Key Metrics and Supply Alert
Staff -- Purchasing, 6/21/2001
- PURCHASING Magazine and the Cahners Supply Chain/OEM Group are hosting a two-day online conference and tradeshow, October 17-18. During this FREE event, enjoy all the benefits of attending an industry tradeshow, right from your desktop. No traveling, no expenses, no wasted time ... just valuable seminars, product information, networking—everything you'd find at a traditional conference or tradeshow—but on the Web. Keynote speakers are Thomas Stallkamp, CEO of MSX International and former president of Chrysler Corp., and James McNerney, CEO of 3M Corp. Register today at www.supplychainlinkexpo.com and qualify to win prizes: laptop, digital cameras and cash!
- Semiconductor sales keep slipping. Worldwide semiconductor sales totaled $13.72 billion in April. That's down 10.2% from $15.28 billion in April 2000 and 5.8% from March 2001. Weak chip demand reflects the inventory correction than began in fourth quarter 1999, according to SIA President George Scalise. SIA forecasts that chip industry sales will decline 14% in 2001.
- Intel says it will ship chipsets for its Pentium 4 microprocessors that support PC133. To date, Intel's chipsets support only Rambus DRAM .
- Purchases of semiconductors used in digital handset computers, personal digital assistants and two-way pagers will double by 2004, according to market research firm IDC, which sees sales revenues exceeding $38 billion in 2004 from about $19 billion last year. Reason: Global shipments of handset computers and other smart handheld devices are expected to rise to 63.4 million by 2004 from 12.9 million in 2000.
- Post resumes for free at www.purchasing.com. As a service to readers in the current economy, PurchasingMagazine will post resumes on its Web site. Please e-mail resumes to Ryan Vemmer at rvemmer@cahners.com.
- DaimlerChrysler says it used the Covisint online automotive trading exchange to host 80 separate auctions over a four-day period resulting in $3 billion worth of contracts for five international suppliers. The 1,200 parts sourced in the May auctions will be used by Mercedes-Benz at its Tuscaloosa, Ala., plant. Johannes Rudnitzki, head of purchasing for passenger cars at Mercedes-Benz, says the auctions saved time. "If we had been involved in a conventional tendering procedure, it would have taken about three months to negotiate with these foreign suppliers," he says.
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