonferrous metals operations in Peru
- Macquarie analysts lift 2008 copper, aluminum price forecasts
- Buying Steel
- Steel buyers still want quality products delivered on time
- Copper
- Asian wire firms go on a copper buying spree as August prices drop
- Copper and Brass
- Midyear copper and brass distributor shipments are off by 8.4%
- Global Sourcing
- Buyers won't slow global sourcing despite product recalls
- Iron Ore
- Chinese steel mills expect stable 2008 prices
- Relocated DRI plants about to open
- Cleveland-Cliffs selects Michigan for Japanese-technology iron ore nugget plant
- Precious Metals
- Precious metals clearinghouse statistics have slipped in '07
- Steel
- Worthington, Magnetto form steel processing JV U.S. steel processor
- World's steel producers increase output by 5.3%
- Steel analysts see price slide near bottom
- No sign of steel purchasing expansion seen in buyers' polls
- Structural Steels
- Substitution of low-nickel stainless steel grades has accelerated
- Zinc
- Proposed legislation would allow changes in composition of small zinc coins
- News and Departments
- Black Belt Negotiators
- The cable guys' dilemma
- Corporate Travel
- Procurement takes on meetings buy
- Economy + Supply
- Economy Ok
- Productivity Bounces Back
- Economy + Supply
- Housing Index weakens
- Lead Demand Outpaces Supply
- Fed Maverick Spend Triples
- AbitibiBowater Awaits U.S. Ok
- Titanium Supply Expands
- Distributor Sales Up
- Roofing Goes Plastic
- Detroit's Woes Continue
- Fed Rate Hike Unclear
- Alcoa Declares Force Majeure
- Logistics
- GE, Alcoa get the most from their top-rated LTL carriers
- Logistics buyers take note: LTL market is soft right now
- Business Intelligence-Logistics
- MRO + Distribution
- MRO Briefs
- Business Intelligence-MRO + Distribution
- MRO purchasers look to authorized distributors for leadtime help
- Rockwell Collins looks to suppliers for help meeting MRO objectives
- My Turn
- Eaton's supply chain management practices
- Office
- Color, marketing drive demand for print on-demand services
- Business Intelligence-Office
- Prices
- Credit Woes Slow Prices
- PPI Rise Slows
- Chemtura Hikes Specialties
- LTL Pricing is Soft
- Crude Oil Cheaper in August
- Ethylene Prices Up
- Distributors could Charge Fees
- Acrylonitrile Slips
- Package Rates Stable
- BASF Wins Pricing Dispute
- Prices
- Aluminum Prices Dip
- Polystyrene Retreats
- Trends
- Business Intelligence-Trends
- Fluor works to formalize buyer-supplier conflict resolution strategy
- How buyers are reacting to product recalls
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