Purchasing - March 13, 2008
Features
How Kodak centralized contracts
Decentralized spend. Outdated contracts. Missed savings opportunities in contracts. Fragmented company policies on negotiation language. Contracts that no one knew were up for renewal. Eastman Kodak Co. had all of those problems, and the company knew it had to tackle them head on, if only just to increase compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) mandates.
- Chemicals
- Electronics Edition
- Alcatel-Lucent targets TCO in design
- Electronics Distribution
- Electronics Distribution: Design services aren't just for new products
- Electronics Trends
- Electronics Briefs
- Declining demand means SRAM prices will continue to slide
- Toshiba to build two new production fabs in Japan
- Electronics Business Intelligence
- Increased material costs means higher prices for some electromechanical switches
- NAND memory prices to fall as demand weakens
- Semiconductor Forecast
- Semiconductor Report: Pricing free-fall ends
- Features
- Chemical Distribution
- Chemical Distribution Report: Electronics industry strives to get the chemistry right
- Texas Instruments seeks optimal role for chemical distributors
- Cover Story
- How+Why you should be buying Services
- MRO Survey Report
- MRO buying gets strategic
- MRO+Distribution
- MRO + Distribution
- MRO Business Intelligence
- MRO Briefs
- Metals
- Business Intelligence
- Alloying and Plating Metals
- Alloying and Plating Metals: Market volatility clouds price forecasts
- Stainless Steel
- Stainless steel prices unsettled; buyers reluctant to commit to big-tonnage buys
- Steel
- Nucor to pay $1.44 billion to buy scrap-metal giant
- Strategic Sourcing
- How to buy steel: First, know the market
- News and Departments
- Black Belt Negotiators
- 'Cut those packaging costs'
- Chemicals
- Ethanol pipeline studied
- Caustic soda prices up on tight supply, while chlorine levels off due to slow PVC demand
- Chemical Business Intelligence
- Corporate Travel
- For purchasing, the next strategic sourcing opportunity in travel is meetings management
- Economy + Supply
- Con-way CEO: Freight Demand "Scraping Bottom"
- Hynix Semiconductor to Cut Capex
- Gerdau Expands Steel Supply
- U.S., EU Snag Counterfeit Computer Chips
- Economy + Supply
- Caustic Soda Supply Tightens
- Japanese Steelmakers Now Using U.S. Coal
- Steel Output Could be Short
- OLED Demand to Rise
- CEOs Forecast Sluggish Economic Growth in the U.S.
- More Corn to Go to Ethanol
- Codelco to Expand Copper Production Capacity
- Sanmina-SCI Sells PC Business
- Copper Production Forecast Revised By Credit Suisse
- Fed Cuts Growth Forecast
- China Ramps-up Ethylene Production
- Posco Puts Off Plans For India Steel Plant
- MRO + Distribution
- Automated rating system helps BMW Manufacturing manage supplier performance
- My Turn
- Procurement takes on the services spend
- Office
- Corporate Express rejects Staples bid
- Cox uses e-procurement to keep service levels above water
- Business Intelligence
- Prices
- LCD Monitor Panel Prices Drop
- Iron-Ore Price Hike Hits Steel Prices
- Chip Prices Plunged in '07
- NAND Prices to Drop in '08
- Intel Develops Chip for Low-End Computer Market
- Outokumpu: Steel Prices Rise
- Micron "OK" with Price War
- SRAM Prices Slide
- Fortis: Copper Prices to Ease
- Novelis Hikes Aluminum Prices
- Prices
- Tire Makers Push Price Increases
- Buyers Forecast Plastic Resin Price Hikes
- Potash Prices to Stay High
- Scale Up: Big Ideas in the Middle Market
- Small EMS provider faces the same strategic sourcing challenges as the big firms
- Speaking Out
- Seven questions to ask before running your next reverse auction
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