Purchasing - April 9, 2009
Features
Buyers target new business wins at Magna Electronics
While most C-level executives see purchasing's job as reducing costs, a few visionary corporate executives understand purchasing's role in helping the company win new business, in addition to managing costs. Executives at Magna Electronics in Holly, Mich. are among those visionary few and with that in mind, they recruited David Muller to be director of purchasing and told him to overhaul the de...
- Features
- LG Electronics centralizes purchasing to save
- Chemicals
- Buyers see potential and controversy with nanotechnology
- Metal Pipe and Tube
- Demand for metal pipe and tube is down—and dropping
- Professional Development
- ISM 2009 heads to Charlotte
- Strategic Sourcing
- Four tips on spend analysis for small companies
- News and Departments
- Chemicals
- Wary buyers keep polyethylene supplies lean despite low prices
- Chemicals Market Business Intelligence
- Corporate Travel
- Purchasing uses cards to analyze spend, seize cost savings opportunities in travel
- Meetings cancellations give buyers an edge in supplier negotiations
- Incentives to cut costs of travel help to boost company profits
- Economy + Supply
- Chip Market Tightening
- Dow-Rohm Deal Goes On
- There still is no big buying pickup evident (Buyers' 30-day buying plans)
- Moly Supply Could Get Tight
- China's GDP will be Low
- Chemtura Files Chapter 11
- National Semi Restructures
- IBM Could Buy Sun
- Auto Suppliers Get Bailed Out
- Housing Data Builds
- Durable Goods Orders Up
- BASF Cuts Back
- Chemical Market Stays Down
- Asarco Slows Copper Output
- Electronics
- Electronics Business Intelligence
- Electronics Distribution Briefs
- Larger OEMs turn to electronics distributors for services
- Falling analog IC prices will stabilize in the second half
- Logistics
- Truckload carriers continue to feel the pain of lower demand
- ISO develops new RFID durability standard
- Logistics Market Business Intelligence
- MRO + Distribution
- MRO distributors receive excellence awards
- Omni-Source Southeast builds purchasing operation on MRO
- MRO Business Intelligence
- MRO Briefs
- Metals
- Swagelok develops new process to harden stainless steel
- Soft titanium market conditions have reduced shipments, cut prices
- Metals Chips
- Metals Market Business Intelligence
- My Turn
- Cap and trade: Where Green and energy buying meet
- Office
- Office Briefs
- New MFPs help meet cost-reduction goals and Green concerns
- Office Products Business Intelligence
- Prices
- Iron Ore Prices Expected to Drop
- Ocean Rates Off Bottom
- Sheet Steel Prices Drop
- Air Freight Rates Dive
- Nickel Prices will Stay Down
- Steel Scrap Prices Crash
- Linerboard Prices Fold
- Diesel Slide Hits Speed Bump
- Buyers see no price inflation for any commodity group (National, recent price trend)
- Energy Prices Stay Low
- Aluminum Price Forecast Down
- Zinc Prices Weighed Down
- Producer Prices Tick Up
- Gold Prices Shine On
- Trends
- Carl Zeiss brings Lean to its distribution centers
- Purchasing's business conditions, buying plans indexes continue up
- Die casting suppliers see foreign orders coming back to the U.S.
- Six Sigma helps Ring Power become a better supplier and buyer
- Strategic Sourcing Business Intelligence
- Oracle launches sourcing software on demand
- Survey: Manufacturing suppliers see growth ahead for 2009
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