Purchasing - January 17, 2008
Features
P&G-Gillette: Blueprint for a merger
As the chief procurement officer of one of the biggest consumer products companies on the planet, Rick Hughes isn't rattled easily. But when he got word in January 2005 that his company, Procter & Gamble, was buying rival Gillette in the largest-ever consumer products industry merger, his first thought was something along the lines of: "Wow, how are we going to pull this off?" Fast forward ...
- Chemicals
- Chemicals
- Helium shortage spurs price hikes
- Ethanol prices to stay put amid market stress
- CMAI: aromatics expansion will bring prices down
- Dow shuts down plants, exits automotive sealers market
- Petroleum, plant oils send surfactant prices through the roof
- Sumitomo may expand Middle East JV
- Dow sells $9.5B worth of businesses into JV
- Electronics Edition
- 2008 Electronics Pricing Outlook
- 2008 Electronics Pricing Outlook: Here's what you'll pay this year
- 2008 Electronics Supply Outlook
- Why chip prices won't drop much: Tightening supply
- Electronics Distribution
- Expect more from distributors in 2008
- Electronics Trends
- Capex cutbacks could cause supply headaches for electronics buyers
- Chinese chip market surpasses $50 billion
- Business Intelligence
- Distribution Roundup
- Fewer military connectors will be mil-spec
- Qimonda moves more production to 300mm wafers
- Global Sourcing
- Watch total costs if sourcing in India
- Features
- 2008 Chemical Outlook
- Chemicals outlook 2008: Global demand means higher prices
- 2008 Manufacturing Outlook
- 2008 Manufacturing Outlook: Buyers will have a busy year
- 2008 Manufacturing Outlook: Here's what buyers will be doing
- 2008 Materials Outlook
- 2008 Materials Outlook: Prices will stay up
- Corporate Travel
- With travel budgets tight and rates high, buyers keep costs in check in 2008
- Inventory Management
- Inventory management: Software shines light on savings
- Supply Chain Management
- Strategic sourcing: Dow Chemical turns inward
- Logistics
- MRO + Distribution
- MRO + Distribution
- To ward off economic chills, MRO buyers work on relationships in '08
- Metals
- Metals Chips
- Global Briefs
- Business Intelligence
- Steel Briefs
- 2008 Metals Price Outlook
- Metals: Here's what you'll pay this year
- Aluminum
- No end seen for the weak aluminum demand from downstream end-use markets
- Alexin has broken ground on greenfield aluminum billet plant in Indiana
- Gold
- World Gold Council eyes use in automotive catalytic converters
- Nonferrous Mining
- Climax moly mine to re-open
- Michigan OKs Kennecott mine
- Secondary Aluminum
- Alcoa expands aluminum recycling capability 50%
- Stainless Steel
- Stainless steel: Monthly production trimmed worldwide in the fourth quarter
- Steel
- ArcelorMittal plans a new steel beam mill in Quebec
- ArcelorMittal calls off sale of Maryland steel mill
- Steel Futures
- Flat-rolled steel trading in New York put off until "sometime" this year
- Steel Trade
- Steel: Imports dropped 26% in 2007; outlook for 2008 is so-so
- Titanium
- Timet defers titanium sponge plant
- News and Departments
- Black Belt Negotiators
- "Bowled over by sourcing constraints"
- Chemicals
- Pricing News
- Business Intelligence
- Economy + Supply
- Asean Nations form Trade Pact
- 11-Month Chip Sales Up 2.8%
- Nissan to Cut Weight by 15%
- LCD Shortage is Possible
- Economy + Supply
- Hitachi may Quit Hard Drives
- Clean Energy Outlays Grow
- Dram Capex to Slow
- Synfuel Facility Planned
- Analysts Debate Recession
- Australian Nickel may Expand
- Electronics Leadtimes
- Ariba Closes on Procuri
- Ethanol Shakeout is Due
- Logistics
- Business Intelligence
- Asian small parcel timeline
- MRO + Distribution
- MRO Briefs
- Business Intelligence
- My Turn
- Commodities prices may be high, but here is a way to control other costs
- Office
- Business Intelligence
- Prices
- Prices
- Trucking Rates to Stay Low
- Mechanical Tubing Drops
- Crude Oil Prices Hit $100
- Specialty Chemicals Increase
- Ethanol Prices may be Higher
- Nippon Wins 10% Plate Hike
- Cobalt Price Sets Records
- Uranium Price may Go Higher
- Airfares are Increasing
- Copper Prices will Rise
- Precious Metals may Cost More
- Dram Price Dive Over?
- Trends
- Business Intelligence
- Trends
- Trends
- MeadWestvaco's procurement team looks to improve product stewardship
- BASF CEO: Commodity costs to stay high
- Intel expands supplier diversity program globally
- Port of Long Beach to implement clean-air cargo fee
- Steelmakers, miners look to low-cost regions for iron-ore mines
- Xstrata plans to capitalize on high coal prices
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