THE Web site for purchasing professionals
By Staff -- Purchasing, 4/22/1999
Prominent on the Net-surfing itineraries of savvy buyers is the electronic arm of Purchasing Magazine, Purchasing Online (www.purchasing.com). The site is constantly evolving to provide purchasing pros at all levels the information they need as quickly, comprehensively, and easily as possible.Pricing and market data, forecasts, news bytes, and supply strategies for metals, chemicals, electronics, transportation, computers and peripherals, office products, MRO supplies and more make Purchasing Online an indispensable tool for staying on top of market trends.
Four years of Purchasing archives draw droves of purchasing pros to our searchable back-issue database. And an expanding wealth of online-exclusive features make time spent at www.purchasing. com all the more productive. Some of the newest Web highlights on the site include:
* Bookstore: Choose from a library of vital buying reference volumes and place credit card orders through a secure transaction server.
* Pricing Services: Receive transaction price histories and forecasts for metals, chemicals, plastics, paper products, electronics components, and more instantaneously through your Web browser.
* Buying Strategy Forecast: Subscribe online to our semi-monthly market intelligence newsletter. Available in printed or electronic format.
* Metals Sourcing Guide Online: Metals buyers can source mill products, metal parts, local service centers, and processing services with our newly revamped Metals Sourcing Guide Online. Find qualified suppliers and distributors more efficiently than ever before.
* Chemicals Yellow Pages Online: Chemicals buyers can use our online directory to locate chemical producers and distributors, custom and toll manufacturers, suppliers of containers and other packaging, transportation services, and environmental/ hazardous-waste services and equipment.
* ICE-Alert newsletter from market analysis firm Thinking Cap Solutions. Read excerpts from the strategic manager's comprehensive guide to emerging price, cost, and demand trends in U.S. manufacturing. Make more informed buying decisions with the help of this exclusive information.
* Online Career Center helps ambitious buyers stay on top of their game. Salary surveys, discussion forums, a searchable database of job opportunities, and an ongoing career development online seminar provide a one-stop solution to buyers looking to keep abreast of the evolving purchasing profession. Coming soon: Subscribe to our Career Advisor newsletter online.
* Online seminars present panels of industry experts who offer sound, practical advice to visiting buyers on topics including energy buying, Just-in-Time II, and career development. Look for upcoming seminars on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, electronics distribution, and more.
* Commodity Exchange will provide buyers with seamless connections to some of the leading commerce-enabled supplier Web sites. Rather than wasting time combing search engines and portals for qualified suppliers on the Web, purchasers will be able to source and buy MRO supplies, electronic components, metals, chemicals, and more from our pre-screened suppliers and distributors.
* Purchasing Pulse provides a glimpse of the prevailing sentiment among buyers on a broad spectrum of topics, from the economy, to e-commerce, to the Y2K issue. Visit the Pulse and let your voice be heard.
* Our Crystal Ball Economic Forecast online entry form allows buyers to beat the snail-mailers and submit their forecasts instantaneously. A notebook computer will go to the buyer with the most accurate forecast for 1999.
Navigation menus make finding targeted data as easy as one mouse-click. From pull-down menus on our home page, buyers can choose their own market category and immediately jump to timely information relevant only to that market. Buyers also have instant access to supply strategies like integrated supply, e-commerce, and outsourcing.
Purchasing Online continues to compliment and expand upon the valuable information offered in Purchasing Magazine. Point your Web browsers to www.purchasing. com, and bookmark Purchasing Online.
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