Purchasing - April 10, 2008
Features
International Supply Management Conference to convene in St. Louis
At the 93rd Annual International Supply Management Conference and Educational Exhibit in St. Louis next month, all eyes (and ears) will be turned toward the economists speaking at the business survey and economic outlook presentation. Traditionally the session is well attended, but with the economy looking so uncertain this year, the event is sure to draw even more interest than usual.
- Electronics Edition
- Nortel pushes the outsourcing envelope
- Electronics Distribution
- OEM, EMS requirements of distributors differ
- Electronics Trends
- Connector prices should rise as cost of materials increases
- Electronics Business Intelligence
- Analog-chip price curve to flatten as suppliers seek profitability
- Electronic Briefs
- Computer shipments to rise nearly 13% in 2008
- UMC, Elpida partner on foundry services
- Purchasing Strategy
- The search for accurate electronic component price forecasts
- Features
- Best Practices
- Suppliers follow a roadmap to Lean best practices
- Energy
- How buyers survive the energy cost crunch
- Risk Management
- Hedging is risky...Look before you leap
- Supply Chain Solutions
- Chemical Buyers: Heed caution signs on road to e-sourcing
- Trucking
- Trucking Update: What goes around comes around
- Metals
- Metals Chips
- Metals Business Intelligence
- Aluminum
- Nichols Aluminum shuts Alabama sheet mill
- Aluminum: Even with reduced production, surplus will be large this year
- U.S. aluminum demand slipped last year and may continue sliding in 2008
- Construction about to start on new Iceland aluminum smelter
- Base Metals
- It takes more than a penny to make one
- Copper
- Copper prices around $4/lb as supplies tighten
- Lead and Zinc
- Lead and zinc: Global consumption outpaced demand in '07
- Metalworking
- Precision Metalforming Association members expect business to be improved in the second half
- Molybdenum
- Molybdenum supply issues keep prices high; less byproduct output a problem
- Oil Country Tubulars
- High energy prices boost buys of pipe and tube
- Silver
- Silver production resumes at Sterling's Sunshine Mine
- Steel
- LME opens futures trading of steel futures contracts for billets
- Man of India is coming to Arkansas with steel pipe plant
- Steel buyers face record-high prices as imports slow to a halt
- U.S. steel structural exports increased in January
- Blast furnace outage cuts Severstal's steel production 35%
- China approves more mergers to continue industrial rationalization
- Titanium
- TAL to make floor beams for Boeing 787 Dreamliner
- My Turn
- News and Departments
- Black Belt Negotiators
- 'Deliver those connectors on time—or else'
- Chemicals
- Softer domestic, export demand could cap polyethylene prices
- Chemicals Business Intelligence
- Corporate Travel
- At Hewlett-Packard, procurement consolidates the meetings-management spend
- Buckle up: 2008 is going to be an interesting year
- Economy + Supply
- Taiwanese Invest $14 billion in Megaplant Startup
- Steel Demand Still Strong
- Toshiba Plans New Fabs
- China Expands Chem Capacity
- Trucking Carriers May Struggle
- Economy + Supply Data
- Weyerhaeuser to Sell Unit to IP
- LSI Buys HDD Business
- UCLA Report: No Recession
- Port of New Orleans plans expansion
- Olin Shuts Canadian Plant
- Arcelor Unloads Sparrows Point
- OECD: No Growth for Q2
- Discrete Chip Revenue Rises
- IBM Inks Deal with Hitachi
- Logistics
- Land Rover leverages RFID for streamlined logistics
- Logistics Business Intelligence
- MRO + Distribution
- Grainger adds vendor-managed inventory services to line-up
- MRO Briefs
- MRO Business Intelligence
- Graybar develops educational program with customers in mind
- Office
- Canon, Konica Minolta announce new multi-function and printing devices at AIIM/OnDemand
- Indirect Business Intelligence
- Printing Goes Green
- Office Technology
- Spend control, security take center stage at AIIM/OnDemand show
- Prices
- NAND Prices Fall
- Prices for Small LCDs Increase
- Corn Costs Hit Ethanol
- Copper Prices to Stay High
- Zinc Prices will Climb
- More Pain at the Pump
- Coal Prices will Stay Up
- CRU: Iron Ore prices will Drop in '09
- Airlines Hedge more Jet Fuel
- Prices
- Michelin Ties Oil to Tires
- Steel Price Hikes Hit Buyers Hard
- No Oil Price Relief in Sight
- It's the Interest Rates, Stupid
- Scale Up: Big Ideas in the Middle Market
- Three hats fit fine for Wingstop's top purchasing executive
- Speaking Out
- How to think about hedging
- Trends
- Novellus realizes benefits of early supplier involvement
- Industrial gases buyers are concerned with supply, future higher prices
- Hewlett-Packard gets the most of its supplier feedback
- Procurement Business Intelligence
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