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Purchasing Magazine
The magazine of total supply chain management and e-procurement—is read regularly by the world's largest audience of purchasing professionals. It serves more than 90,000 professionals working in manufacturing, process, and service companies throughout the full spectrum of business who read Purchasing Magazine 12 times a year. For over 90 years, more advertisers have selected Purchasing Magazine to convey their sales messages to purchasing pros, more than any other medium.
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Purchasing's Medal of Excellence
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Magazine Awards
Purchasing Earns 3 National Awards
Editors of Purchasing Magazine received three national awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors. Winning one award is a pretty big deal. No other publication in this field has ever won even one of these national awards. Purchasing received three.
One for the e-procurement strategies' section published June 15, 2000, titled 'Why top execs love e-buying' won as best special section.'
The other for 'Boeing's strategies focus on suppliers' published Aug. 10, 2000 was named best case history.
We also won a national award in the original Web data best category for www.chemyellowpages.com, the electronic version of our Chemicals' Yellow Pages.
Hats off first to Anne Millen Porter , who quarterbacked and wrote a big chunk of the e-procurement report. Anne brings excellent thinking, great writing and suberb organizational skills to each project she handles for Purchasing. All of her talents came to bear in this special section which included 18 articles written by our staff. It was a great analysis of the Internet Gold Rush of 2001, as well as Mike Roach, our very talented art director, who made it look beautiful.
Hats off next to Tom Stundza, one of the giants of metals' writing. Tom wins the national ASBPE award for the Boeing feature, where he leveraged his knowledge of metals into a great strategic sourcing story on Boeing focusing on the recently retired Russ Bunio, one of the legends in American buying. Earlier this year, Tom was named Man of the Year by the Association of Steel Distributors.
ChemYellowPages.com was a collective effort by many hard-working people at Cahners. Our Web listings are updated weekly, as new information becomes available. The print product is updated annually. In www.chemyellowpages.com, distributors are organized separately from producers.
Purchasing Magazine Online: Mark of Best Practice
The Bureau of Business Practice has been defining and providing best business practice information for 80 years. '[Purchasing Online] meets the criteria of quality information in an easily accessible format, and a high degree of usefulness to administrators, management professionals and employees.'
--Bureau of Business Practice
Editorial Advisory Board
Gregg Brandyberry,
Vice President, Global Procurement Systems And Operation,
Glaxosmithkline
Christine S. Breves,
Chief Procurement Officer,
Alcoa Business Support Services
Brad Holcomb,
Senior Vice President And Chief Procurement Officer, Dairy Group,
Dean Foods Company
Richard Jacobs,
Vice President Of Supply Chain Management,
Eaton Corp.
John R. Maclean,
Vice President, Purchasing,
AMR Corp.
Marc Marini,
Managing Director Of Global Procurement,
Merrill Lynch
Mark Mirelez,
Director Of Global Procurement,
National Instruments
John F. O’Connor,
Publishing Director Emeritus,
Purchasing Magazine
John Paterson,
Chief Procurement Officer,
IBM
Scott L. Singer,
Director, Global Supply Management,
United Technologies Corp.
Shelley Stewart, Jr.,
Senior Vice President Operational Excellence And Chief Procurement Officer,
Tyco International
Karen Weinstein-Millson,
Vice President, Global Sourcing,
Boston Scientific
Roger Weiss,
Vice President, Materials And Supply,
Rockwell Collins
Commodities Council Members
John Anton,
Global Insights
Ron Bishop,
Bishop Market Research
Lloyd O’Carroll
Davenport and Company
Brian Matas,
IC Insights
Bill Mcclean,
IC Insights
John Mothersole,
Global Insights
Timna Tanners,
UBS Investment Bank.
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'Purchasers have more information, sophistication, and respect than ever before. Companies are putting their best and brightest people on procurement patrol.' -- Sales & Marketing Management
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'What used to be a corporate backwater is becoming a fast-track job as purchasers show they can add millions to the bottom line.' -- FORTUNE Magazine
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'In leading-edge companies the 'purchasing agent' is all but extinct. He's been replaced by a sophisticated manager who is part of the strategic-management team.' -- Industry Week
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'Partnerships with suppliers have helped Chrysler improve performance significantly by speeding up product development, lowering development costs, and reducing procurement costs, thereby contributing to increases in Chrysler's market share and profitability.' -- Harvard Business Review
Purchasing Magazine provides purchasing and supply chain management professionals with how-to-buy information to perform their jobs, including forecasts, proprietary data, strategic sourcing ideas, and interpretive articles written by an experienced staff of editors. Scope is global, but primary focus is on the U.S. and Canada. Coverage includes all products and services; special editions cover electronics and technology, metals and the chemical process industries.
Purchasing Magazine is published every month. Guidance is provided by an editorial advisory board that is a Who's Who in supply management.
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