What's new at Purchasing Online
By Staff -- Purchasing, 5/7/1998
Buyers who haven't been to Purchasing Online (www.purchasing.com) in a while are in fora pleasant surprise. Our newly redesigned Web site now features a more robust home page, as well as a convenient navigation frame that allows users to travel from any one department to another with a single mouse click. It's now easier than ever to locate premium content such as daily price hotlines; news and exclusive pricing data for key industrial markets such as metals, chemicals, electronics, and energy; supply strategy articles on topics like electronic commerce, integrated supply, and outsourcing; and weekly reader survey results.In addition to the contents of every magazine issue, Purchasing Online also provides Web-exclusive information including the cover stories from Purchasing's Buying Strategy Forecast newsletters, monthly analyses of the napm Report on Business, bulletin-board discussion forums, and breaking news from the worldwide news service, Lexis-Nexis.
What else can you find only on the Web? Here's a look at the present and near-future of Purchasing Online:
Purchasing software demos
The days of making software buying decisions based on a static page of specs are numbered. Internet technology has allowed us to take Purchasing's Software Mart one step further. Today, buyers can visit our Online Software Mart and download interactive demonstrations of purchasing software directly through their Web browsers to their computer desktops. The service is free and requires no complicated web plug-in applications. At Purchasing Online, you can literally try them before you buy them.
Online seminars
Later this month, we will launch our second Online Seminar, on the topic of JIT II, the in-plant supplier concept developed by Lance Dixon of bose Corporation. Many buyers took advantage of our Electronic Commerce Online Seminar at the end of 1997, when we had an e-commerce expert on hand to answer readers' questions. For the second seminar in our series, we will assemble a panel of six leading practitioners of JIT II to offer advice to purchasers on the somewhat controversial program. Sitting on the panel will be Lance Dixon, Executive Director of the JIT II Education & Research Center, bose Corporation; Edward O'Donnell, Program Manager, IBM; Michael Leather, Materials Manager, Motorola; Sidney Stupp, President, Process Products, Ltd.; Michael Conley, Director of Marketing, Marmon Keystone; and Steven Frager, Region President, BT Office Products International.
In conjunction with Part II of Anne Millen Porter's "The Power Buy: What you need to know," we will hold our third Online Seminar on the complicated topic of buying power in a deregulated market. Look for our online panel of energy experts in mid-June.
Online job mart
Buyers looking to stay abreast of the purchasing job market should keep an eye open for Purchasing's soon-to-be-released Online Job Mart. Current job openings, career discussion forums, salary surveys, and feature articles will provide buyers with a one-stop resource for accurate and timely information on the state of the purchasing profession.
As always, your comments and suggestions are vital for Purchasing Online's continuing development. After all, who better to fine-tune the site for buyers, than the buyers who use it. Please send all correspondence to Mark Vigoroso at mvigoroso@cahners.com.
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