Monday Midday Business Report is your weekly market news briefing.
Check out this week's news and key trends:
• Magnesium is getting pricier
• Steel is going up too
• And office copier paper is getting more expensive too
• But buyers are resisting polypropylene hikes
• Microprocessor industry displays so-so performance in ‘07
• Prices for passive electronic components are steady
• While rail volume is down, railroad revenue is up
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Help your company manage its small meetings spend
Please join Purchasing for a free live WEBCAST this coming Wednesday, January 30 at 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern time.
Small meetings: HUGE expense. Procurement Best Practices for a Hidden Spend Category
Industry expert Norm Rose, Senior Corporate and Technology Analysis for PhoCus Wright Inc. will present on procurement best practices for controlling expenses associated with small meetings (50 participants or less).
Attendees to this WEBCAST will learn how to: leverage pre-negotiated rates
Direct business to preferred suppliers, include standard terms and conditions to limit risk, monitor how often suppliers have availability, aggregate small meeting spend and combine it with other meeting and travel spend for greater purchasing leverage.
Click here to register today.
This executive web seminar addresses specific methods and processes your company can implement to address the small meetings challenge.
You will learn how to:
• Leverage pre-negotiated rates
• Direct business to preferred suppliers
• Include standard terms and conditions to limit risk
• Monitor how often suppliers have availability
• Aggregate small meeting spend and combine it with other meeting and travel spend for greater purchasing leverage
Our experts will share their insights on how to manage small meetings outside of centralized meeting planning departments while extending the same level of procurement oversight expected in larger meetings and events.
You’ll discover leading-edge strategic meetings management best practices that will help you to take the next steps for managing small meetings, so you can get a better handle on this important category of expense.
Space is limited. REGISTER TODAY! |
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