Purchasing - July 17, 2008
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How to control travel costs
Despite rising prices, companies are not cutting back on travel. But they are increasingly turning to purchasing to come up with ways to better manage the higher costs. Buyers, in turn, are asking travelers now to: • Follow company travel policy and use preferred suppliers. Preplan trips, or plan trips further out, to take advantage of advance-purchase discounts available through th...
- Electronics Edition
- Electronics Distribution
- Specialized distributors offer technical expertise
- Electronics Trends
- Memory IC buyers can expect more price declines for DRAMs
- Higher material, labor costs stifle passive component price cuts
- Memory price declines slow chip industry growth
- Look for large LCD panel prices to rise slightly
- Electronics Distribution Briefs
- Qimonda, Elpida ink DRAM deal
- Processor shipments rise in first quarter
- Intel to cooperate with FTC antitrust probe
- Avnet Express enhances website
- Electronics Distribution Briefs
- PCs in use surpass 1 billion
- Semiconductors
- Chip prices could be going up in 2009 due to capex cutback
- Top Semiconductor Suppliers
- Top Semiconductor Suppliers report: Memory makers slip in rankings
- Top Semiconductor Suppliers report: Technology is not enough
- Features
- Intel retools
- Commodities
- What's behind materials-cost inflation
- Global Logistics
- Buyers search the globe for the right logistics partners, strategy
- Risk Management
- Buyers are balancing cost and risk
- Strategic Sourcing
- How financial services firms buy
- Sustainability
- How to build the Green chemical supply chain
- World Tour
- Buyers follow pipeline back to the Middle East
- Metals
- Metals Industry Business Intelligence
- Metals Chips
- Aluminum
- Alcoa cites risks, costs in tightening payment terms
- Trinidad is building aluminum smelter with Chinese funds
- Aluminum producers association launches sustainability initiative to boost recycling, energy efficiency
- When will aluminum market fundamentals improve? Probably not until 2009
- Coated Sheet Steel
- Galvanized-sheet steel prices erupt
- Copper
- Chinese copper demand could boost cathode past $4/lb
- Copper and Brass
- U.S. copper and brass mills worry about REACH implications
- Magnesium
- China Direct sees magnesium demand growth supporting its production operations
- Stainless Steel
- Stainless steel update: Commerce Dept. sets stage for duties on Belgian plate
- Steel
- Tough times ahead for North American metal processors
- ArcelorMittal, Chinese companies plan to make automotive grade steel
- Johnson Controls sues suppliers over steel price surcharges
- Esmark accepts Severstal's marriage proposal
- Steel Prices
- Nucor chief sees decades ahead of high commodity prices
- Steel Sheet
- Higher sheet steel prices just keep on coming
- Steel Trading
- Steel trading: U.S. steel CEOs dislike Nymex steel futures idea
- World Steel
- OECD Steel Committee says steel demand, capacity will continue to advance
- Goldman Sachs: Global steel demand will outpace supply for next decade
- Crude steel production is growing by more than 5% again this year
- Zinc
- LME zinc prices on pace to drop 40%
- News and Departments
- Blackbelt Negotiators
- How to improve supplier performance
- Chemicals
- Styrene producers continue to raise prices to offset energy costs
- Rohm and Haas to cut staff, chemical production capacity
- Energy price increases continue to haunt chemical buyers
- Chemical sourcing conference set for Boston
- Lubrizol continues supply chain overhaul, issues price increases
- Caustic soda prices hit high on supply snags
- Business Intelligence
- Blanket price increases get mixed reaction
- The meter’s running on polystyrene prices despite demand drop
- Economy + Supply
- DRAM maker Nanya cuts capex
- Economist: $200 oil will devastate global economy
- Ashland signs JV
- Toshiba to cut flash production in Japan
- Coal supply falls short
- 1Q GDP revised up
- Barclays: Metals supply may tighten due to power issues
- Sourcing from China: What’s the magic number?
- Demand for navigation devices booms
- Formosa builds steel plant in Vietnam
- Sabic may expand in china
- Buying plans remain mostly muted
- Poll: U.S. will skirt recession
- Suppliers push cost reduction
- Mortgage applications hit six-year low
- Logistics
- Railroads push Green to make the most of high fuel costs
- Wolseley sees better service from truckload market consolidation
- UPS moves Asian hub to China
- Air, ocean cargo carriers increase fuel surcharges
- DHL gets overhaul, partners with UPS
- Economic slowdown weighs on U.S. intermodal volumes
- US Postal Service leverages 3PL partner for improved ordering
- Logistics Business Intelligence
- MRO + Distribution
- MRO buyer beware: Counterfeit products may be in supply chain
- MRO buyers to exchange best practices at annual event in Denver
- MRO Business Intelligence
- MRO Briefs
- Industrial Supply Association recognizes MRO buying activities at Pratt & Whitney
- My Turn
- Success and failure on collaboration
- Office
- Staples gets green light on Corporate Express acquisition
- Office Products Business Intelligence
- Xerox releases new color MFPs, workflow tools
- Software Briefs
- High manufacturing costs send paper prices soaring
- Prices
- Canadian commodity prices peak
- Nalco: Aluminum prices will be up due to power problems in Asia
- Lieberman blames speculators for high commodity prices
- Nucor CEO: Commodity prices to stay high
- Cobalt prices drop
- Buyers forecast increase in commodity prices
- Micron: Chip prices fell 5% last quarter
- Merrill Lynch: It’s not just investors pushing up commodity prices
- Stephens analyst: Truckload rates turn up due to consolidation
- Steel rod prices going up
- Commodity price index peaks
- Coal prices headed up next year
- Frequent flyers get pinched with fuel surcharge
- Dow Chemical pushes another price hike
- Gold prices up on speculation
- Scale Up: Big Ideas in the Middle Market
- GHSP transforms procurement from PO processors to sourcing engineers
- Trends
- Apple nabs top spot on AMR's Supply Chain 25
- Coal prices predicted to rise dramatically
- Greif navigates an indirect procurement transformation
- Goodrich provides tips to finding offshore suppliers
- Midwest floods create short and long-term concerns in the supply chain
- Stratetgic Sourcing Business Intelligence
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