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Article
Purchasing - Top Stories	Purchasing.com’s most current and important strategic sourcing and procurement news stories. Topics include issues of price and supply for various materials and services.
Purchasing - Strategic Sourcing News	Feed of best practices and case studies in strategic sourcing, purchasing, procurement, and supply management.
Purchasing - Supply Chain Solutions News	News and updates on procurement and strategic sourcing software and other supply chain technologies.
Purchasing - Electronics News	News on electronic component and semiconductor prices, supply and demand for electronics buyers at OEMs, electronics distributors and electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers.
Purchasing - Metals News	Updates on metals prices, supply and demand.
Purchasing - Chemicals News	Chemical and plastics supply and prices updates.
Purchasing - Logistics News	Logistics and transportation news and best practices case studies.
Purchasing - MRO/Indirect Spend News	News and best practices for maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) and indirect materials buyers.
Purchasing - OEM/Direct Spend News	News on strategic sourcing, pricing and demand for direct materials, raw materials and commodities.
Purchasing - Price/Supply News	Frequent updates on commodity prices and materials supply news.
Purchasing - Career/Jobs News	A feed of professional development opportunities for buyers and purchasing/procurement professionals.
Purchasing - Positive Indicator	Purchasing.com’s exclusive collection of data and economic indicators showing the U.S. economy is ready for a rebound.
Purchasing - Popular Pages
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Blogs
Purchasing - All Blogs	Provides updates from all Purchasing.com’s procurement and strategic sourcing blogs including Career Turns, Back to School, Commodities Update, Lessons from the Road and The Global View
Purchasing - Back to School Blog	Updates from a blog focusing on academic and professional development in the supply chain and procurement fields, written by supply chain consultant and professor Richard Weissman.
Purchasing - Commodities Update Blog	Blog updates from Bob Garino of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries on supply, demand and pricing in various commodity markets.
Purchasing - Career Turns Blog	Blog updates on issues of professional development and change within the procurement field, written by Mary Walker, a purchasing agent at a major MRO products supplier.
Purchasing - Government Contracting Blog	A blog about purchasing best practices in the government sector written by Lee Crane.
Purchasing - Lessons from the Road, a global sourcing blog	A blog focusing on the strategies and challenges of global sourcing in today’s supply chain.
Purchasing - MRO & More Blog	MRO & MORE focuses on maintenance, repair and operations sourcing strategies and looks at ways purchasing operations can better control costs surrounding the buy. George Krauter has more than 40 years’ experience in the fields of industrial distribution and MRO purchasing
Purchasing - The Global View Blog	Feed provides perspectives on sourcing and supply-chain management in low-cost countries from consultant Walter Buczynski.
Purchasing - Leadership	LEADERSHIP is a blog covering the skills needed for leadership in purchasing and the supply chain. Lara Nichols has a wealth of experience in supplier management, technology management, risk management, performance metrics and much more. For a full bio, see Profile.
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Video
Purchasing - Purchasing LIVE Videos	Feeds from PurchasingLIVE including various video and multimedia presentations such as the Monday Midday Business Report.
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Podcasts
Purchasing - All Podcasts	In this series of podcasts, editors interview industry leaders in procurement as well as economic analysts and researchers on case studies, pricing and supply and general economic news.
Purchasing - Collaborative Design	This audiocast series presents success stories about how procurement professionals, working with supplier partners, have improved corporate competitiveness by taking costs out of existing designs, helping to improve designs, establishing, meeting, and/or beating aggressive target cost goals, etc.
Purchasing - Purchasing Strategies	In this series of podcasts, editors interview industry leaders in procurement as well as economic analysts and researchers on case studies, pricing and supply and general economic news.
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Resource Center
Purchasing - Resource Center	Get updates on the latest research and product information including white papers, case studies and supply chain best practices.
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Events
Purchasing - Events	Get notified of upcoming purchasing and supply chain events with this feed.
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Hot Topics
Steel Markets, Prices and Costs	Articles, features, news, and white papers covering the steel markets, steel supply and demand, and steel prices.
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What is RSS?

• RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication." RSS is a new way to publish information online, through "RSS Feeds".
• At the heart of the technology is special Web coding, called XML, which displays headlines and information on another page or "RSS Reader". This is a simple way to syndicate content.
• Anyone can use the RSS codes and with the appropriate web software, display the information automatically.

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