Keeping up with Purchasing Online

By Staff -- Purchasing, 5/6/1999

The job of the purchasing professional is getting easier. With the help of crucial economic and strategic information at Purchasing Online (www.purchasing.com), buyers are sharpening their edge in negotiating, cost-cutting, and supply chain management. The site is constantly evolving to provide busy buyers with the information they need as quickly and as thoroughly as possible.

Pricing and market data, forecasts, news bytes, plus supply strategies for metals, chemicals, electronics, energy, transportation, computers and peripherals, office products, MRO supplies and more make Purchasing Online an indispensable tool for staying on top of market trends.

A searchable back-issue database spanning four years supplies targeted purchasing information instantaneously. An expanding wealth of online-exclusive features make time spent at www.purchasing.com all the more productive. Some current and future Web highlights you won't find in the pages of the magazine include:

* Metals Sourcing Guide Online: Metals buyers can source mill products, metal parts, 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: Later in 1999, chemicals buyers will be able to use our improved 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 Purchasing's new 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.

* Crystal Ball Economic Forecast. Online entry form allows buyers to beat the snail-mailers and submit their forecasts instantaneously. A notebook computer (or cash equivalent) will go to the buyer with the most accurate forecast.

Purchasing Online continues to compliment the valuable information offered in Purchasing Magazine. Point your Web browsers to www.purchasing.com, and bookmark Purchasing Online. Purchasing's Internet Editor, Mark Vigoroso will be conducting live demonstrations of Purchasing Online at this year's napm exhibition in San Diego. Visit Booth #514 for a personalized tour of the site.

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