Purchasing - February 12, 2009
Features
Chemical supplier qualification just got more difficult
While the barrage of chemicals price hikes of 2008 are a fading memory, the deepening global recession and its impact on the supply base looks to be this year's beast of burden for chemicals and plastics buyers. On top of their usual supplier assessment priorities including regulatory compliance, total cost analysis and product quality, in an increasingly slumping chemicals market, financial so...
- Electronics Edition
- Electronics Distribution
- Expect more flexibility from electronics distributors
- Electronics Trends
- AMD sells handheld graphics assets to Qualcomm
- Digital signal processor prices will fall as demand weakens
- DRAM manufacturers cut production, want higher prices
- Electronics Market Business Intelligence
- Fujitsu wants to sell its hard-disk-drive business
- Jaco sells its components business
- Nortel looks to reorganize
- Electronics systems shipments will decline in '09
- iSuppli: LEDs will outperform overall chip industry
- NAND memory prices rise
- Electronics Distribution Briefs
- Sourcing Strategies
- How to plan for a semiconductor supply shortage
- Features
- 2009 Green Supplier Directory
- 2009 Green Supplier Directory
- Goal: A Green supply chain
- How They Buy
- MRO sourcing goes global
- Services Spend Management
- Services spend management: Find your inner salesperson
- Metals
- News and Departments
- Boston Scientific develops supplier risk management program
- Contract equipment purchasing requires team-based focus
- Black Belt Negotiators
- Black Belt Negotiators: How to save on banking services
- Chemicals
- Volatile sodium bicarbonate prices may stabilize with raw materials this year
- Benzene prices are down, but demand is well off historical norms
- Chemicals Business Intelligence
- Corporate Travel
- Strategic sourcing buys the best for MillerCoors
- Today's travel procurement professional knows how to manage supplier relationships
- Economy + Supply
- Ethanol Production Cut
- Microsoft CEO: "No Quick Turn"
- Durable Goods Orders Off 2.6%
- Cabot Closes Plants
- USS Exits DOM Pipe Market
- Hotel Vacancies...Really
- OPEC, IEA Say Crude Oil Demand Flat
- Day in Court for Rohm & Haas
- Nucor Delays Plant
- Utah Magnesium Plant Shuts Down
- GDP Fell 3.8% In Last Quarter
- Economy + Supply
- Ferrochrome Demand Down
- Sunoco Shuts Plant
- Steel Shipments, Demand Way Off
- Logistics
- Truckers cautious with their infrastructure optimism
- IATA data shows biggest air freight declines in seven years
- Logistics Business Intelligence
- MRO + Distribution
- MRO + Distribution Business Intelligence
- Strategic MRO sourcing takes center stage at Grainger event
- My Turn
- Green efforts continue despite the economy
- Office
- Survey finds spend compliance still a challenge for office buyers
- Office Products Business Intelligence
- Prices
- Butadiene Price Takes A Dive
- Polypropylene Price Crashes
- Silver Prices to Dip
- Aluminum Prices Hit Six-Year Low
- Truckload Rates Run Downhill
- Diesel Price Hits Four-Year Low
- Prices
- AK Steel: Iron Ore Prices Will Plunge
- Steel Plate Price Cracks
- Linerboard Prices Down
- Gold Prices to Slide
- Rails Rates Head Up
- SBR Prices Tumble
- Speaking Out
- Tips for controlling costs
- Trends + News
- Strategic Sourcing Business Intelligence
- Xerox debuts purchasing outsourcing service
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