Purchasing - October 18, 2007
Features
Buyers drop in on the plant floor
When some companies set out to overhaul their assembly-line efficiencies, Lean manufacturing strategies are the only step. At Herman Miller, the Zeeland, Mich.-based office furniture maker, Lean was just the first step. Back in 1996, Herman Miller set out to overhaul its assembly line production system, specifically within its pedestal files manufacturer, Integrated Metals Technology (IMT).
- Electronics Edition
- Electronics Distribution
- Distribution Briefs
- Catalog electronics distributors look to expand their role
- Electronics Outsourcing
- EMS industry goes car shopping
- The EMS top 50
- Electronics Trends
- Business Intelligence - Electronics Trends
- Spansion opens new NOR flash factory
- Quality needs to be top priority in China
- Apple cuts BOM cost for new iPod nano
- Electronics Briefs
- Buyers can expect stable pricing, delivery for resistor networks
- Analog IC market to drop 2% in 2007
- Memory IC price erosion weakens semiconductor industry's growth
- Features
- How IBM buys HR services globally
- Coatings Market
- Suppliers in the coatings market play a bigger role in product development and cost reduction
- Nonvolatile Memory
- It's a buyer's market for NOR flash
- Supply Chain Manager of the Year
- Boeing executive Steven Schaffer is named supply chain manager of the year for the 787 Dreamliner project
- Supply Chain Strategies
- Lenovo does global supply chain right
- Metals
- Metals Chips
- Business Intelligence - Metals
- Copper
- Buyers press for on-time deliveries
- Iron Ore
- World supply giants seeking 30% price hike for 2008 fiscal year
- Scrap Steel
- Scrap steel spot prices are rising 35% this year as supply has tightened
- Steel Dynamics buys recycler OmniSource to insure supply
- Scrap Substitute
- Mesabi Nugget project gets the green light
- Steel
- Cargill, Robinson Steel form sheet-processing venture
- Trent Tube bought by Plymouth Tube
- Gerdau Ameristeel makes downstream acquisitions
- Titanium
- Perryman adds hot-melt capacity
- Titanium supply will be tight through 2010; expansions won't help immediately
- News and Departments
- Black Belt Negotiators
- "Your margin is too high"
- Chemforecast
- Sodium chlorate prices continue up on tight supply and high costs
- Chemicals
- Chem News
- Business Intelligence - Chemicals
- PPG sells its auto glass business to focus on coatings
- Corporate Travel
- No Vacancy: Travel buyers facing a seller's market
- Economy + Supply
- Durable Goods Fall
- Inspect Chinese Tubing
- Bimba Buys Mead
- Economists: 2% Growth
- Economy + Supply
- Paper Distributor Expands
- PT Demand drops
- PC Shipments to Rise in 2008
- TiO2 Prices will Stay Flat
- New Oil Refinery Planned
- Titanium Supply to be Tight
- Will Fed Cut Rates Again
- Electronics Leadtimes: Electronics components are much harder to source this month
- Signs the economy may be slowing enough for a second Fed rate cut:
- Logistics
- Panama Canal expansion breaks ground
- Business Intelligence - Logistics
- When deciding to outsource logistics to a 3PL, read the signs
- MRO + Distribution
- Business Intelligence - MRO + Distribution
- Purchasing at UNICCO gathers suppliers for employee tradeshow
- Distributor technology tools can remove costs from supply chain
- MRO Briefs
- My Turn
- Boeing's Steven Schaffer is role model for supply chain executives
- Office
- Business Intelligence - Office
- IBM enters the open-source foray with new office software
- Prices
- Uranium Price Forecast Cut
- Vinyl Acetate Prices Spike
- DDR2 Tags Keep Falling
- Aluminum Prices Drop
- NOR Flash Prices to Fall
- Copper Prices to Stay High
- Prices
- GE: Metals Prices A Concern
- Wire Rod Suppliers Want Hike
- Producer Price Index Dips
- Lead Prices Hit Peak
- Chip Price Declines to Ease
- Scale Up: Big Ideas in the Middle Market
- Procurement organization goes global at midmarket tech firm
- Speaking Out
- How to manage your procurement career
- Trends
- Best in class procurement orgs provide 10x ROI
- Business Intelligence - Trends
- Johnson Controls outlines supply chain skills assessment
- EMS firm Plexus leverages integrated inventory optimization
- Wal-Mart to poll suppliers on energy use
- Forecasts emerging for 2008 energy prices
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