Purchasing - November 13, 2008
Features
Liquidity Lock: Buyers' strategies key in surviving the credit crunch
These are confusing and aggravating times for buyers of manufacturing materials, who say they are bracing for several months of supply and pricing volatility because of the credit crunch. The crunch squeezed business and industry particularly hard early in October, then let up slightly by mid month. Nevertheless, "the seriousness of the nagging uncertainty and utter lack of confidence regarding...
- Electronics Edition
- Electronics Distribution
- Inventory, tech support and communication top buyers' wish lists for distributors
- Electronics Trends
- Distribution pact expanded
- Allied to carry Eaton products
- Financial crisis could mean less chip demand
- Rising tantalum ore costs could push up capacitor prices in '09
- Electronics Industry Business Intelligence
- Mouser inks deal with AXSEM
- Portable electronics, hybrid cars to drive global battery demand
- Digi-Key signs deal
- Processor prices to fall as suppliers invest in technology
- Passives Pricing
- Expect 5% increases for many passive components
- Features
- Chemical Distribution Outlook
- Prices, demand weigh heavily on chemical distributors' minds
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Corporate Social Responsibility Report: Buyers audit suppliers' ethics
- Supplier Management
- Supplier management: Survival lessons from automotive buyers
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Purchasing's recognition programs reward supplier performance
- Metals
- News and Departments
- Black Belt Negotiators
- Black Belt Negotiators: How to forge a contract for forgings
- Chemicals
- Chemicals Market Business Intelligence
- Specialty chemicals buyers put focus back on cost concerns
- Slowing economy fails to halt industrial gas price hikes
- Corporate Travel
- Here's how not to leave money on the table in supplier negotiations for 2009
- Economy + Supply
- Industrial Output Fell 2.8%
- Economy + Supply Data
- Demand for high-performance computing equipment explodes
- Business Real Estate is Off
- Greenspan Shocked at Credit Crunch
- Zinc Surplus Will Double
- Nuclear Power Demand is Growing
- Demand for Geothermal Energy Rises
- Car Sales Crash Ahead
- Supplier Cuts NAND Supply
- Steel Demand Slump Seen
- Nickel supply to be plentiful
- Housing Starts at 17-Year Low
- China's Commodity Demand May Bump Up
- Logistics
- Logistics Business Intelligence
- Freight market looks good for buyers, but carriers show signs of stress
- MRO + Distribution
- MRO Briefs
- MRO Business Intelligence
- Move to strategic MRO sourcing puts new focus on relationships
- My Turn
- The economy calls for purchasing to take charge
- Office
- Watch for hidden risks in telecommunications contracts
- Office Products + Technologies Business Intelligence
- Prices
- Nickel Prices in Freefall
- Platinum Prices will Rebound
- Commodity Prices
- Inflation Deflates on Lower Commodity Prices
- Office Gear Gets Slashed
- Production Cuts Aimed at Raising Tin Prices
- Metallurgical Coal Prices to Stay Robust
- Prices for Road Materials Go Up
- DRAM Prices Down 50%
- Housing Prices Slump
- Titanium Prices Weak
- Aluminum Prices Slide
- Ethylene Prices Slide
- Speaking Out
- Supply chain management skills purchasing professionals need
- Trends
- Strategic Sourcing Business Intelligence
- CSCMP session provides tips for inbound freight management
- As jet fuel prices plummet, airlines pay the price
- Strategic sourcing plan has Varian near peak performance
- Interest in P-card programs grows as economy creates spending concerns
- Survey: Buyers curtail buying plans, saying economy is contracting
- Tyco provides LCCS best practices
- Economists see weak growth, low prices for 2009
- Amex: Travel costs rise slightly
- Indirect spend management nets Cameron unexpected benefit: Close ties to suppliers
- United Technologies increases diverse supplier spend
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